[consulting] Does "Upgrading" mean "Fixing" too?

[Shai Gluskin]

Nancy,

Your approach is exactly right, in my opinion. It is exactly what I would
do. And it is a good value for the customer.

Shai

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:08 PM, nan wich <nan_wich at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I am currently working on a contract to upgrade a site from D5 hopefully to
> D7 if it gets ready soon enough. However, I am beginning to wonder if I am
> doing the right thing for the client.
>
> There are a bunch of things that are just not "right." To start with the
> custom theme had to have been designed by a novice. Now, I do not call
> myself a themer and prefer not to have to touch it, but when upgrading
> Drupal, you have to. This "theme" had the sidebars hard-coded, as was most
> of the front page. The menus were done with both Nice Menus and Simple Menus
> when it works quite well as a standard menu in a real theme that has
> Superfish.
>
> They had type-specific node templates AND Contemplate. With a bit of CCK
> settings changes, I am pretty sure I can eliminate all but maybe one of the
> type-specific templates and Contemplate stuff. That one I am still
> considering only because there are some links that they occasionally want to
> change the title text on and I'm not sure that having them go into the CCK
> field settings is the best way to handle it. But at least that's a whole lot
> better than what they have now (calling the original developer).
>
> The bottom line is that I am fixing as much, if not more than, I
> am upgrading. I have been upfront with the customer, but I am worried that
> maybe I should have just concentrated on only upgrading. They will be left
> with a much more maintainable site and shouldn't have to call me as much as
> they call the original contactor now. And when D7 is ready, that part of the
> upgrade should be a piece of cake.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> *Nancy*
>
>
>
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