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

[nan wich]

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
 
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
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