Ok... it seems that this is a harder task than I had at first expected, so we have regrouped our expectations and will leave the Zombie Fluxx page as the top of this site for a while, and put up the cool AJAX stuff down the road once we have gotten it built. So... if you might have been interested in this if there wasn't a short deadline to get it done, please let us know! This page is just a mockup: <http://fluxxgames.com/fluxx.html> - to show what I have in mind - it does not need to (or want to) look exactly like this... Anyone who would be interested in some part time hours helping us with various aspects of our web sites, please email us to let us know what you are good at and what you would charge for your time. The first project is this FluxxGames.com stuff, but other projects will follow in the months and years to come... who wants to help us rebuild/redesign our web sites? -Kristin --On August 28, 2007 Kristin Looney <web-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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) _______________________________________________ Geeks mailing list Geeks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/geeks