We need a professional programmer to create a CMS script for a coupons/deals site that is better than bradsdeals dot com.
You can offer your own idea on what would be the best for the project, offer a plan and we can work from there the changes. Some things we're looking out for are:
-Web 2.0 style and pleasant and professional.
-Layout should enable easy reading, enough space for content.
-Appearance and layout should be easily changeable, (like applying themes).
-No complicated skinning feature needed, but might offer winner another paid job at customizing appearances in future.
-Colour of text and links should be easily changeable in CMS without coding HTML or knowing CSS.
-Places to put ads or custom featured content.
-Navigation Makes sense and user friendly
-SEO Optimized.
-Twitter Integration (Feel free to suggest what we can do here)
-Visitors able to sign up and log in
-Double-opt in feature
-Logged in users able to customize their favorite stores etc, change their stores that would like to receive email alerts from, tell a friend about a deal/coupon (email will appear from their email with their name).
-Search function, using google search is fine
-Starting Date field for every coupon
-Expiry Date for every coupon
-Expired coupons "Greyed out" when displayed.
-Able to sort expired coupons in CMS and option to delete them
-Able to write articles for featured deals/coupons
-Have good SEO for these titles ([login to view URL]) URLs
-Easy adding of coupons, articles and images.
-Cross browser compatibility
-Comment area for logged in users to comment on article/coupon, no hyperlinking in comments for users, but able to do that for admin.
-affiliate link cloaking, but at the same time URL that is SEO and human friendly.
-system to show coupon code only after visitor has clicked on link to merchant page. (Pop-ups are not preferred as they can be blocked and makes site unusable. Maybe AJAX?)
-area for instructions on how to use coupon etc
-integrated forum for discussions (using open source e.g. phpbb ok)
-contact us page (using php_post, capchta for anti-spam)
-auto generated sitemap
-auto generated rss
-integrated social bookmarking available on every page ([login to view URL] or others)
-ability to utilize datafeeds from [login to view URL] (for price comparisons etc)
Able to Categorize
-By Store
-By Category
-By Printable Coupons
-By Online Coupons
-By __ Days Till Expiry
-By Expire Today
Anything constructive ideas, useful features to have are appreciated.