I had a membership site built in Joomla, but it is only barely operational and needs a lot of look and feel work done.
There are less than a dozen pages, with a forum, a picture gallery, and a newsletter subscription page. Most of these are operational, but still need some work. In a nutshell, I need the following done...
1. Need the forum edited to mirror the existing forum on an old site, including importing the strings and users from that old Perl-based system.
2. I have a specific look and feel that I'd like to achieve, similar to the current one, but cleaner. It will take some significant editing on all pages.
3. I like support for a week or so in getting all the kinks worked out once the initial look and feel and functionality are good. We'll be importing a few hundred users to start to help us out finding any oddities.
The site was built using an open-source app called Joomla, but I'm not committed to this. I've already spent far more money than I was hoping to on this project and am still far from being done. If you know another solution that would save time/money in the long run, but still give us a great membership site, please suggest it.
## Deliverables
1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.
2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):
a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment.
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## Platform
UNIX server, PHP, MySQL.