By John Rodat on

I've got a list of site improvements that I'd like to make to www.signalhealth.com. We'll characterize these as V.1.1. Some of them require discussion and educating me. Some should be pretty straightforward. The site uses Drupal (V.4.5), MySQL, Apache. I'm located in New York and New Hampshire. Successful work and a successful relationship doing V.1.1 will lead to more substantial work on what I'll characterize as V.2.0 and to an ongoing contractual relationship for small tweaks and for maintenance. Being able to do the technical work is obviously essential. Working collaboratively is important. I would also prefer someone or a small group creative enough to learn where I'm going with the site and to suggest enhancements that I may not have thought of.

Here's the general picture. The immediate needs are outlined below for V.1.1. But I'm also designing a much more elaborate framework for V.2.0. This may involve paid subscriptions, a fairly complex group membership authentication scheme that would allow different users access to different content. This would require considerably more effort than my immediate priorities and so taking care of the immediate would also allow the developer/s and me to develop and test a working relationship.

Here are the immediate high priorities for V.1.1:

  1. I want to start podcasting. And I don't just mean embedding sound files in blog posts. I want users to be able to subscribe and have it download automatically. If I understand correctly, that means an upgrade to v.4.6. My current sense is that these should go into a new section entitled "Voices" (with the link just below "Contributors Commentary" and perhaps into commentary as well. I may need some MySQL help here too as I've been unable to upload any .mp3 files directly to the site.
  2. Enable users to sign up for automatically generated e-mails when there is a new:
    • Commentary (blog post)
    • Comment
    • Podcast (for those not yet ready for RSS after number 1 is complete)
  3. Add RSS for Comments
  4. RSS for podcast
  5. Implement the Scheduler module so that Contributors can write up stuff in advance and have it publish on a schedule
  6. I started working on a “classics” page, then got distracted. And since then, I saw the e-publish module which may do a better job of what I was trying to accomplish. But I need a bit more info on how that works and what it does. I've heard that module has problems, but I'd still like to accomplish something like it. The idea is that a new site visitor who's not famliar with the taxonomy scheme and links can go to page/s where I've collected posts relevant to a particular topic.
  7. There may be some other small items that come up during the work

Those are my most immediate priorities.

The bigger step (V.2.0) would come a bit later and would give me and certain contributors that I authorize the ability to post material (such as blog posts) that is only available to authenticated users and/or authenticated users who are members of particular groups.

Please contact me directly with an indication of your experience and an estimate of time and costs for the items listed above. At some point, I will require references.

Thanks.