Website Refresh Project - Designer to Prepare Proposal and Pitch

Website Refresh Project Develop a new website to replace existing, re-use of existing content where appropriate, and improve conversion to sales leads with lower bounce rate. The current site developed over 8 years, gets 8k visits per month, has high SEO, so transitioning to the new site should maintain current position. Selection of a freelance web designer or agency, to: - Review our website design brief - Prepare and submit initial proposal - Schedule screen-sharing and phone pitch session to management team [ this freelancer project & milestone is ONLY for the proposal and pitch stage ] After pitches, we will select a short list of candidates for next stage. Skills and Experience: - Design and Implementation of modern websites - Visual, Artistic, Photographic graphic design experience, - Layout, Font, Color, Image selection, style consistancy design experience - Sitemap structure, backbone, link flow structural website design experience - Minimum of 10 previous website projects (currently live for review) - Good technical understanding of website architecture, with and without CMS - PHP, MySQL, Linux, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript technical skills - Strong SEO understanding and experience, page names, titles, meta tags, H1s - Experience designing responsive (desktop, mobile, range of browsers) sites Please rate experience and strengths in each of these areas with evidence. The current site developed over 8 years, gets 8k visits per month, has high SEO, so transitioning to the new site should maintain current position. [ Bidders may request PDF project brief document ]