Project Detail

Description

We market a personality style test in hardcopy. Recently we had an artist revise the hardcopy version and we have this in a PDF file. We now want to set up an online version that people can take online.

What we have in hand now:
- The test which is about 3 pages in length. We have set this up and working in PHP coding on a Dreamweaver page. Our present version records the scores and adds up the totals.
- Interpretation pages which are around 20 or so pages (however we will do most of the work with transferring them onto templates; your job is outlined below). We will be adding more on our own later using the template you design.
- We are online and the site contains Joomla already installed. We will probably purchase an additional domain name and install this inventory there.

What we need:
- The creation of a Joomla-based CMS to support this test. Content to include:
- Creation of a simple template page (pastel background with a logo somewhere; we want to participate in deciding on and tweaking this); and a simple navigation bar with about half a dozen buttons.
- A frontpage/welcome page that is made with the graphic from the cover of our hardcopy book. We will provide the graphics file which our artist has created with In Design, the Adobe software. You will put that on the frontpage and make clickable the five to seven circles that already exist on that graphic.
- Registration/login page, supported by a data base that: a) autosends to users an email with their login/password so those who don’t get through the whole thing in one sitting can log on again later; b) takes basic information from registrants at time of registering (age, gender, location, educational status, occupation, cultural background) and records this data along with scores.
- Option for users to click and send a copy of their scores (and if easily done, an option to choose several other pages) to one or ideally several other people.
- A field for users to sign up for our listserve
- Payment page with simple shopping cart for users to place orders (to purchase hardcopy, rights to reproduce, or proceed to the test
- Set up the test on the template pages. This will involve transfering our already PHP-coded test onto the template you create. You must also take a graphic we will provide from our hardcopy and convert it into a clickable 5 point answering panel. You can write new coding if you want, or use the existing PHP coding. What matters is that the website add the answers up and give a total score at the end. We want you to do the text and the coding and the scoring setup. The scores appear on a chart that our artist has designed (and this chart will occupy its own page).
- We will provide all text in Word or Dreamweaver documents for the above. We want you to put them on pages based on the template so it is easy to work with later. We will edit and add to the pages later with Dreamweaver or an online editor.
- We want things set up, if possible, so that users cannot easily access our test for free by bypassing the payment page. Some kind of cloaking of URLs perhaps?

If we like the partnership with whomever does this, we will be interested in an ongoing relationship for maintenance and additions. We have further plans for the site as time and revenue allow.
We are not absolutely committed to Joomla as we’ve not invested in learning it. But it is already on the site and we read good reviews of it. We are fairly tech-savvy and do basic stuff ourselves. What we need is someone to get the system up, choose the right extensions and install them for us, and tie the whose system together, etc.

An additional optional job:
An addition we will want soon is the following. If this is complicated, you can leave it out for now. But if it is not difficult, include this in the bid. Please indicate whether your bid includes this optional job. If your primary bid does not include the optional job, but you want to add a second bid for this optional job, please do so.

Optional job: Add a page to our interactive personality style website that brings an additional function. We want instructors and professional organizations to be able to purchase rights to use our inventory in lots of ten, one hundred and one thousand. They would then be able to grant users access to our system until the rights purchased are exhausted. We can think of two ways to do this:
1) Purchasers type in the email addresses of users. Users then are issued an automatically generated password/login by email.
2) Purchasers are issued one login that enables ten or one hundred people to login before expiring.

In both cases, purchasers should be able to login at any time and see a record of where things stand, i.e.: how many rights to use remain unused.

We prefer to give our purchasers the choice of both options and would like to have bidding done with both options present. We are also open to bids for only the first option if that reduces our cost significantly.