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title: "Redesign of Bingo Card Creator main site — interested?"
date: 2008-02-02T02:37:08-06:00
author: Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
permalink: "/2008/02/02/redesign-of-bingo-card-creator-main-site-interested/"
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I’m hiring again, on a project unrelated to the last two.

Details are on <a href="http://www.elance.com" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.elance.com']);">eLance</a> &#8212; I needed a bit more robust response to this offer than I got the last time I advertised a web design job here, but that is likely because my timing was poor and my blog has been dead for a while.  It took me forever and a day to figure out how to get a simple permalink out of them, but eventually I abused their &#8220;mail description to a friend feature&#8221; to do so.  Here are the <a href="http://www.elance.com/job?jobid=13305683" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.elance.com']);">details</a>.

In a nutshell:

I&#8217;m going to need someone to make a 1 page template to cover a merge of <a href="http://www.bingocardcreator.com" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.bingocardcreator.com']);">Bingo Card Creator</a> and <a href="http://www.dailybingocards.com" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.dailybingocards.com']);">Daily Bingo Cards</a>.  DBC has been fairly successful and I want to fold its pages into Bingo Card Creator, which will provide Bingo Card Creator with some badly needed updated content on a daily basis and will allow me to use the much, much higher link juice pointing at BCC to rank DBC&#8217;s cards.  None of this specifically requires me to have a new design, naturally, but I figured as long as I was going to have to edit every page on a website might as well use the opporunity to make it look pretty.  And I&#8217;ve got some revenues around from January to do it with.

Details:

  * <div>
      The market is overwhelmingly female, 30-40s, and non-technical.  The design needs to be bright, clean, and inviting to this audience.  I like Web 2.0 aesthetics, such as you&#8217;d find at <a href="http://www.crazyegg.com" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.crazyegg.com']);">CrazyEgg</a>, <a href="http://www.blinksale.com/learn" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.blinksale.com']);">BlinkSale</a>, or the like.
    </div>

  * <div>
      The basic layout of the page isn&#8217;t changing much: header, horizontal navigational categories, sidebar moves to left, main content area.  The main content area is divided up into sections (similar to the current Bingo Card Creator home page).
    </div>

  * <div>
      The main content area should take up most of the space on the page, similar to how it does currently. 
    </div>

  * <div>
      Target for 1024&#215;768 resolution. 
    </div>

  * <div>
      The design will have to showcase black and white bingo cards, of substantially similar appearance (including size) to the ones currently on Daily Bingo Cards.
    </div>

  * <div>
      New buttons for the free trial and purchasing links, as well as any others you feel are appropriate.
    </div>

  * <div>
      You&#8217;ve got a free hand to use or ignore any previous icons/banners/etc.  I am paying for your visual and design expertise, so do what you think is best.  It is my personal opinion that the current banner is too large.
    </div>

  * <div>
      I really, really hate stock photos of random people.  No visual element can suggest that Bingo Card Creator is related to gambling in any way &#8212; bingo balls, etc, are out.
    </div>

You can send a bid and portfolio to (my first name)@bingocardcreator.com or you can respond through eLance, whichever you are comfortable with.  I&#8217;m thinking in the general vicinity of $300 &#8211; $500 and completion in under two weeks from project acceptance.  (I am fairly responsive with change requests, and don&#8217;t imagine there will be that many.)  As usual, I don&#8217;t particularly care who you are, where you live, etc &#8212; if you can follow instructions well enough to get the job done that is good enough for me.