Website Designer Needed for Fresh, Professional Facelift

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[/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Edit.com is seeking an experienced designer that can provide a fresh, professional face-lift for our website. We are hiring for design, not architecture, nor coding, nor even html.

Quick facts:
Final deliverable should be design files, i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator, or the like.
Timeline will be tight and rigorous—two weeks from start to finish. We aim to kick off the project by October 10 (4 days from now) and have it complete by October 21. Only NYC area designers will be considered.
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Qualifications and Experience Required
Track record of client satisfaction, superb references
Experience doing service-business websites
Experience ranges from consumer to professional – I.e. able to do visual design for a hybrid of the two
Superb design skills such that the design will support the Edit strategy and brand of a trustworthy, service-oriented business.

Please address the following in your response:
What experience do you have with services (not product) offerings?
Provide relevant example urls to view past work. Do not simply email me your website.
Hourly rate or high level estimate for the web design only.

Scope:
Website design
Key Pages/ deliverables
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[*]- Home page

  • Secondary page: About Us
  • Secondary page: Our Customers - tons of quotes
  • Secondary page: Products and Services - List of products, prices (click to buy) and Product listings to expand with detail on that offering if clicked
  • Secondary page: Contact us - need look for a chat interfaces, need look for submission form for more information
  • Other pages: Slightly different look/ feel (difference color scheme?) for partner mini site
  • Image and/or Graphic treatments that communicate action, our line of business and who we serve
  • Several call out styles, e.g. ways for Edit to promote various elements such as customer profiles
  • Three treatments for three different areas of the site (simple differences, e.g. color)
  • Button styles
  • Icons (?)
  • Text styles
  • Three tiers of headers
  • Call out style (e.g. for customer quotes)
  • Bullets
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    Other items for future design and development, but not within scope:
    Logo design
    Possible if recommended by designer and can sell us on the concept
    Web banners (advertisements)
    Direct mail pieces (print)
    Visual guides, other design elements/ colors etc.
    Collateral
    Brochure – one final design for b-to-b usage
    Letterhead, envelopes, b-cards etc.
    Email standards and templates

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