Hello,
My name is Adrian.
I represent a software development company and we are looking for a long term relationship with any serious client. I am confident that our qualifications and professionalism will meet your expectations in development of this project.
Here are the answers to your questions:
o How you would design this site - In terms of development, we would use Wordpress as a base framework and then we will add the necessary functionality to fully meet your needs.
o Why you recommend this method over other options - because we have had previous experience with this.
o Are you designing it from scratch? - we will build it based on Wordpress framework.
o If so what language will you use Java , php, html5, or will you use a default e-commerce engine (oscommerce, magneto etc) and modify it to our requirements - we will use PHP and MySQL
o Rough estimate of completion time (excluding the 3rd additional feature) - around 2 months of work, including testing and bug fixing.
o How you propose to be paid: (Lump sum progress payments, Hourly hire etc) - Considering you will have modifications for the product during our development period, I would suggest hourly rate. But if we agree on a strict specification list and we do not have to add anything extra in the development period, we are okay with progress payments, every 2 weeks or so.
o Require details for one point of contact. Contact will update me on progress and display live running samples - me or my partner will be available to talk to you. We can be reached on Skype, Email and phone. We are excellent English speakers.
I have an excellent team of programmers, designers and testers. We have the capacity required to provide you with one or more full time programmers that will work on your project until 100% completion.
We usually work with a project management system and a bug tracking system an also a SVN. You will be able to see each day's progress on the project not only through our SVN commits but also on our development server. If you do not already have a server we will give you access to our own server where we will be developing the application. You will have access to see everything that happens there.
Do you think we can talk over Skype or phone about the project?
If you would like to contact any of our previous clients, please let me know and I will send you the contact details.
Best regards,
Adrian,
CEO,
Lead Soft.