As you may be aware, we’re currently in the process of developing our new website. It’s a process that has taken far longer than anticipated, due to the many changes we’ve decided to make along the way, but we now have a clear vision of things that we’d like to complete before launch. David (who is the co-founder of this*, and also a web designer) has spent a great deal of time on the new website, but has decided to take on other design duties full time. I wish him the best of luck in his new endeavours. Since we have a reasonably decent number of designers and developers as our client base, we thought we’d open the doors and see if anyone has any interest in helping us complete the new site!

What we Need

We’re looking for someone to help design and develop the new client area with us. The key goal of the new client area is dramatically improved user interface and accessibility. The client area currently runs off WHMCS using the Smarty templating engine, but familiarity with this isn’t required – just the ability to code valid xHTML and CSS. The current client area feels very confusing and doesn’t ‘flow’ very well at all. We’d like to change that and redesign it completely from the ground up, so we can present the correct information where it’s needed and in a manner that’s easy to understand. Essentially we want a clean and accessible user interface.

Ideally we’d prefer someone who isn’t in school or college, to prevent the distraction from important curriculum work. Experience with jQuery or general Javascript would be hugely advantageous, as is PHP/MySQL. These extras are very helpful, but not required – so if you’re a competent designer who can also output their work into xHTML and CSS for the web, we’d still like to hear from you!

So, to recap; are you familiar with designing user interfaces? Can you design clean, easily accessible control panels/backends? Can you also code valid xHTML/CSS?

If you’re interested in applying, or have any questions, please e-mail jules@thiswebhost.com. Please be sure to include examples of your work.

UPDATE: This is not a request for a full or part time position, merely a request for work. You will be required to work remotely, so you are not needed in-house.

Customer DNS editing is something we’ve previously limited to resellers only. The reason behind this is that, simply put, it’s very easy to make a mistake when adding or editing DNS and subsequently it’s possible to cause significant issues with an account. Many of you have asked, however, if/when this will become available – so we’ve decided to open this option up for everyone now.

The edit the DNS for your domain, simply login to your cPanel account and look for ‘Advanced DNS Zone Editor’. Resellers (with WHM Access) can still edit all of their clients DNS via WHM directly – or can edit it in this fashion. You can now add/edit A records, CNAME and TXT records. MX records will still need to be edited via the ‘MX Entry’ option of cPanel.