Thanks Ash for bringing this up here.
I'm the owner/editor for the website (http://www.envynews.com). We're currently moving our site to a new dedicated host. Essentially, it's a site that has a lot of MySQL tie-ins, but more over it's five domains and their respective sites that we're moving as a whole, including some sub-domains which handle our advertising management services.
Moving the site is simple - an IP to IP data copy. Yep, straightforward enough. Even I can do it, and I'm a writer/editor - not a techie. We have a SysOp who has been handling all the data move, dns, MX/A records, apache configs and other changes to do the move, and especially since we're moving from one server overloaded with too many partitions and in a total state of disarray to a new one with the right number of partitions and a better overall layout - datawise.
However, what we need coding support with is the fact that we're not only just moving the site to a faster/better host, but we're launching a second hardware review website and need assistance in getting that working, as well as completing the changes to the existing v5.0 Beta changes to the main site. Lastly, there's about a half-dozen 'bugs' with the interface which is all custom designed/scratch-built, and we have an on-going list of 'desired changes/additions' which my staff and I would love to see incorporated into the front and back-end of the site.
THe ideal candidate will be empowered to make changes w/o supervision, have foresight and vision and especially creativity to suggest changes to better the site and optimize the code and perhaps decrease load/processing times on the site. This is a volunteer position. We don't make enough off of ads to pay for staff salaries - mine included. However there are numerous fringe benefits working for a hardware review website as large as ours. That's all that i'll say for now.
In terms of commitment, we'll require about 20-hrs of work from the candidate to start, spread over a few days or a week, and then once the issues and move are completed, no more than about 1-hour per week.
We require someone post-haste. Yesterday even. Our current Web Developer ('coder') appears to be too busy with life to even tell us that he's too busy with life, and he's left us in a pretty bad spot. If you'd like to find out more info, or even apply for this prestigious position, leave me a PM here on this community, or send me an email to editor@envynews.com.
Thanks!
