Friday, January 11, 2013

Purposal Documents for new site


Many times we need to send a proposal documents to our client as a negotiation before starting any project.
Here is sample proposal document for a drupal site.
You can  copy and change it according to your project domain.



Project Title
Website design and development for a shipping company.

Project Description
The project will involve designing a website for shipping company. The website will be designed to the very highest standard and will reflect company’s established corporate identity.
We will use Drupal, an open source content management system (CMS) which will allow you to easily add content such as products & services, about company etc. with text and images to the website with a minimum of technical knowledge, within a tightly defined design framework.
We will design the site with Google in mind, however using search engine optimization (SEO) is strongly recommended at some stage, in order to maximize the number of visitors to the site.

Scope of the Project
We would undertake to do the following:

1. Design of homepage look and feel, theme, layout and layout sections client suggestions.
2. Content Management System (CMS) - For editing text and images on web pages.
3. Design of up to 20-25 static pages for company, company’s services, and fleet’s details like technical specifications, specific fields, design & capacity fields, everything controlled by backend CMS.
4. Display of dynamic contents like news, press release etc. controlled backend CMS.
5. Cross - Browser compatibility.
6. Mobile Compatibility.
7. Creation of contact / enquiry forms, if required. Where enquires can be sent on email as well can accessible via admin side.
8. Search engine optimization: SEO friendly URL & automatic Meta tag selection.

Note: Manual Meta tag Keywords and other SEO is not included in this quote. Let us know if required.
9. Basic user helps to understand CMS. (PDF, Discussion, Admin module for help).
10. Remote training with advances CMS features, delivered via Skype of other online media.

Technical Matters
PHP CMS Drupal will be used for website. Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. Drupal can be used to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications. It’s large library of inbuilt and contributed modules provide qualitative functionalities in less time.

Refer: http://drupal.org/

http://drupal.org/about

Other technologies:

Theme design – HTML, CSS

Interactivity – Jquery, JavaScript

Scripting Language - PHP

Database - Mysql
Web server - Apache

Project Flow
Project design theme will include the different pages of the site with navigational structure. A detailed description of each web page designed via backend CMS.

Project Time Span
We would anticipate the project taking 100 working hrs (2 weeks) to complete.

Terms and Conditions
Each open source CMS tends updates it’s functionality and new enhancements and releases new versions for both CMs and it’s contributed modules, So we need to be updated with newer versions in as a maintenance work.

After Delivery Services
After delivery services includes version upgrading for CMS and contributed modules, theme changes, adding new theme to website and other maintenance tasks.



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