We are looking for a creative graphic designer to create an engaging and unique Drupal 7 Theme for our website. Please read below and the attached pdf for comprehensive information about this project:

This Request for a Proposal is for two projects as follows:

Project A: Wireframes and Photoshop files to be designed with the following requirements in scope:
-Create a robust Drupal 7 Theme capable of utilizing the bootstrap framework with full XHTML compliance and responsive cross-platform support. This custom Drupal 7 theme should be designed with Drupal 8 in-mind.

Project B: Cut and Code the site as a Drupal 7 theme
-HTML5/CSS, PHP, Web 2.0 semantic markup and jQuery rendering engine, JavaScript + jQuery for client side scripting and AJAX calls.
-SEO optimization should be embedded within the theme (content source ordered, native support for RDFa, HTML5, ARIA roles and very clean SEO friendly code.)

-CMS = Drupal 7 (this is mandatory).

-Framework = Bootstrap 3 (this is preferred)

-Create Drupal theme and user experience.

-Site will consist of three pages each using Single Page design. There should be consistency of feel throughout the three single pages.
Page 1 = Branding
Page 2 = User Dashboard
Page 3 = App Store that contains a Shopping Cart

Project A Deliverables: Wireframes, Photoshop files and all other necessary files so that the Drupal developer can develop the Drupal site theme.

Project B Deliverables: Code for the entire Drupal 7 theme (HTML5/CSS files, PHP Drupal 7 Theme, etc.)

-Project should be designed with the following requirements in scope:
*Create a robust Drupal 7 Theme capable of utilizing the bootstrap framework with full XHTML compliance and responsive cross-platform support.

*All code (including source code), mockups, designs and wireframes will be owned in-full by our company.

-Drupal designer will be responsible for creating a unique Drupal 7 Theme for our site. This will consist of the front-end design.

-Designer will be responsible for wireframes and graphic designs with mockups approved by company personnel.
*There will be several iterations between us and the designer in-which feedback will be given and revisions made based on the feedback.

-Responsive Website (not adaptive).
*Website should work consistently across major OS (Mac OS, Windows and Ubuntu) and major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer).

*****PLEASE READ BEFORE BIDDING*****

-Please note that our company (based in California, USA) already has an IT team that performs all back-end coding. The company's Chief Technology Officer is leading this project.

-For this project, we are looking for a highly experienced and very creative Drupal Theme Designer to design the theme for a groundbreaking website.

-Please email drupal@sequencing.com if you are interested in this project in-order to receive a comprehensive Project Specifications document.

-This is likely to be significant after work once the website is launched. We hope that if this project with the Drupal designer goes well then there may be a number of additional on-going projects we will want to continue working with the Drupal designer on.

-Once a CDA is signed, we will send you a more comprehensive Technical Specifications document for the Site as well as a Marketing Brief.

-The project must be completed within a predefined amount of time.

Request for Proposal
-Please provide a Proposal and two separate price quotes (one for Project A and another for Project B) as defined in this Project Spec.
-If you do not have the experience to complete Project B then please just provide a proposal and price quote for Project A.
-All proposals to be fixed-cost.
-All proposals are due by 6p PT Wednesday, May 21.

**Please email drupal@sequencing.com for additional information or to submit a proposal. Please make sure to include links to Drupal themes you have designed.**

Comments

Jaypan’s picture

One comment, there is no forward compatibility with Drupal 8 from Drupal 7. Drupal 8 uses an entirely different templating engine (twig vs. phptemplate), and there is no upgrade path between D7 and D8. Sites need to be rebuilt in D8, and content is imported.

John_B’s picture

The task throws up some interesting issues.

To all intents and purposes what Jaypan says is true. Theoretically the Drupal 7 theme engine is still supported as a 'fallback', though very little is said about this, and it is difficult to tease out of the discussions (https://drupal.org/node/2004872) what this means for a real-world D7 > D8 theme conversion without using the new 'twig' engine. Aside from the handful of people deeply involved in this aspect of core development I do not think anyone knows the answer yet. Indeed, anyone preparing a proposal for this project would probably be well-placed, after writing the proposal, to provide the rest of us with a tutorial.

The whole issue (as the backend team on this project no doubt know) is that render arrays are still in Drupal 8 core, but Crell's campaign to kill off the page array is by no means over, and this may have implications for the long-term survival of phptemplate as a theme engine.

Anyway, I know this is not the correct forum for this discussion. It just caught my interest.

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