On 12/02/2014 10:54, Chris Green wrote: [SNIP]
The main requirement is to make the site more interesting to look at rather than to fundamentally change its layout and design. The thought is probably to use soemthing like WordPress to create the site and to pay for someone whose major function will be to make the site attractive.
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Wordpress is a fantastic tool, and designed for exactly this. There are hundreds and hundreds of free themes, and most are easily changed via "child-themes". An hour or two playing around would probably give you something to work on which would cover their immediate needs.
A specialist theme writer could do this for reasonable money. Buying the book "Smashing Wordpress 4th Ed" would be a good start for someone who fancied a crack at it.
Cheers, Laurie.