Hello Everyone the budget for this project is between 1500 â?¬ and 3000 â?¬ as a start up but willing to leverage over time if I found a solid and long term partner that can update and maintain the site, I am open to break down the project in tasks and further add features and section to keep the initial costs down.
I am looking for a professional developers or even a larger team to help me develop and bring to life a my project at the domain Studying.it; the site currently sits on wordpress and is no more than a simple blog with few articles the idea is to make it a community driven site for students looking for foreigner schools in Italy, art, language, fashion and so on, there are over 500 schools around Italy and a large number of students coming every year to italy, competition is very high and the idea is to create a portal for both schools and students to meet and share information.
The goals of the site are:
1) Having schools easily signing up and advertising through a predefined set of pages for presentation, programs & courses. Courses in the future might be sold through eCommerce functionality based on a commission. Schools should be listed in a directory accessible from the main menu of the site for students to easily and seamlessly search for schools and courses.
2) Create a strong student based community where they can sign quickly on the site also via fbconnect and integrate as much as possible community features for easy sharing and networking (create groups, contribute on the site, offer a marketplace for selling and buying small & big items, forums etc). Building a strong community is the key to get schools interested in listing and selling their courses on the site.
3) Monetize through a local based advertisement program for external services suitable for students and schools, restaurants giving discounts to students registered on the site, travel agencies etc.
4) I would like to create a both direct listing for property owners offering lodging to the students as well as reccomended & discounted rates for listing coming from my current site Firenze Lodging http://bit.ly/9bum1z and others of the same breed coming up next such as Roma Lodging, Venezia Lodging and so on.
5) The site should offer genuine content from both a team of writers I can lead and both from schools writing articles on their own, or purchasing a package of articles a month.
Here I am being very general but should give you an idea of what I need and hopefully get a general quotation, my budget is limited being a start up project but I am willing to go around 1500 to 3000 â?¬ for the first works than I understand things can change and extra features can be added lately or the project broken down into phases so I can better stand the costs.
You can contact me at info !&(at)&! firenzelodging.it Kindest Lorenzo Beltrame