Seeking Developper

Classic General
1

Hello, as expressed in my introduction in a different post, I have a site “contrasttours.com” which was developed several years ago using RW5. It is all in flexible mode, but not responsive.

It is also almost all done in stacks, and also nearly all with the Blueball Element Stacks.

I would prefer staying on the RW platform rather than going for one of the other well known offerings. Is anybody interested in bringing this site up to speed? With compensation.

I own RW 8, but have a hard time even transferring my project to RW 8, and then I would need coaching about how to best use the new features, the nth version of Stacks etc.

In short, I need an RW web developper to put me back on the rails.

You can email me directly at clic@jean-christian.net if you are interested by the “challenge.”

Thank you.

2

Before you rebuild anything I would suggest sitting down with a piece of paper and re look at your requirements other than just getting this to be responsive.
Example of things to think about.
Blogging with or with out video
membership
booking and how to manage via forms

when ever I have to redo a site I look at all of this then I have a plan of what needs to be done.

Lovely site by the way great photos

1 Like
3

Hello Scott,

Thnak you for your comment. I am a professional photographer, and so my tendency is to keep it simple with photography, and no video. That’s a little bit against the tide, but how I feel. In general, I want things to feel genuine, and not too slick.

For now I mostly need:

  • The project to be in RW 8 or later so that I can work on it on my newer Mac (64bit)

  • Updated to responsive.

  • Design re-visited to give more space to photography, with probably text available through expansion (as in Instagram for instance)

I am very open to input about design.

Is this something you’d be interested by?

4

Hi Jean-Christian,
I’ve had a look at your site and realized that it has a lot of pages, images and text information on it. A complete re-design and re-build of your site will definitely be needed to make it ‘future-proof’.
This would be a huge undertaking and for sure a lot of work (several days). I don’t know if you have already thought about the budget available. In my estimation, you shouldn’t expect to get this revision for less than 1,500 euros, probably more.

5

Hello Matthias,

Thank you for your comment. I don’t need most of the previous pages (previous tours) rebuilt. A good portion of these old pages can remain in the old RW project, and be accessible from the new RW 8-9 project via mirror pages.

What needs to be a redesigned, is:

  • The Splash page
  • The Upcoming Tours page
  • a page for a new tour
  • A page for Dinners, the previous dinners can stay in the old RW5 project.

And at this point I should be able to take over.

Is this something you would be interested to undertake?

6

I’ll have to think about it for a moment; in principle I’m leaning towards ‘yes’… (if we agree on some things) :wink:

What is good is that you’ve built most pages with Stacks, which makes the transition a bit easier. You say that you did use the “Blueball Element Stacks”. So these ‘officially’ seem to be the “Freestack Stacks” from Charlie Lockhart, right?

Nowadays, we would say that this is a ‘framework’. The ‘Freestack Stacks’ were actually the first framework on the market and way ahead of their time.

Nowadays, of course, they are outdated, so these stacks (and probably most of the other stacks used in the project) would have to be replaced by another framework or other stacks.

This raises the question of which framework should be used (I personally would no longer use a conventional ‘theme’).

There are currently several high-quality and recommendable frameworks to choose from, such as ‘Foundation 6’, ‘Foundry 3’ or ‘Source’. I myself have been using Foundation 6 exclusively for many years and if you were to place an order with me, I would insist that you use this framework.

This is my website, where you can also see the last 30 to 40 websites that I have created with Foundation 6: Web-Portfolio - WOLF websolutions GmbH

In addition to the cost of my work, you would have to buy Foundation 6 and upgrade to Stacks 5.

Then you would have to decide whether you want to create all content in RapidWeaver as before or whether you want to use a CMS (like Total CMS). This could save you some work in the future, even if the initial outlay is somewhat higher (and you would also have to buy the licence for the CMS for your domain).

If you are interested in having me take over the revision of your website, we can also discuss everything else via email.

By the way: For several reasons I would suggest to have an SSL certificate for your website… :wink:

1 Like
7

I would say if your doing this use one of the following and not necessarily in this order Foundation, Foundry or UiKit all are great frameworks. I would highly recommend Total CMS and use it everywhere not just for blogs. If you are thinking of memberships etc add sitelok to this.

Then you will have a great site and keep you going for years.
@RapidBase seems like a good choice for helping you.

1 Like
8

Hello @contrast, thanks for your email. I just sent you an answer…
Best wishes from Germany,
Matthias