I'm Bookworm the lead developer and designer at DesignBreakDown. DesignBreakDown is an upcoming template club and design resource site, which will provide a variety of resources and services to the Joomla!, Drupal, and Wordpress communities. Our motto is "We Break Stuff" which expresses our philosophy in regards to design and services/resources. We like to keep things simple and broken down so that people from a variety of related and closely connect fields can utilize and understand our services and resources. I like to think of DesignBreakDown as a team of coders for designers and a team of designers for coders. Our resources and services will help improve and speed-up the work-flow of designers and coders alike, we take the confusing hassle out of connecting freelancer to freelancer in a co-operative way. I'm not going to mention publicly what were secretly working on right now, but you can however checkout out our currently launched service called PSD2CMS at http://www.psd2cms.designbreakdown.com , which should give you good idea of where we're headed.
I'm currently seeking team members in preparation for our launch. The team can be thought of as a team of freelancers and collaborators working together, more than anything else. Our design service site's can be thought of as a shared portfolio and our upcoming membership club a collaborative and shared business venture. I feel this is a unique way to form a company and service and hope others will feel the same way. I cant count the number of times I've passed off work to another freelancer friend; DBD services are essentially going to be a more formal and organized method of doing this.
* What We're Looking For *
1. Support team members:
These are essentially "liaisons" between the DBD team and clients/members. They handle basic support questions as well as make sure clients are informed about the status of their project. We're looking for 1-3 people to fill these positions.
* Requirements *
Solid communication skills are a must as well as a solid knowledge of the CMS you'll be answering questions about. No coding or design knowledge is necessary but this is definitely a bonus. Being multilingual is a huge bonus here but not a must.
2. Web Designers:
This should be clear enough on it's own so I will not elaborate. We're looking for 1-2 people to fill these positions.
* RequireMents *
Design skills using photoshop, illustrator, fireworks etc and good communication skills. Strong skills in niche areas such as UI design or interactivity design are bonuses.
3. Illustrators and Digital Artists:
This should be essentially clear on it's own so I will not elaborate. We're looking for 1-2 people to fill these positions.
* RequireMents *
Good grasp of the way web-design and digital art connect as well as good communication skills. All type of niche digital artists are welcome; 3d, vector illustrator, photomanipulator etc.
4. Template Developers:
Template developers handle conversion of designs into cms compatible templates. We're looking for 3-6 people to fill these positions.
* RequireMents *
Knowledge of how to implement designs in one or all of the following; Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress.
5. Developers:
Developers will develop custom extensions through our services and extensions for our products at the resource club as well as work on DesignBreakDown ventures. We're looking for 1-3 people to fill these positions.
* RequireMents *
Able to code in and for one or all of the following; PHP/MySQL, Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress, Python, Ruby on Rails.
* General Requirements *
Must be from Europe, Canada, or the states and must speak/write fluent English.
* How To Join The Team *
Simply send a e-mail with work examples or a link to your portfolio and a list of your skills and rates to bookworm.productions@gmail.com I look forward to hearing from you. You may also IM me any questions you have at
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