Paid Drupal services

Hello, I'll be paying to have you build a custom news-based site with the hope that it can be released to the community for free, as the foundation for developing and expanding the possibilities with drupal and news sites. This will include both coding and theming, so just a heads-up.

Please excuse the bad visio diagram trying to illustrate my idea here: http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/4431/17024162eq2.gif

Ok, let me get to explaining my idea (feel free if you want to work on this to suggest your own changes/ideas.

I think to have the strongest base to work with the project should be completely controlled from the administrative panel, and all the necessary functions should be changeable through admin.

(Here is where I begin to talk out my ass, correct as necessary) I think the general page layout can be setup through some modification to the panels module (http://drupal.org/project/panels) which is great because it would allow you to easily move all the content around on the page by pressing up/down and right/left arrows.

When content is added it needs to be put in to the proper box and I think this can be controlled by Node queue. (http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue)

The primary links I'd like as drop-down menus. Nice menus should be enough (http://drupal.org/project/nice_menus).

Independent consultant looking for professional graphics/web designer to complement my development skills with the creation and maintenance of client web sites, graphics, logos, etc. A long term working relationship is preferred.

Please include the following information:

• Portfolio
• Skills
• Rates
• Availability

james at oslx dot com

I've been studying and using Drupal for the last 6 months and feel fairly comfortable with basic development. But as you can imagine, need some consulting support as specific client challenges come up.

CHALLENGES: I currently am developing 3 Drupal sites (with my own following). So I expect a few more issues arise (like file management by user - not role). But currently, I have been spending the last 2 weekends in front of drupal.org trying to solve my registration process issue.

My client wants a simple multi-page questionnaire that leads to multiple registration forms. Each form automatically assigns the user to a role.
The user_autorole module gets me 90% there. It allows me to create registration forms (and links) based on "rolesets".

So, basic nodes (the questionnaire) lead to these different roleset links (like, user/register/client and user/register/advisor). When the registration form is completed they automatically get assigned to that role (client or advisor).

But both registration forms need to be different. So, the problem I am having is that I cannot change the content on each form. I've created ALL the content needed for both forms via the profile_module. But everything shows up on the user/register/client AND user/register/advisor links.

A news-blog (registered users can leave comments).

A blog for every approved user with post ratings (only registered users can rate a post).

RSS for each of the blogs.

A forum.

A catalog with pictures for every item. Registered users can rate items, leave comments.

User Friendly URLs.

Custom design for everything.

can this be done? if so how much?

I am planning to build a community site (that is, I need blogs, groups, comments, questions/answers, my profile page etc). I want to use druapl 6.1. Basically the website should look like www.teamsugar.com. If you have the experience building a similar site, please let me know. Give me a quote as well.