HTML Theme Developer
Premium Portfolio & Business Template for a Freelance Full-Stack Developer
🎯 Project Overview
I am looking for an experienced HTML/CSS theme developer to create a beautiful, modern and highly reusable static business/portfolio website template.
The template will ultimately be converted into a custom Drupal theme, so the initial deliverable should be a clean, framework-based front-end implementation rather than a CMS or page-builder solution.
The goal is to create a premium-quality, conversion-focused website that combines excellent visual design with clean, maintainable and reusable code.
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🛠️ Technical Requirements
- PHP-based reusable code/components where appropriate
- Bootstrap or Tailwind CSS
- Component/module-oriented architecture
- Atomic-design principles where practical
- Semantic HTML5
- W3C-valid HTML/CSS
- SEO-conscious markup and structure
- Excellent Lighthouse performance
- Fully responsive
- Cross-browser compatible
- Clean, maintainable and reusable code
- No headless architecture
- No page builders
- No one-page-only design
- Designed with future Drupal conversion in mind
- Proper SEO/meta-field structure
- Social-media integration-ready
- Strong accessibility and usability practices
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🎨 Design Direction
I am looking for a unique, polished and professional visual identity, not simply a generic Bootstrap template.
I am open to
- Reusing existing free designs as inspiration
- Adapting and combining components from several free templates
- Purchasing premium themes/templates where appropriate
- Creating additional custom design elements
- Presenting several design directions for me to choose from The final design should be coherent and follow my existing style guide.
Required reusable design elements
- Multiple header designs
- Hero/header variations
- Navigation variations
- CTA components
- Service cards
- Service overview sections
- Service detail layouts
- About sections
- Professional-experience components
- Portfolio cards
- Portfolio filtering/labels
- Portfolio detail layouts
- Knowledge-base layouts
- Knowledge-article layouts
- Landing-page sections
- Testimonial sliders
- Social-proof sections
- Client/logo sections
- Footer variations
- Contact components
- Quote/request components The components should be flexible enough for me to reuse and rearrange when building different pages.
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📄 Website Structure
Home The homepage should include:
- Header/navigation
- Hero section
- Introduction/business information
- Services overview
- Client logos/overview
- Testimonials
- Social proof
- WhatsApp CTA
- Additional conversion-oriented CTA sections
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About Me
Sections for
- Professional experience
- Career background
- Goals and vision
- Way of working
- Client overview/slider
- Testimonials
- Personal professional positioning
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💼 Services
What I Do A visually attractive overview of my technical capabilities and services.
This should include a technology/skill overview, where technologies can be presented as clickable elements with an indication of their relevance or experience.
Main Services The site should be able to present services such as:
- Website development
- Webshop development
- Website design
- Application development
- Desktop application development
- Automation
- Custom software development
- WordPress development
- Drupal development
- Laravel development
- Shopify development
- API and service integrations
- Technical SEO
- Performance optimisation
- Server configuration
- Database administration and optimisation
- DevOps and deployment
- Docker environments
- VPS infrastructure
- Cloud/server administration
- Security auditing
- Defensive security hardening
- Malware analysis and incident remediation
- Blue-team/security consultancy
- Security best-practice implementation
- Technical consultancy
- Proof-of-concept development
- Website audits
- Project management and delivery planning
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💻 Technology & Development Expertise The design should provide room to showcase technologies and development experience including:
Web Development
- PHP
- Laravel
- WordPress
- Drupal
- Shopify
- HTML5
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Angular / AngularJS
- React
- AJAX
- WebSockets
- REST
- SOAP
- GraphQL
- ORM
- Composer
- NPM
- NVM
Software Development
- C
- C
- Rust
- C#
- Java
- Kotlin
- Python
- Qt
- WPF
- Electron
- Xamarin
- Desktop application development
- Game-engine development
- Chess/bitboard engine development
Java Ecosystem
- Spring
- Swing
- JavaFX
- Hibernate
- Maven
- Gradle
- Tomcat
- CI/CD
Infrastructure & DevOps
- Docker
- VPS administration
- Apache/web servers
- DNS
- SSL/TLS
- HSTS
- Reverse proxies
- Firewalls
- Load balancing
- Server-side caching
- Web caching
- Redis
- Cron jobs
- Deployment automation
- GitHub Actions
- TeamCity
- Plesk
- DirectAdmin
- cPanel
- Mail-server configuration
Architecture & Engineering
- Object-oriented architecture
- Microservices
- Domain-driven design
- Functional programming
- Unit testing
- Integration testing
- Selenium testing
- Agile development
- API architecture
- Network/service communication
- Database optimisation
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🛡️ Security Expertise
Security should be presented as professional defensive/security consultancy, rather than as offensive functionality.
