[Hidden-tech] Wanted: website assistance for small-business client

[Rich Roth]

1) It's not possible to estimate the work involved without know how big your site is - it 
looks to be only 19 pages of text.
so probably best to follow step 5 below and do it yourself.

2) it looks like most of your pages where created with a MS tool - and have embedded css - 
this is not easy to convert
since it forces specific formatting on each page -- it might be simplifier if all those 
css are the same - not easy to tell at quick glance.

3) there is NO cms site without a theme - however there are 1000's to chose from and you 
can have a custom one made,
(which of course costs extra)  Your current list is visually simple so you don't need much 
of a theme, see #5 below.

4) There are wordpress import tools that will load your site into WP and then you can add 
menus, tweak it etc.
See http://wordpress.org/plugins/import-html-pages/ for an example
or http://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=html+import&sort= for many others

5) To get what you want at the lowest price - I suggest you signup for a WP site as a test 
site, use the import
and then tweak until you like it - you can find a theme you like or get someone to 
customize it.
THEN take it live.

There is a wordpress meetup in Northampton you might get help from also: 
http://www.meetup.com/nohowebdev/

Rich/webmaster

On 7/7/2014 6:32 AM, Jean Zimmer wrote:
>
>
> My website www.zanekotker.com <http://www.zanekotker.com/> was made half a dozen years 
> ago and does not have a content management system. I'd like to transfer everything in my 
> current site to a Wordpress or similar system that I could manage and update myself. I'm 
> curious has to how much I should expect to pay for the transfer and for the instruction 
> in updating. Thanks for any information you can give me.
>
> I'd also love it if I could keep the same design and not change into Wordpress Themes 
> but I gather this isn't possible. Correct?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zane
> zane at crocker.com <mailto:zane at crocker.com>
>
>
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