Web Site Design - Web Design / Hosting Services

**Client:** Web Hosting Company **Required:** New Website - Main Page; Template for Content Pages ** Summary:** The company wishes to promote web-design and web-hosting services to the North American marketplace. Winning bidder will be supplied with necessary information. **Specifically:** The site should appeal to owner / operators of small and medium sized businesses who do not currently have a website. These visitors will be able to: (1) Choose from three Hosting Solutions - specifics of each will be supplied to the winning bidder by the Buyer. (2) View a library of recent design work. (3) Purchase Design and/or Hosting Services online - no programming is required; we have the shopping cart but will require design work to "contain" our cart. **Our market:** (1) Continental United States and Canada **Design Elements - Logo: ** Two resolutions of the logo are required - (1) For use on the web; (2) For use in print - newspaper; laser printer; glossy brochure; business cards **Design Elements - Website: **(1) Color selection for the site has not been made. Preference is for a white background with design elements positioned amid lots of space. We do not want the space to be cluttered. (2) Placeholders should be put in place to accomodate banner advertising down the left margin and the bottom. (3) There are 3 Site hosting packages, they should be presented as three panels in the centre of the screen. Buyer will supply content and content will change over time. (4) Any pictures used in the website should be royalty free and should represent our client base -- average owner / operators who seldom wear business suits and ties. (5) The site should not have a futuristic look to it. It should look approachable. ## Deliverables 1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done. 2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables): a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment. b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request. 3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement). ## Platform (1) This site will be managed within a content management sytem. Preference is for a navigation bar that is text-based and positioned horizontally under the main banner. (2) This site will use .html and ASP.NET. (3) ASP solutions will not be accepted. (4) Flash design welcome; Embedded flash only.