Posted by theGreenStandard on January 9, 2009 at 7:22pm
First of all, thank you so much to everyone who responded to my last request to this group. I've found someone to help me build my site in Drupal.
I am also helping the UW Madison Horticulture Department recreate their current webpage (http://www.horticulture.wisc.edu/) in Drupal. I've set up the website but I'm not a designer, so I'm looking for someone to create a nice theme. I'm not sure yet how much the chair of the department is willing to pay. I think it would be between $500 and $1000 depending on the complexity.
Thanks,
Sarah
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TopNotchThemes
Have you had a look at http://www.topnotchthemes.com/ ? With a low budget like that, you might have better luck getting a premade one and adapting it and they do good work.
Michelle
See my Drupal articles and tutorials or come check out the Coulee Region
That is good advice. Buy
That is good advice. Buy something with the approximate layout you want, and then redo the coloring and graphics.
Top Notch seems to be the best for Drupal. But take note that their themes cost $3,400 to buy them out--meaning no one else will get to use them. I would guess an original design would cost a little more.
Can you contract to do something like this through Acquia and get a deal if you buy into ongoing support?
Dan Knauss
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Dan Knauss
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/danknauss
New Local Media :: www.newlocalmedia.com
new theme
Hi Sarah,
I manage an IT web & support group for UW-Madison Dept of Biostatistics and we create & maintain websites and drupal sites for several of our UW customers. If all you need is a theme this should fit into the 500-800.00 range. I am in California right now but will be back in Wisconsin next week. You can call my office at 5-6738 or send email to akapitan@wisc.edu. I can send you samples of sites we have done.
Thanks,
-Andrea
out of curiosity...
How receptive is UWMadison to using open source web applications? Any interesting stories in how that's worked out over the years? How much autonomy do individual departments and divisions have, and how does that work with any central integration (design, data) plan?
MCW put itself entirely on Northwoods' CMS but individual divisions must maintain their own sites through it, or hire external staff (library, I think) to do it or teach them how. When I was a grad student at Marquette everything was pushed to the "IT guys," not exactly efficient or effective. You could add on static html where allowed, with some style guides eventually promoted to stave off the ugliness that had accumulated beforehand.
Dan Knauss
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/danknauss
New Local Media :: Riverwest Neighborhood Network
www.newlocalmedia.com :: www.riverwestneighborhood.org
Dan Knauss
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/danknauss
New Local Media :: www.newlocalmedia.com
Receptive
Hi Dan,
As you may or may not know, UW Madison is very distributed when it comes to IT. I work for the central IT organization (DoIT), but we're working hard to collaborate with our partners around campus. This is mainly happening through a campus group called the Community of Educational Technology Support (ComETS): http://comets.wisc.edu/
While we haven't done much with open source centrally, many departments have, and our central webhosting now offers LAMP as an option. My personal impression is that the campus is receptive, even though there are some integration hurdles yet to overcome.
-john