Our volunteer-run photo organization has a six year-old site that is old, tired
and definitely dated.

It has the usual web site stuff for the general public, a photo gallery and the
rest for members only: an moribund forum section, an interactive "upload your
competition photos here" section, members list, files, etc. all of which is
locked into a spaghetti bowl of PHP code, some of which is old Gallery 1.0 code.
There is also some sort of e-mail thing intertwined with it all. There is no
e-commerce on it.

Only one person in the world understands it and can fix it, sort of, and he's
not a member any more. The web master can only administer what's there, but
can't fix even a typo because the code is so complex.

Frankly, I'd like to see the whole thing thrown out and a whole new site
developed using currently available software that "anybody" (well, with some
technical skills in current software) can operate. A number of our members have
software and database skills but not enough to tackle this. A new design and
navigation schema is available from other members but the roadblock is that no
one wants to touch this thing for fear it will collapse like a house of cards.

Any thoughts about how to go about replacing this? I realize it's both a
technical and an administrative problem.

Rick Strong,

(on digest)


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