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November 15, 2017
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Need Someone To Update My Pretty Old Site

  • November 15, 2017
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My site was originally created in Dreamweaver in 2000 and I've been updating it ever since using Contribute https://woodsshop.com/

I know nothing about coding whatever and need someone to update my site and maybe redesign it a bit.

Is this the place to look for someone or is there a Dreamweaver Jobs board somewhere?

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    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 15, 2017

    It's deja vu all over again.    It does not look like much has changed since you posted the same question about a year ago.

    WordPress is one option we discussed last time but I seem to recall that you dismissed that plan for unspecified reasons.

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Inspiring
    November 16, 2017

    Yeah Nancy but I have such a big site, 3610 pages some display only 1 image per page but a lot have multiple images per page and text. In October 2,717 pages of my site received traffic at one point or another.Transferring it all over to WP with redirects will cost way too much.

    I thought spiff up the current one and put my money in to marketing.

    John Waller
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 16, 2017

    Your issue is that your site does not scale easily. You've outgrown it and hit a wall. Every inch of growth requires a huge amount of blood, sweat and tears and its exhausting you.

    3,600 pages is really not a big site. It might feel big because you're using such archaic tools to maintain it. We marvel at the Pyramids today because they were built slowly with vast labour resources. If we built them today with modern machinery, we'd do it in a fraction of the time that it took to build the existing ones - few would marvel at them because it's so achievable these days. We see mega-projects all the time, just look at Dubai.

    Today's sites have millions of "pages". They're easily maintained and re-designed.

    But there's no such thing as a "page" these days. What you see in your browser are fragments of code dynamically assembled, and populated with content from a database, whenever you hit Go in your browser. But today's sites are easy to maintain, update, refresh and re-design at the click of a button. Wordpress has millions of One Click Themes. One click in Wordpress and you've got a complete site re-design populated by the same content from your database. No-one marvels at the size of them because the tools handle it so easily. We marvel at their ability to easily scale, adapt to change and add excellent new features.

    You know your site is outdated and needs a refresh but you feel the time required is outweighed by the "cost" of the exercise. You're in a Catch-22 dilemma created by your own mind. One day, you'll wake up, scrap the current site and create a brand new modern one. Until then you'll agonise over it every time you look at it.