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I'm soliciting bids for a complete online store design for a sole proprietor jewelry business. The proprietor is looking to expand from her well-established Albuquerque Old Town storefront business into online sales.
The end customer very much likes
Coldwater Creek's design and UI.
Requirements:
- "Mac-like" UI design (rounded corners, simplicity, navigability)
- Nearly identical experience in FF/IE.
- Tabbed main jewelry "families".
- In each "family" tab, tiled jewelry thumbnails that, when clicked, expand into the main window with details like length, weight, materials, multiple views of the piece.
- Ability to add to cart either from thumbnail view or detail view.
- Search function that permits searching on any of the details (like "length between X and Y" or materials).
- Checkout that provides thumbnail view of what you're purchasing, line price, gift options, shipping options (CWC's design for this is excellent).
- Database frontend that permits easy stock management and uploading of new pieces.
- Database design that scales.
- Modular, well-commented code that's maintainable: while I can't write this myself, I expect to be maintaining it on a continuing basis, and I want it to be heavily documented and cleanly coded.
The site will be hosted on Dreamhost using a MySQL database.
I'm a newbie at this kind of thing, so please contact me with any questions I didn't answer or basic facts I neglected to include.
posted to MeFi Jobs by scrump
at 10:17 AM on May 4, 2008
Nominum, a global provider of IP telephony, DNS, and DHCP solutions, is seeking a senior technical writer for an
immediate full-time staff position in Redwood City, California.
The position is as a senior member of Nominum's technical documentation team and will share responsibility for documenting Nominum's products.
Successful candidates will relish working in an extremely dynamic environment with competing priorities, and one in which the writer operates with a high degree of autonomy. Applicants with working knowledge of Internet architecture, especially DNS, DHCP, IP telephony and/or SIP, are
strongly preferred.
Successful candidates also get to work with scrump and tangerine. It's up to you whether you consider that a benefit.
Required Qualifications:
- Working familiarity with the practical details of DNS and DHCP.
- Experience documenting Internet software.
- Expertise with Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 (7.2 preferred).
- Comfort producing PDF, HTML, text and DocBook products.
- The ability to work comfortably with minimum guidance in both Unix and Windows environments performing a wide variety of online tasks, some of which may be new.
- A team worker and strong leader who enjoys working collaboratively, is comfortable asking questions, and can interact exceptionally well with a wide variety of technical experts.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Skill with graphics design programs (preferably Paint Shop Pro), and a proven ability to create high-quality diagrams and graphic representations of abstract concepts.
- Experience documenting and using Java, perl and Python.
- Real-world current knowledge of XML.
- Experience generating online help using Quadralay WebWorks.
- Experience with version control applications, particularly CVS or Subversion.
Be prepared to provide access (online access preferred) to a portfolio of recent work.
scrump and tangerine's crib notes:
- tangerine: "I think the most important thing to emphasize is the constant state of flux. If you can construe that as a plus, you'll like it here. Otherwise you'll be frustrated and miserable".
- scrump: "This is in no way an entry-level position. You should have a minimum of 5-10 years of TW experience or the equivalent: if you don't, you'll need to be a blow-the-doors-off candidate."
- scrump: "We're crazy, but not bad crazy."
More helpful self-screening:
Scenario 1: You've been working for a week and a half on a complex product that's in development. You've been getting into the meetings as much as possible, but you're largely taking your marching orders from your boss, who attends meetings so you don't have to. You're just starting to really understand the product. At 11:00 this morning, your boss tells you that the product is undergoing some sweeping code changes that will have subtle to major changes on the product's documentation. Your reaction is:
A. "God, that's so typical. Why can't they make up their minds on this? I mean, they're just going to change it again tomorrow. God. I've got so much work to do on this already, and now, with this change...I'm going to have to change THIS, and change THAT, and then there's all THIS over here, and I just don't see how we're going to get it done in the time we have, and this is SO TYPICAL. God, I hate this. I mean, a whole week, down the drain!"
B. "Well, that's a fascinating new direction. So we're going modular with it? Okay. I understand why we'd want to do that. Hm. It's going to change the product like this and like that, right? Okay. How stable is this, really? Stable? Okay. I'll have to change this, and change that, and then there's that other part, but we can do that with conditions. We can do that in the same time, but we won't get to review first: is that okay? Okay."
