Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?

Hi HN, I've been helping a truly wonderful lady with basic computer and YouTube tasks. That's evolved into her wanting me to take over website updates/management from the current person, who will not be doing it after a couple months.

All I know is that: "it's currently edited using Macromedia Dreamweaver from 2004 and then the process entails fusing file transfer protocol to upload to the server host (webhero). The software and OS cannot be upgraded on my old laptop which has Dreamweaver'

What is the easiest way to get this transferred or independent from a mid 2000s laptop?

On a scale of 1-10 of general technical ability, I'm a 3.

Thanks a ton

http://julierussell.org/

The easiest way is probably to ignore the laptop, use a web spidering tool to download all of the content, and upload it to a no-code HTML tool like maybe wix.com (which I haven't actually used) and make changes using that.

A second option might be to ignore the laptop, use a web spidering tool, and then manually edit the HTML. That would not be very fun.

If this is an actual business, yoga studio websites these days all seem to integrate with other services like mindbodyonline.com to allow reservations etc.

I second this. The days of running your website are over, except for hobbyists. Most people are much better served by spending a few dollars to get access to a high quality tool for managing your site.

If it were me, I’d just rebuild the site manually on something like Squarespace (or maybe Shopify) by copying-and-pasting the text and downloading/uploading any images you want to keep. I didn’t see any interactive features in my brief browsing of the site, but if there are any, it would influence my choice of which service to use.

The hardest part technically seems like it will be transferring the domain name.