Will you offer me information (e.g. tips and suggestions) freely
OH YES. The Bobbing Wide websites are packed with information about the WordPress plugins, Drupal modules and the Artisteer theme generator that we use. Some of it may be a bit techno-babbly, but we won't
charge you for common knowledge.
With a career in IT that spans 5 decades I've seen all sorts of ways of doing things. Some methods are good and some are bad. In the 90's a lot of websites were developed using HTML tables. This has now gone out of fashion. We are now using semantic techniques and XHTML to define content and CSS to provide styling. The end result to the human reader may look exactly the same, but a well structured website is much better for the search engines to understand.
Bobbing Wide have defined 3 different groups of website quality tests and the possible results. If you look like you're doing something that's going to cause the site to fail a test then we'll let you know.
In order to assist with the development of an easy to maintain site we have also developed our own WordPress plugin and Drupal module called oik. Using this plugin can significantly reduce the amount of work you need to do to present Often Included Key information.
We will also need to show you how to use your site in order to maintain it yourself. Some of it is pretty obvious... and you can find video tutorials and read the online help. But there will be times when we combine plugins in an interesting manner, making it a little harder to understand what needs to be for something to happen.