C. "Oh, wow, that's a huge change. Okay, if I work late I can still get it done in time. If I work weekends, we can have a review cycle! No, no problem with the deadline, I'll make sure it's done! I was only here until 11pm four times last week, how can you say it's a pattern?!"
A: You will hate it here.
B: Call us RIGHT NOW.
C: You will hate it here.
posted to MeFi Jobs by scrump
at 3:02 PM on May 18, 2007
Nominum, a global provider of ENUM-based IP-Application Routing Directory, DNS, and DHCP solutions, is seeking a specialist in documentation work flow for a contract position in
Redwood City, California.
The contractor will work with Nominum's technical documentation team and engineering staff on a specific project to define and implement a methodology to create a work flow that takes advantage of a single documentation source from which multiple destination formats are programmatically generated.
The position will be responsible for:
- Defining a documentation input format, taking into account work already existing at Nominum, but not constrained to that format.
- Defining the steps required to take text from input to desired destination formats.
- Identifying suitable tools for assisting in the work flow so that manual intervention is limited.
- If necessary, implementing tools to accomplish intervening format conversion steps.
The input format will be defined by the contractor. The output formats must
include:
The output must include indices and tables of contents for longer documentation collections. Ability to combine files from different sources into one final output is desired (such as, a file shared by many destination documents combined with files unique to the destination, or files from different source trees combined into one destination document).
Input format must not require a proprietary tool; something based on ASCII text is required. Input will be created on a variety of platforms and OSs. Tools for generating output can be either Unix- or Windows-based.
This contract is expected to last from one to three months.
Be prepared to provide access (online access preferred) to a portfolio of recent work.
scrump's handy crib notes:- This is so not an entry-level thing. Be a ninja. We're really smart people, and we couldn't figure this out.
- We don't need theory: have boots-on-the-ground experience implementing this sort of thing, preferably several times.
- Expect to have your work scrutinized by our exceedingly picky and smart engineers.
- The solution must accomodate our business processes. The converse ain't happening.
- Please don't inflate your abilities. That way lies madness, and you really won't get the job.
posted to MeFi Jobs by scrump
at 9:13 AM on August 28, 2006
Nominum, a global provider of ENUM-based IP-Application Routing Directory, DNS, and DHCP solutions, is seeking a technical writer for an immediate full-time staff position in
Redwood City, California.
The position is as a member of Nominum's technical documentation team and will share responsibility for documenting Nominum's software products.
Successful candidates will relish working in an extremely dynamic environment with competing priorities, and one in which the writer operates with a high degree of autonomy. Applicants with knowledge of Internet architecture, especially DNS, DHCP, and ENUM, are strongly preferred.
Minimum Qualifications:- Experience documenting Internet software.
- Expertise with Adobe FrameMaker 7.
- Comfort in producing both PDF and HTML products.
- The ability to work comfortably with minimum guidance in both Windows and UNIX environments doing a variety of online tasks, some of which may be new.
- Team worker who enjoys working collaboratively, is comfortable asking questions, and can interact cooperatively with a variety of people.
Desirable Qualifications:- Skill with graphics design programs (preferably Paint Shop Pro), and a proven ability to create high-quality diagrams and graphic representations of abstract concepts.
- A working familiarity with the practical details of DNS and DHCP.
- Experience documenting and using Java, perl and Python.
- Real-world current knowledge of XML.
- Experience generating online help using Quadralay WebWorks.
- Experience with version control applications, particularly CVS or Subversion.
Be prepared to provide access (online access preferred) to a portfolio of recent work.
scrump's crib notes:- This isn't an entry-level position. You should have a minimum of 3-5 years of TW experience: if you don't, you'll need to be a blow-the-doors-off candidate.
- Did I mention this isn't entry-level? We need someone who's been doing this for a while.
- We're interested in unorthodox candidates, because in our experience old-school Writers (a la IBM, HP, etc), with the Documentation Plans and the outlines and the being used to deadlines that don't change weekly...they don't do well here. Unusual people who can handle a very fast, results-driven environment tend to do well.
- I will read your posting history on MeFi if you contact me, and it will, for better or worse, form part of my impression of you as a candidate. Keep that in mind when applying.
posted to MeFi Jobs by scrump
at 1:18 PM on August 25, 2006
