At our company we believe in compensating for the project and not the time.  In fact the quicker the job is completed the more we will pay you.  I can and will pay more for better, quicker results--please feel free to give me your ideas as to how the site would look and interact best with our customers.

We need a whole new website design complete with colors, templates.  It needs to be backed by a content management system we have access to.  The final website will have three main features.  I expect to have at least the first two completed this month.  This site will be basically an online magazine that helps other people build websites.  There is no e-commerce at the momment but in the future we will offer some basic services.  Our main goal is great information exchanged to our customers for free.  At a minumum the site should have the following:

1.) Content Mangement System that allows us to update articles dynamically as they are written
2.) Full reporting:  Integration of Google Analytics
3.) Newsletter sign up
4.) Polls for our readers
5.) A tag tree on the wrapper pages
6.) Actual URLs that will help with SEO instead of just PHP dynamically made up URLs (I believe this can be done but I am honestly not sure... let me know)
7.) 404 page that will math our scheme
8.) mobile web capabilities
9.) Google AdSense integration

Some flash is great but if flash is being used I want to make sure that the page is checked for compatibility and if it's not to display a base page.  I want a good experience for out customers.

You will have a lot of freedom when it comes to how you design the template. However, in the end we will have to agree.  I want a template that has a unique look and fell and still has a clean presentation