Need Someone To Update My Pretty Old Site

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You know your site is outdated and needs a refresh but you feel the time required is outweighed by the "cost" of the exercise.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.