I am looking for a programmer who can do a little AJAX project for me...
Little rotating graphic and testimonial blocks on the new fluxxgames.com
web site. Payment in games or a bit of cash - this should hopefully be a
fairly simple project.
Looking at this mockup page: <http://fluxxgames.com/fluxx.html> - I want
that top row of keeper images to scroll continuously to the left, running
through all the existing keepers from all the versions of Fluxx - and for
the purple box with one sample testimonial to rotate through a database
full of testimonials - automatically updating at whatever is determined is
the right speed that someone could be watching and reading them each as
they go by... without having to click on anything to make them change.
The front end AJAX piece would be JavaScript and XML - the back end needs
to interface with a MYSQL database with either PHP or Perl, since this is
what is running on our machine and is easy for Craig to plug and play with.
Craig could do the back end, but he is busy with other things, so I would
like to find someone who can do both the database and the JavaScript parts.
Since the length of the testimonials vary from just a few words to even
longer than this example shown here, the font size will need to vary on
each. I was figuring that we would have to pick the font size manually as
we copy testimonials into the database - so a little interface page for
Andy to use that makes it easy to see how each of them is going to look as
he builds the database would be great. Although... how much of a
difference is there between browsers and how they display text? The font
size may be a bigger issue than I realize... Yes you can switch this whole
thing over to use CSS style sheets... these details can be worked out with
the programmer who works on this... but I want the box to stay the same
size, and the text to grow and shrink to fit the space depending on the
length of the particular testimonial.
* I need someone who can do this right away - ideally I would love to
launch this next week when we start taking pre-orders for Zombie Fluxx, but
in reality it will probably take a couple of weeks, and that's ok...
* with that in mind, I would prefer to hire a seasoned programmer who knows
exactly what they need to do to make this happen - even if I have to pay
them cash for it - rather than someone who thinks they could make it work
if they messed with it and would be happy to work for games.
* I can't open up the can of worms of meta tags and search engine
optimization on our main two sites right now (although, yes, we do know
that we need to) but we could do that sort of thing fresh on this new
little fluxxgames.com site. So if the same programmer (or someone else?)
wants to sign on to that job too... talk to me.
If you are interested in this project - please email us offlist with your
thoughts on how you would do this, how long it would take you (both
programming hours and calendar hours), and what you would charge for your
time. (send your reply to web-support -at- looneylabs.com - which goes to
me, Robin, and Craig.)
If you are one of the many fans who has offered to help us with our web
sites over the years, please send us an email again with what you do and
ways you could help... even if you don't have the time or expertise for
this particular project... so that we have your name on a list of
potential fans who we might hire to help work on our web sites going
forward.
-Kristin (she who honestly really is going to update our web sites some day)