Development of Social Web Application

OVERVIEW * Social web application * Need a simple, clean, elegant design that non-technical users can use, and feel is friendly and inviting. color scheme, icons, layout, graphic design, etc. * Expectations: - Our team has a strong technical background, so we expect to work directly with the developer (not a project manager). Developer needs to have good communication skills and take instruction well. - Expect the developer to quickly gain a strong sense of what we’re trying to accomplish and work with us on best implementation. - We will provide HTML designs. ## Deliverables PAGES AND FEATURES * Home Page - Landing page about the community - - Page needs to have a generic layout that can fit multiple smaller communities - e.g. “San Jose Book Club??, “Master’s Golf Association??, “Video Game Traders of America??. - Domain specific content - we will provide - domain specific theme - Ability to login using Facebook - Primary Links -- Dashboard, My Lists, Friends, Marketplace, Settings * Dashboard: - Stats box, Notifications, Workflow manager, recent activity feed (showing recent activity from user or user’s network. Dynamic (auto-refresh’s when new activity happens). * My Lists - Ability to manage 2 lists - Have List and Want List - Ability to easily add items to each list - photo, description, price,rating, etc - Ability to easily view items in my lists, 2 views: gallery view and list (table) view. - Options on privacy levels - no one can view, everyone can view, only my network - Ability to easily edit items * Stuff Interaction/workflow management - Ability to interact with other people and other people’s stuff is key to the design. * View Stuff - A ‘Marketplace’ section to view stuff on the network; - Ability to browse network of people on the community, and see their stuff. * Stuff Interaction - Comment on other people’s stuff - ‘Like’ other people’s stuff - Request to borrow w/??Return by?? date. - Request to trade - Make offer to buy - Stuff owner -- Respond to borrow, trade, offer requests -- Accept -- Make counter offers, -- Ignore/decline -- reply with comments and details about the transaction -- Easily track status of items - e.g. borrowed by...; - A non-logged in view - if an unknown user comes to the site, give them access to basic information - e.g. home page, marketplace - with access to stuff “Everyone can see??; * Notifications - email, socials SOCIAL * Ability to post to Facebook wall * Ability to share on Twitter * Ability to ‘like’ * Badges - support FourSquare type awards for various activities - e.g. “Added 10 items??, “Lent my first item??, “Returned all items on time??, etc. - view my badges - view my friend badges - post to Twitter of Facebook ACCOUNT AND SETTINGS * When first logging in using Facebook login, prefill with Facebook info * Support account info: name, email, password, shipping address info, etc * Ability to set default privacy settings for items * Change basic account information Technologies - PHP - CakePHP - MySQL - NoSQL - jQuery, jQueryUI, DataTables - AJAX - Facebook connect - Twitter integration - FOR FUTURE: PHASE 2 - iPHONE background strong plus, but not required.