Antiquity Sound eCommercewebsite

Antiquity Sound Inc. is an online retail small business with a unique vision: we love old, rare and unique instruments, and want to share them with the world. Our Beverly Hills-located e-commerce business is currently dedicated to the restoration and sale of these rare, exotic, and usually antique and vintage musical instruments. There are no other stores on earth where you can buy many of the musical instruments that we sell. We have a client base of prominent recording artists, studios, museums, and producers (e.g. Coldplay, Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros, Fleet Foxes, etc.). We plan to expand our operations this August with a commercial recording studio facility and instrument showcase. Antiquity Sound seeks an adaptable and smart web developer who can work full-time at our company’s location to build our new website at antiquitysound.com. The company’s current retail website, Vintage Keys and Percussion, has offered exotic vintage musical instruments and premium restoration services at [login to view URL] since January 2010. In January 2012, the company incorporated as Antiquity Sound Inc.; we plan to launch a new website at [login to view URL] that will dramatically improve user experience and provide a much larger selection of instruments. The site will be a predominantly e-commerce site with several community and marketing components, and must be as complex and feature-rich as that of [login to view URL], combined with some of our favorite features of the following websites: [login to view URL], [login to view URL], and antiquepianoshop.com. Many of the site’s design elements likely will be created by a third-party web designer, Sulky Bros. Manufactorium. The design aesthetic will hopefully be similar to that of Sulky Bros’ Naval Research Laboratory project (see [login to view URL]), with a quasi-Steampunk, Early-1900s American feel of instrumental exotica, old-world ingenuity, and fine craftsmanship. In addition, the site design will give off a high-end “recording studio” aura that reflects the professional, commercial recording purpose behind much of this enterprise. As suggested, the website must be tasteful and not look like a template nor that it was made a Wordpress semi-professional. Our site already looks better than that, though not much better. We want something with character, but that is clean and efficient, not bulky. Achieving this will be the combined responsibility of both the third-party web designer and the web developer. For an example of our aesthetic, we do not consider the website [login to view URL] to be as tasteful or efficient as the ones above. The web developer will be responsible for developing, debugging, and updating our high-volume ecommerce and community website, as well as for usability engineering and user experience. The project will require will require collaboration with web designers, project managers, and our marketing team to refine and improve the user experience. We are also open to hiring full-time on-location. Please note that this will eventually grow into an extensive website.