Background:
Bioflorida is the nonprofit state trade organization. Originally a phpnuke website was built for the organization in 2000. Though functional through 2004 the site was riddled with security flaws and did not have the ability to accept credit cards.
A local ISP and developer “volunteered/bartered” to provide a new CMS site based on Phpwebsite (see phpwebsite.net for details) with the amember transaction gateway for a new site.
After delays, and communication issues the site was “turned” over to bioflorida. The site was found to be dysfunctional and ISP to be less that helpful. The decision was made last month to transition what we have on the current site to a new Drupal based site hosted by Site5.com.

Current Status:
Bioflorida.com & .org are hosted with www.plhbhosting.com, PhpWebsite, MySQL, Amember, and the secure cert are installed and the site is 97% operational as is. There is FTP access, and Hsphere provides the remaining site and server access. The ecommerce portion is operational but we are receiving user complaints.
Site5 is the hosting provider for the new Drupal site. In addition to “standard” server and files access through their (nice) UI we have shell access (jailed shell) via putty. Drupal 4.6.0 is installed, and operational. Amember is installed, the secure cert is installed, and the Drupal module for Amember is installed. Volunteers will transfer (cut and paste & htm files) from the old site to the new site – so scope of work will not include content transfer.
Scope of Work:
Configure the Drupal theme (look and feel) to emulate the old PhpWebsite theme. In plain English clone the site from the old PhpWebsite software to the new Drupal software. It’s my belief the old PhPWebsite theme consists of these primary files:
Theme.tpl, theme.php, and steely.css. (available for your review)
Additional files do provide support functionality.
Within Drupal a theming is different, there is an engine (php code) and these primary files:
Adc.theme, style.css, and associated graphic files and some js files. (available for your review)
The time consuming task will be to map the css styles from one to the other and tweak php code where and when necessary. While I imagine the php coding to be 25% of your time you’ll need to carefully test and comment what you have modified. So expect to put some time and thought into what you do in PHP. I expect the consultant to take their time and understand all ramifications of any php code modification and perform thoughtful explanations and comments.
Expectations:
If you can produce 90% clone that will be great! There is plenty of follow up work for the successful consultant. Remaining tasks will be more challenging and interesting in terms of programming and graphic design/layout. The existing javascript menu may not migrate perfectly. Let us provide a specification for the menu before spending any time on it. Don’t spend any time on modifying graphics we’ll be changing them slightly anyway. Don’t agonize over tiny variations in font and spacing. Get the general color scheme and layout done then we’ll go back and tweak.

Contract:
You can provide your standard contract or we’ll provide one – both parties will review the contract until satisfied. We will check your work and progress constantly in the beginning and communicate thoroughly until a level of comfort and understanding is reached. Once we establish you “get it” the communication will diminish in frequency.

Payment:
Any form we are both comfortable with. We as a client are very high profile and will treat you with professionalism at all times. Company check is best as we are subject to strict audits, we have a company credit card as well. Invoices are required for payments. We’ll require the standard Federal Tax ID or SS number for a 1099 as well as all contractor contact information.

Contact greg@ltcc.com for details

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greg2’s picture

This contract is finished - Thanks