Relevant areas include
- Web application security audits
- Malware analysis
- Incident investigation and remediation
- Server compromise analysis
- Security hardening
- XSS prevention
- SQL-injection prevention
- CSRF/CORS protection
- SSRF mitigation
- Directory-traversal prevention
- Brute-force mitigation
- Session-security improvements
- Cookie/session-hijacking prevention
- Phishing and spam prevention
- Spoofing mitigation
- MITM protection
- ARP-poisoning mitigation
- DNS security
- ACL/security configuration
- Endpoint security
- Windows administration
- Secure server configuration
- Suspicious script-loading detection
- Evidence gathering and incident identification
- Rootkit/bootkit/UEFI compromise detection and remediation
- Zero-day/vulnerability detection and mitigation
- Network-security assessment
Security-related content should be communicated from a defensive and professional perspective.
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📚 Blog & Knowledge Base A dedicated knowledge section for publishing articles about:
- Web development
- Software development
- WordPress
- Drupal
- Programming
- DevOps
- Performance
- SEO
- Cybersecurity
- Infrastructure
- Development best practices
Required layouts
- Knowledge-base overview
- Category/filter interface
- Article listing
- Individual knowledge article
- Related articles
- Search-friendly structure
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💰 Request a Quote
Create a dedicated quote-request experience containing:
- Quote request form
- Project information
- Requirements
- Budget/timeline information
- AI-assisted quote generation concept
- Review/approval workflow
- Final offer presentation
- Clear conversion-focused CTAs The front-end should provide the structure for the future implementation; the AI/backend functionality does not need to be implemented as part of the static theme unless separately agreed.
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📞 Contact
Dedicated contact page containing
- Contact form
- WhatsApp CTA
- Location/map section
- Contact information
- Social-media links
- Clear CTA
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📑 Additional Pages The theme should also include layouts for:
- Portfolio overview
- Portfolio detail
- Services overview
- Service detail
- About
- Blog
- Knowledge base
- Knowledge article
- Landing pages
- Contact
- Request a quote
- Sitemap
- Disclaimer
- Legal/information pages
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📈 SEO & Conversion
SEO and conversion should be considered throughout the design.
Requirements include
- Semantic HTML5
- SEO-friendly page structures
- Proper heading hierarchy
- Meta-field support
- Open Graph/social sharing readiness
- Structured content
- Clean URLs
- Internal linking possibilities
- Optimised images
- Excellent performance
- Lighthouse optimisation
- Clear calls-to-action
- Mobile-first usability
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📱 Responsive Design The finished theme must work properly across:
- Desktop
- Laptop
- Tablet
- Mobile
It should be tested across major modern browsers and should not rely on browser-specific behaviour.
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🚫 What I Don't Want
- Page builders
- Elementor-style implementations
- Heavy visual editors
- Headless architecture
- A single generic one-page template
- Bloated dependencies
- Poorly structured CSS
- Non-reusable components
- Designs that look like an untouched generic Bootstrap template
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📦 Deliverables
I would like to receive:
- Several initial design directions/examples to choose from
- A complete responsive static theme
- Reusable components/modules
- Multiple header/hero variations
- Multiple CTA/footer variations
- Complete page layouts
- Portfolio components
- Service components
- Blog/knowledge-base components
- Contact and quote-request layouts
- SEO-conscious HTML structure
- Clean, organised source code
- Documentation explaining the reusable components
- Design assets/source files where applicable The implementation should be structured so that I can subsequently convert the theme into a custom Drupal theme without having to rebuild the front end from scratch.
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🤝 Working Style
I am quite perfectionistic about the final result and would therefore prefer a collaborative process where I can review several design directions before the complete implementation is finalised.
The most important aspects are:
Design quality → Reusability → Performance → Clean code → Responsiveness → Drupal conversion readiness
I am open to intelligently reusing and adapting existing free resources or purchasing premium design assets where this produces a better result, provided the final implementation is coherent and legally usable.
Please include examples of comparable themes/websites you have created, particularly work involving reusable component systems, Bootstrap/Tailwind, responsive business websites or premium portfolio templates.
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