My mother is a real estate agent. A few years back, a client whom she helped find a home put together a web page for her, and for a while she paid him a little bit to maintain the site for her. Well, one thing led to another, and so it's been about three years since the site was last updated. But she still owns the domain and pays the web hosting fees, so the site is still live.
Well, after a year of putting together my own site, she says she likes my work (Tough audience, huh?) and wants me to take over maintaining her site (
http://www.southbelthomes.com/). She does not have the ftp information to access the site, so it may be necessary to transfer it to a new hosting provider (I'm leaning that direction anyway).
The copyright notice says "South Belt Homes", so I presume that I can re-use graphic elements and the like although I think it would be bad form to copy the other guy's work wholesale. I'm trying to come up with ideas for redesigning largely from scratch. I'd also like to come up with ways to simplify or even automate the process of adding new home listings, which will need to be done on a regular basis.
Any suggestions?