Re: [dcphp-dev] Need help with PHP site

Hi Mel, et al.

I am sorry to disagree with such excellent advice - I know the people
here are very smart about strategic thinking. But unless I have missed
something, you still don't know what your website is made from or what
files are there.

The cost of rebuilding the site is not trivial, and tracking down a
user/password would almost certainly be easier. Any coder could probably
see a way to view your admin area quite quickly. And after a review of
your files and database you could make a far more informed choice.

And here is the thing about rebuilding the site: there are too many
unknowns. Are there external links out in the world that point to
critical files? Is there a backend database with critical information?
Are there users who would be locked out? Are there any other
organizational files up on the server that are necessary?

I don't know the answers to these questions, maybe you do, but without
them you are opening up costs and risks that have unknown consequences,
and that always makes me uncomfortable.

The work that is required to track down these answers might also not be
trivial, but it could hardly be more than rebuilding the whole site.

Anyway, best of luck. I agree with folks about how useful Wordpress is.
It's a great CMS.

Robyn Wyrick
President, DC PHP, LLC
202-374-4747
robyn@dcphp.com <mailto:robyn@dcphp.com>

"I cherish my kinship with all living beings, particularly Ice Cream."


On Aug 20, 2015, at 7:48 AM, Ray Paseur <ray.paseur@gmail.com
<mailto:ray.paseur@gmail.com>> wrote:

Mel, I think your instincts are right about the site, but you won't
learn how to do updates and improvements in a small number of man-days;
this sort of thing is learned in semesters of college. It would
probably be wise to discard what you have here and start over. Here's
how the standards organizations see the site:
http://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.millenniumartssalon.org%2F
<http://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.millenniumartssalon.

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