READY TO HIRE NOW! Job may start out as part-time but will eventually be full-time as we are adding clients rapidly. Pay is negotiable based on results and quality of work 🙂
I am looking for a website designer who is highly experiencing building full websites in Duda. All the websites will be built in Duda (). We mostly work with construction companies, remodelers and small local businesses like accountants, dentists etc. We have at least 3 websites in the queue ready to be built 🙂
NOTE: This will start out part-time, but we are rapidly growing as a company and this will soon be a Full Time position so I’m looking for someone will full-time availability, ideally.
HOW TO APPLY
If you don’t apply with these 7 steps, your application will not be considered.
1. Put #thrivelocal in the title of your application
2. Provide 3 live links to websites you’ve built in Duda in the last 3-5 months (no WordPress or other sites, only Duda examples). I prefer to see at least 2 home service industry sites since that is our typical customer. At least one of these sites should have an active blog on it.
3. How many years have you been using Duda?
4. How fast can you build an 8 page Duda website?
5. What is your experience with SEO and image optimization?
6. Please provide a link to a voice recording so I can hear you speak.
7. Which hours during 9am-5pm Eastern can you be available every day for check-ins and meetings?
WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR
1. You should be a designer first, a coder second.
2. You should be well versed in on-page optimization, including geo tagging images, optimizing images for size and type for fast-loading. You know how to use H tags, titles, descriptions and alt tags for SEO. You know how to embed maps. You understand internal linking hierarchies and anchor text principles.
3. You need to speak very good English in case the client needs to discuss the website.
4. You need to be available during at least a few business hours in the Eastern time zone for team meetings and updates.
5. You’re fast. You can build a quality, great looking site quickly. You aren’t always coming up with excuses for why the site wasn’t finished on time.
6. You can independently select and procure stock photos that accurately reflect the content without a lot of handholding. You can also optimize these images with the right geo tags (location meta data) and keywords as well as optimize for size to load fast. Being able to select the RIGHT images for the industry is a critical skill you must have (for example, you can’t be choosing asphalt driveway photos for a concrete driveway installer and you can’t use brick paving photos for a concrete installer etc.).
7. You must have reliable internet and power that does not frequently have outages. If you don’t have reliable internet access please do not apply.
8. Positive attitude, excited to be part of a team, want steady work.
The goal is to keep you busy enough with new website builds and existing website updates that you become a full time person. At the start, it may be part time as a trial run to make sure it’s a good fit.
OUR PRIORITIES
Here are the top priorities for our websites:
– Speed, speed, speed. It’s very important to me that the site loads FAST and isn’t bloated with tons of code and css and extra stuff we don’t need.
– SEO. You know on-site optimization and can work well with the SEO and content team to implement the plan.
– Design. The site should look a lot better than what the client has now and impress them 🙂 Design should look good in Mobile too.
– Ease of Editing. It is critical that our websites are built with editing in mind. That means using Global elements whenever possible so that content which appears on multiple pages (menus, lists, testimonials, locations etc.) only has to be updated once to be updated on all pages.
– Consistency. Typography, spacing, margins, button sizes, bullet lists etc. should look exactly the same on every page. Every H1 should be the same size and font no matter what page it’s on….and the same goes for every body text, every H2, every bullet list etc. Each page should look like they belong on the same site and not look like a re-creation.
– Organization. Images should always be cleanly organized into folders with stock images in a separate place from customer photos.
APPLY FOR THIS JOB:
Name: Katherine DalPra
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