Have website; need theme/solution that preserves existing design & editability

Hello all,

I’m a professional web designer with a specialty in CSS. A client whose site I created and launched is now initiating Phase 2 for the project: the integration of CMS functionality behind the existing design. The client’s static website is located at www.appnexus.com.

In addition to maintaining the integrity of the current design, it’s crucial that the underlying CSS/HTML can be easily edited (by me) so we don’t have to bring someone in each time a page’s layout needs tweaking. While I know a little PHP, I have no knowledge of the inner workings of MODx or any other CMS system, and I’d actually like to keep it that way as much as possible — without sacrificing my ability to access and edit the code I’ve created.

The budget for this project is not expected to exceed $5,000; we’d like the CMS-integrated site to be up and running 2-3 weeks after we hire a developer. If you’d like to be considered for this project, please include in your proposal an estimate of how long it will take (in days or weeks) as well as a cost estimate.

Interested? Questions/comments/advice? Please reply to this post or email me at [email protected].

Through this project I hope to build a relationship that will extend to future CMS development opportunities.

Thanks and all the best,
Suzanne O’Kelley
[email protected]

Update:

The client is now considering including their wiki in the migration process, currently located at https://wiki.appnexus.com/display/documentation/Home. If the wiki is included in the new MODx build, it should share the look & feel of their corporate website (at www.appnexus.com). Of course it can maintain its own internal navigation structure; we’d just want it to flow more naturally into main AppNexus website. Unlike the corporate site, I won’t be tampering with the design/layout of the wiki once it’s been set up.

If you’re bidding, please let us know whether you can include the wiki in the build within the alloted $5000 budget.

Thanks so much,
Suzanne

My advice knowing a little bit about what’s going on with MODx is to not integrate the wiki for now and wait for things coming in the 097 branch.