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I have a small business where I wear most all of the hats, one of which has been webmaster. I learned just enough basic HTML and Dreamweaver to get by. Now that Adobe is putting the screws to us occasional users, it is time for a change. Concrete5 looks promising.

Rather than build the site from scratch myself, I am entertaining the idea of hiring someone to take my existing content and give it a fresh new look. It is ok if you use a template, but I will need to be able to manage / alter / add / remove content as needed going forward.

Take a look at teamkingsley.com and let me know your thoughts and price. I hate to sound cheap, but my business has been slow so unfortunately I don't have much budget for this.

 
goodnightfirefly replied on at Permalink Reply
goodnightfirefly
Take a look at the themes marketplace and find something you like: http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/themes/-/choose_marketplace/1/...
mnakalay replied on at Permalink Reply
mnakalay
Just a FYI, avoid using flash at any cost. Your site's menu for instance is in flash so it doesn't appear on any mobile device, tablet or phone. Basically anybody visiting your site using their phone or tablet won't be able to look around.

You also need to select a responsive template, meaning a template with the capacity to adapt to different screen sizes. 2 reasons to this: first for the benefit of your users on smaller screens who can't read your site at the moment, second because Google will penalize your site for not being mobile friendly.

I looked at your site and frankly there's nothing complicated, it's texts and images so my advice, find a good theme you like install Concrete5 and rebuild your site. Concrete5 is trully easy to use, just like Dreamweaver.

If you want to spend some money but not too much, pay someone to show you how to use Concrete5. And even that, if you have the time, just go through the doc or ask around on the forum.