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Feb. 9th, 2005
This is a professional offer involving my workplace (and in fact, a project i'm on), there will be (agreed-upon) payment.
Basically, we have a web application implemented in Java (JSP/Struts), that does a small-scale version (some specific tasks) of our core application (written in VB6). it involves a LOT of DHTML work, so familiarity with that will help. It is fully compatible with Mozilla and IE6. All of the colors and fonts are in external CSS files, or will be when I get around to finishing a clean-up.
What it does have, however, is a very rough look, color-wise, inherited from an earlier project's codebase it was built upon, and a lot of "stock" icons (small 20x20 or so) from various sites including those that come with apache httpd and the java "metal" look and feel set. they work as reasonable placeholders during our "alpha" state, but aren't appropriate in the long run. The fonts aren't perfect, mostly because I really don't know all the "names" of what's out there that might be appropriate. Most of what the user will see will be tables of raw data, with bold and italic fonts as threshold indicators, and icons and basic form elements to do processing. This is a real web application (as in an application that happens to use web technology), not a "brochure site" like most of the web is.
In addition to this main app, we also have a "dashboard" reporting and metrics application set written using technology from Business Objects's Application Foundation. This system has some very particular requirements in "skinning"; its not as easy as just changing an html template or a css file. One of the things we're trying to do is get our app in this package and our own web app to try to look relatively seamless (though we know pure seamlessness is impossible -- look at it as trying to get "my yahoo" and "yahoo mail' to be relatively the same even though there are necessary differences due to the data being presented). If necessary, we could do the work to get the dashboard system in line with the java-based web-app, but in working out the styles for the web app itself, the restrictions placed on us by the dashboard need to be kept in mind.
So what I'm looking for is someone who really knows CSS to help us with the overall look of the system, in terms of colors, fonts and minor layout changes, and someone to help with graphic design for actually making icons, buttons, and logos (all mostly manipulating the logos we already have) to fit that look (and still be appropriate to the actions they represent, which may be pretty abstract) and other semi-stock patterns of things like "tabs" for navigation (a-la amazon.com's navigation, assuming they haven't patented that too). Preferably both in the same person.
They won't need to know DHTML/Javascript directly (I'm the one who's built all of that), but should understand how DHTML puts some limits on the CSS. Even if they don't know all the technical details of "hovers" or "tooltips", familiarity with them for the purposes of selecting appropriate colors and patterns would be good; I can handle the technical implementation. Again, we use CSS for all mouse-over effects, not javascript, though using javascript for an image rollover isn't ruled out; whatever seems best I'm fine with.
This work would probably take no more than 2 or 3 days, a week at worst, to be done in or near the middle of march. I would need to screen the candidate's portfolio, and preferably the person should be local to the DC area (the office is in Fair Oaks by the mall) so they could work with me directly. An on-sight interview within the next week or two would be ideal so that they can see the system and decide how and what they could contribute to it.
Please send resumes to me at shelbyj at teoco dot com.
Basically, we have a web application implemented in Java (JSP/Struts), that does a small-scale version (some specific tasks) of our core application (written in VB6). it involves a LOT of DHTML work, so familiarity with that will help. It is fully compatible with Mozilla and IE6. All of the colors and fonts are in external CSS files, or will be when I get around to finishing a clean-up.
What it does have, however, is a very rough look, color-wise, inherited from an earlier project's codebase it was built upon, and a lot of "stock" icons (small 20x20 or so) from various sites including those that come with apache httpd and the java "metal" look and feel set. they work as reasonable placeholders during our "alpha" state, but aren't appropriate in the long run. The fonts aren't perfect, mostly because I really don't know all the "names" of what's out there that might be appropriate. Most of what the user will see will be tables of raw data, with bold and italic fonts as threshold indicators, and icons and basic form elements to do processing. This is a real web application (as in an application that happens to use web technology), not a "brochure site" like most of the web is.
In addition to this main app, we also have a "dashboard" reporting and metrics application set written using technology from Business Objects's Application Foundation. This system has some very particular requirements in "skinning"; its not as easy as just changing an html template or a css file. One of the things we're trying to do is get our app in this package and our own web app to try to look relatively seamless (though we know pure seamlessness is impossible -- look at it as trying to get "my yahoo" and "yahoo mail' to be relatively the same even though there are necessary differences due to the data being presented). If necessary, we could do the work to get the dashboard system in line with the java-based web-app, but in working out the styles for the web app itself, the restrictions placed on us by the dashboard need to be kept in mind.
So what I'm looking for is someone who really knows CSS to help us with the overall look of the system, in terms of colors, fonts and minor layout changes, and someone to help with graphic design for actually making icons, buttons, and logos (all mostly manipulating the logos we already have) to fit that look (and still be appropriate to the actions they represent, which may be pretty abstract) and other semi-stock patterns of things like "tabs" for navigation (a-la amazon.com's navigation, assuming they haven't patented that too). Preferably both in the same person.
They won't need to know DHTML/Javascript directly (I'm the one who's built all of that), but should understand how DHTML puts some limits on the CSS. Even if they don't know all the technical details of "hovers" or "tooltips", familiarity with them for the purposes of selecting appropriate colors and patterns would be good; I can handle the technical implementation. Again, we use CSS for all mouse-over effects, not javascript, though using javascript for an image rollover isn't ruled out; whatever seems best I'm fine with.
This work would probably take no more than 2 or 3 days, a week at worst, to be done in or near the middle of march. I would need to screen the candidate's portfolio, and preferably the person should be local to the DC area (the office is in Fair Oaks by the mall) so they could work with me directly. An on-sight interview within the next week or two would be ideal so that they can see the system and decide how and what they could contribute to it.
Please send resumes to me at shelbyj at teoco dot com.