You are bidding on building a website with an underlying discussion forum.
1. The frontpage of the site will look similar to google or bing, simple with very few options, information for the user is static. Depending on the users action on this page the user will be guided to the correct thread. Users can create new threads from the frontpage.
2. For forum software should be Disqus ([login to view URL]) or similar
3. User should be able to identify themselves through any login possibilities disqus offers, but not post anonymously.
4. On every discussion thread page there should be a button which can be copied and used by anybody that permalinks directly to that thread.
5. All discussion thread pages will have a simple graphical theme that is easy to recognize as 'ours'. Simple, minimal user intrusion.
6. I will provide finished graphics, logos, icons, layout sketches, ui flowcharts, domain name, required databases, hosting etc for the entire site, only programming skills is required to bid on this job.
There are one more point to the site but that is the business idea so i would rather not disclose openly, factor in 25% more time than the other points combined for those last one as it should not be that difficult to complete. It involves making a php script which returns an image based on a refferer url. Depending on how the elegant the solution of the last piece of the puzzle will be it may be required to mess around with some apache stuff how our webserver responds to queries for files. Its not very complicated, if even i understand it a programmer will eat it for breakfast...
Im looking for a dedicated programmer, this may be a longtime project depending on how well we do the initial job. You should be creative, problem solving and able to speak good english, availiabilty on skype during CET daytime/evenings are a huge pluss. This job does not have a short deadline, its most probably 1 month into to future before startup.