Joomla Website Design working from a template

We require a web designer with extensive Joomla experience to work with us in designing and building a dog breed information website. As well as offering a top class portfolio you will be able to offer ideas for our sites look and feel during this design phase. (This is our first attempt at working with Joomla) The site is hosted at [login to view URL] The site will be based around a pre-purchased template. You will be required to ensure the template has been installed correctly and adjust where necessary, re-arrange modules and layouts to suit the new site design, and then work with us thru the fine tuning process. The site is an open web site… no user log in is required. It is a simple information site… no ecommerce or databases. You will be building template pages which we will then populate with articles. The page types will include an index page, article page, news manager page, contact page, and information pages, as outlined below…. The index page build involves manipulating the index template to suit our needs: new logo, changing the login section to a Google ad words box, creating html editing areas… layout supplied as a pdf. The articles you will be building will consist of 2 dog breed article pages, (from pre-existing articles supplied in html format), by copy and pasting text, removing the formatting and re-formatting with <div> containers and building a css doc, or incorporating the css into an existing css doc. Example of page layout supplied as a pdf. These pages will then be used as templates for future articles. Included at the bottom of these pages will be a Jcomments module, allowing users to submit and share their experiences. We require a Kpactcha module to be installed for this page. The news page will be derived from the News Manager. The contact page will be a standard Joomla module that you will advise on. You will be required to ensure the page works with the server’s mail exchange. The information pages are straight forward html docs. You will be required to build these pages with the appropriate Joomla user header and example content, which we will populate at a later stage. For an experienced Joomla designer this job is very straight forward. We have tried to supply as much information about the project as possible to allow you to bid accurately. We are open to design suggestions and improvements, if you know of a way Joomla can be used to further improve the site please don’t hesitate to tell us. Undoubtedly you will be approached after the project’s completion to help with further enhancements. PDF’s and a full design brief are available upon request. With the Xmas holiday period upon us we are not expecting miracles to have this job completed within a certain time frame.