jaronoff · December 28, 2015 01:09
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 JoshAronoff.com Reqs for Developers
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 **Background:** 
 I'm a designer for the web, specializing in UI and UX Design. Over the last year, I've been learning (or trying to learn) Ruby and Rails so that I can make my own app ideas a reality. It's been slow going to say the least.

 I have an immediate need to update my existing portfolio website. I'm looking for work, and my current implementation is stale and doesn't reflect how I want to be presented on the web. It's ok, but it can be better.

 I'm moving away from Wordpress or traditional CMS models because it will force me to learn Rails quicker, but in the meantime I need help.


 **What I Need:**
 The site should be responsive. I will provide wireframes but a lot of the breakpoints and stuff I'm hoping we can account for with the Foundation gem.

 I want my new implementation of my site to integrate with the following:

 * Written in Rails, pushing updates to a repo on github for my review as we do the work.
 * I want to blog using Markdown files, maybe using Jekyll or some other static page generator. I'm open to suggestions.
 * Behance ---> Using their API. Im using Behance to push all my projects (Finished and 'Works in Progress') so that I can use their network effect for visiibility of my work. Only makes sense to use their API so I dont have to update in two places.
 * The following pages:
 	* An About Page.
 	* Portfolio Page: url siteurl.com/work or siteurl.com/portfolio with a thumnail view of all projects, maybe a filter for the specific fields of discipline.
 		* Individual Project Pages -- Thinking: /portfolio/this-would-be-the-name-of-project or /work/this-would-be-the-name-of-project
 	* A resume page. --- I'd like to be able to add to this, and then also create a pdf file with the contents of this page, thinking either XML driven or something. Not sure. But I want to be able to update it frequently and have it create a pdf to go with it.
 	* Blog -- Probably a list of articles, posts, or whatever.
 		* Individual Blog posts. -- > May want to create seperate kinds of templates to handle these posts, depending on what I want to create.

 **Gems I'm thinking of using:**
 *  Foundation Gem - https://github.com/zurb/foundation-rails
 * High Voltage Gem - https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage
 * Behance Gem -- We may need to extract this and create it. I'm all about contributing back to Open Source, so if this is something you'd like to do, have at it.
 *  Google Web Fonts Gem - https://github.com/misopeso/google-webfonts-rails
 * More as needed.

 **What I will provide**
 * Compensation, of course.
 *  Photoshop mockups of the individual pages with data elements needed. These will be iterative as we develop as I MAY want to switch things up.
 * The ability to add to the project with HTML and CSS and some ERB as needed for partials, etc.
 * If we're successful, the beginning of a long term partnership, where we can build things into the future as we want. I CONSTANTLY have app ideas and it would be great to partner with someone who could help.
 * A background in Design and Usability for your other apps etc that you may need help with.

 **What I need from you**
 * What was outlined above.
 * The ability to self manage your time and scope of work and push back if it's outside of original scope.
 * An time and cost estimate based on the above scope.
 * Contact information (email and skype.) I will do most of this correspondence via email, but we will probably need to work via Skype sometimes.
 * An active GitHub account. I want to see what else you're working on, to evaluate your ability and drive in pushing code.
 * Recommendations after we're at a place to launch, of good webhosting for Rails apps and some help with deployment. I get hung up on "pg-gems" on Heroku, so you'll need to handle some of that as the needs crop up.

 Thank you in advance!! Let me know what you think of this. Comment if you're available to help!

 ~Josh Aronoff
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	JoshAronoff.com Reqs for Developers
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	Background:
	I'm a designer for the web, specializing in UI and UX Design. Over the last year, I've been learning (or trying to learn) Ruby and Rails so that I can make my own app ideas a reality. It's been slow going to say the least.

	I have an immediate need to update my existing portfolio website. I'm looking for work, and my current implementation is stale and doesn't reflect how I want to be presented on the web. It's ok, but it can be better.

	I'm moving away from Wordpress or traditional CMS models because it will force me to learn Rails quicker, but in the meantime I need help.


	What I Need:
	The site should be responsive. I will provide wireframes but a lot of the breakpoints and stuff I'm hoping we can account for with the Foundation gem.

	I want my new implementation of my site to integrate with the following:

	* Written in Rails, pushing updates to a repo on github for my review as we do the work.
	* I want to blog using Markdown files, maybe using Jekyll or some other static page generator. I'm open to suggestions.
	* Behance ---> Using their API. Im using Behance to push all my projects (Finished and 'Works in Progress') so that I can use their network effect for visiibility of my work. Only makes sense to use their API so I dont have to update in two places.
	* The following pages:
	* An About Page.
	* Portfolio Page: url siteurl.com/work or siteurl.com/portfolio with a thumnail view of all projects, maybe a filter for the specific fields of discipline.
	* Individual Project Pages -- Thinking: /portfolio/this-would-be-the-name-of-project or /work/this-would-be-the-name-of-project
	* A resume page. --- I'd like to be able to add to this, and then also create a pdf file with the contents of this page, thinking either XML driven or something. Not sure. But I want to be able to update it frequently and have it create a pdf to go with it.
	* Blog -- Probably a list of articles, posts, or whatever.
	* Individual Blog posts. -- > May want to create seperate kinds of templates to handle these posts, depending on what I want to create.

	Gems I'm thinking of using:
	* Foundation Gem - https://github.com/zurb/foundation-rails
	* High Voltage Gem - https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage
	* Behance Gem -- We may need to extract this and create it. I'm all about contributing back to Open Source, so if this is something you'd like to do, have at it.
	* Google Web Fonts Gem - https://github.com/misopeso/google-webfonts-rails
	* More as needed.

	What I will provide
	* Compensation, of course.
	* Photoshop mockups of the individual pages with data elements needed. These will be iterative as we develop as I MAY want to switch things up.
	* The ability to add to the project with HTML and CSS and some ERB as needed for partials, etc.
	* If we're successful, the beginning of a long term partnership, where we can build things into the future as we want. I CONSTANTLY have app ideas and it would be great to partner with someone who could help.
	* A background in Design and Usability for your other apps etc that you may need help with.

	What I need from you
	* What was outlined above.
	* The ability to self manage your time and scope of work and push back if it's outside of original scope.
	* An time and cost estimate based on the above scope.
	* Contact information (email and skype.) I will do most of this correspondence via email, but we will probably need to work via Skype sometimes.
	* An active GitHub account. I want to see what else you're working on, to evaluate your ability and drive in pushing code.
	* Recommendations after we're at a place to launch, of good webhosting for Rails apps and some help with deployment. I get hung up on "pg-gems" on Heroku, so you'll need to handle some of that as the needs crop up.

	Thank you in advance!! Let me know what you think of this. Comment if you're available to help!

	~Josh Aronoff