I am teaching at a summer enrichment program in Rochester (Horizons at Harley) and I was asked to update the programs web page. I have experience with web based classroom web pages that work with templates much like creating a PowerPoint document, bit this is much more involved and I am afraid I have bitten off more than I can chew. The original site appears to have been created with Dream Weaver. I have the program and I have been trying to figure it out on my own. Editing the original site seems like a ton of work. If I understand this right each part of the page including text has been converted into graphics files, Gif's and bitmaps. I assume that this helps viewers with different browsers see the site and download it quickly. Do I have to make new text images with Fireworks every time I edit text or is there an easier way to update the pages. I would be open to suggestion for completely dumping the old site and starting over with an easier format. Any advice would be appreciated.

Changing text to graphics would probably increase load times. You would have to edit graphics with fireworks or photoshop. You are better off keeping is as plain text.

I would go with an easier format- Dreamweaver is very user friendly (much more than Frontpage, if you use that before) and relatively easy to pick up