New Website Design and Implementation

The Climate Response Fund is sourcing a company or individual who can both design and implement a new web interface for our current website at climateresponsefund.org. Our goals for the redesign include: - A professional look. - Moving various content to database storage and entry so that the site can be updated easily. - Providing administrative pages for each of the content types to facilitate entry. - Moving the content towards the homepage to create a more dynamically changing experience. - Providing consistent RSS feeds for news, press, blogs, etc. - Incorporating external news feeds into the site. - Adding content areas, such as: recent scientific papers, videos of climos scientific presentations, etc. - Adding calendars of upcoming events which also have “ical?? or other standard calendar formats that can be searched and added to a personal google calendar. ## Deliverables the existing website is at [login to view URL] it is a placeholder that describes the organization Data sets include: - Blog postings - Press releases - Climate Response Fund publications - External publications Journal articles Books links to copyrighted material - Press on Climate Response Fund - Climate Response Fund weekly news feed - Videos of Climate Response Fund presentations - Calendars Climate Response Fund Events Other Events related to climate intervention and geoengineering - FAQ - Email registration to be notified of upcoming announcements - Jobs Design guidelines: - Designs should be fixed width, probably no less than 700 and no wider than 950 - Designs should reflect the professional, scientific and environmental nature of the organization. - Our focus is on display of information, choice of font, structure of whitespace and appropriate use of color and small icons or graphics is key. Sites we like elements of: <[login to view URL]> <[login to view URL]> <[login to view URL]> - The homepage should include Links to primary website areas (below) Recent Press to produce a combined summary of recent postings. These should show the title and a few sentences from the beginning of the body. A continuously updated list of external stories collected from relevant RSS feeds Featured documents - Staff page and Advisors pages should show photos for individuals as well as short snippets of bios. - Designs should use various strategies to make the site visually appealing, such as shadows and appropriate highlighting. Primary sections of Climos site: - About - Climate Response Fund personnel - Climate Response Fund Board of Directors - Climate Response Fund Advisors - Recent Press - Climate Intervention News - Reference - FAQ - Links - Contact Bidders should bid on either the design or implementation or both. Migration of existing site is to be included in your bid. Current website is hosted with Aplus.net. Pls, no Microsoft technologies.