website re-write costs?

[wowzer]

To Bik and all webdesigners:

I didn't want to underplay your jobs and livelihood. It was not my intent to say that designing a website was easy.

The company website was already designed in Dreamweaver (duly corrected). The only updates are the names and few pictures of folks at the company. It's not a site which requires any massive interactions, just essentially an update on the look and feel with a little update to the names of people (with their pics). That's why I said I would imagine that the work was exceedingly simple...for this website.

Sorry for the confusion, typing is very difficult to convey the emotions of what I'm saying.

[MysteryGuest]

Apology duly noted.

Of course changing pictures and text for a few people isn't a big deal. But what are you calling a few, exactly? I would consider anything over 7 people, "several."

And this:

just essentially an update on the look and feel

gives me serious pause, because it could very well be a complete redesign for a 600 static page site! And a developer wouldn't know --unless told--whether these pages were properly attached to templates. Just importing and opening even a smallish site can consume a lot of time, and if someone else designed it, you don't know what you're getting into.

If you want more accurate and precise estimates, you'll have to give a lot more information.