Anybody know how to find a CSS person to transfer a legacy website?

[9tanstaafl9]

Good morning. I need advice please. I was an idiot and paid a consulting guy named after a mythical creature to redesign our company website. I had written the original using Notepad, back in the day, and I completely understood how to make changes and get it listed in Google etc. I had great rankings.

Now my site is all ASP based with weird URLs, and I hate it. I've lost my rankings. Worse, they won't give me a sitemap or let me upload the files google and bing need for their webmaster accounts and they're holding me hostage. I need to move it to a new location. I'm smart and somewhat HTML literate. I think I could handle managing the thing if I could just hire someone to convert it back over to real pages set up the CSS stuff for me (it hadn't been invented yet back when I did websites)...

I've searched for hours and can't find a board similar to this for CSS or Dreamweaver, as the terms are too generic and I'm obviously not doing it right. Does anybody know anybody? Or a board? I don't need re-design, and it doesn't have to look exactly the same, only similar. I just need the templates set up, I can do the rest.

Please help.

Jennifer

 

[Norie]

Jennifer

I'm a little confused by your request, what exactly do you mean by a 'CSS person'?

By the way as far as I know CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) have been around since the 70s, though they probably wore flares then.

 

[9tanstaafl9]

Ha ha. I didn't know they'd been around that long. They were new to me, and as far as I know not available when I did web design, which I think was around 98 or 97??? I know I thought I was hot stuff because my fancy expensive modem did 600 and 1200 baud, and my $2,000 printer did 256 shades of GRAYSCALE and 8 pages a minute. Wow, I just heard that noise in my head that the modem used to make...

Anyway, nothing like posting a question to have the answer just show up in another way. I was searching for something else entirely and found Odesk.com which lists consultants for this sort of thing.

 

[SydneyGeek]

Another thing to look at... You can design valid CSS-based sites using an application called Artisteer. It gives you heaps of options for getting the look and feel that you want, then exports the required files as HTML, CSS and whatever else you need.

Creates templates for ASP, Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, and plain HTML.

Of course you still need to get the data in there...

And... you could get your hands on Dreamweaver or Expression Web, and design the site there. You get to manage the content either with static pages or via database content, and they have ftp tools for loading up to the ISP.

Denis