Alumni Site

[login to view URL] I want to create an alumni site for my alma mater, which consists of seven institutes (originally five and more are being added ??" possibly as many as twenty in the next few years) under a common umbrella.? These are considered some of the best institutes in the world.? For more information see the Wikipedia article at <[login to view URL]> and you can also Google it ??" you will find a lot of information. ## Deliverables [login to view URL] I want to create an alumni site for my alma mater, which consists of seven institutes (originally five and more are being added ??" possibly as many as twenty in the next few years) under a common umbrella.? These are considered some of the best institutes in the world.? For more information see the Wikipedia article at <[login to view URL]> and you can also Google it ??" you will find a lot of information.? This project is divided into two parts.? I am looking ideally for both by the same person, but if you can do one or the other and your price is right, I may use multiple bidders.? Part 1 ??" Email system.? I want to be able to provide individual emails such as <xyz@[login to view URL]>? I would ideally like someone who can host this as well, or find me a host where the incremental cost of the emails is zero.? I want an automated system where when someone’s registration is approved by an admin, an email account is also created.? In Part 2, they also get a personal home page (see below). Part 2 ??" Website.? Here people get a personalized home page which can be dynamically generated from a database.? There should be provision for at least the following on each homepage: * standard links to LinkedIn, Facebook, their company etc.? * standard bio data items such as name, major, year of graduation, residence hall etc. * Links to groups or institutions that they belong to or want to promote (So a link with a short one-line description) * some pictures, some descriptions (i.e like a simple one page biography). * I may ask you to add a couple of fields to the list above ? The following (between ********s is optional ??" let me know what it will cost to do this separately) ******************************They should be able to add “friends?? ??" similar to Facebook, which then get listed on their page.? They should be able to make their homepage visible to all or only to site members or only to friends. ****************************** Members of the site should be able to send messages to each other.? The web site should be searchable for individuals based on any of the above fields and even a generic text search would be nice to have. Apart from the above there should be about a dozen pages including a site homepage, a page for each IIT, careers, news etc.? I will be adding more pages (or you will be if we develop a good working relationship), so the design should be flexible to accommodate that. ? A registration page will be required where they enter in their details ??" assume about 6-8 fields they will fill in so we can verify if they actually graduated from an IIT. For example, they can give me a link to their LinkedIn page or some other public page that shows they actually graduated from an IIT.? Or they can provide an email address of someone who is already a member, and that member will vouch for them.? You should create some interface for approvals and for people to reply to messages. I want the site to look good!? It doesn’t have to be very fancy, but I want it to look professional.? Important: It should have place for banner ads/Google Ads etc. I am looking for suggestions and features beyond what I have described.? However, I want to get this up and running quickly so an initial site can be simple, but with the categories and areas to which I can add later.? It is OK if you cannot provide all the things I have listed, but as part of your bid, you must tell me what features you are providing.? I will want to continue development on this project, so I am looking for someone with whom I can have a long term relationship. I am a little bit flexible on the technology, but if you do it on Windows, I will prefer ASP Classic.? I am willing to go with ASP.Net (VB) as well.? On Linux, I will prefer PHP.? Flash is also OK, but not required.? HTML must be strongly dependent on CSS, so I can make site-wide style changes. Please send me links to sites you have worked on.? The time-line is not flexible so please do not bid if you cannot finish by December 15th (preferably sooner). * * *This broadcast message was sent to all bidders on Monday Nov 24, 2008 5:50:13 AM: Regretfully no bidder has given me a solution for Part I. Also no one has addressed any of the optional stuff I asked for. I am extending the deadline and as well as the timeline to see if I can get any more reasonable bids.