The office bought the "website" - and now what should I do with it?

Question

CMS

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Management ordered a corporate website on the side. Not very large (with a couple of dozen pages), with all sorts of sections due to the occasion, a dialer form and all that.
After a couple of months, he writes to the development department: everything is ready, set up a new site. And sends the archive.
The archive contains a bunch of incoherent static pages and a bunch of garbage: sass, loess, plugins and all that. No content management system, all texts are manually copied directly into the body of the pages.
The task is to give the management "a password to start news and articles", well, you understand ...

• It is impossible to give THIS to be remade in a human way, it is "paid".
  
• Taking a ready-made CMS and pulling on it with an ingenious design - well, you can ... although it is tantamount to making a website in a new way.
  
• Write an admin panel yourself?
  

Can you tell me, maybe there is some kind of under-tsms just for such cases?
PHP.

Answer 1

Welcome to https://freelansim.ru/

Answer 2

Do you have an agreement to create a website? What does it say about non-compliance with the requirements? And, most importantly, who and how accepted the finished work?) To prevent this from happening, warn the management that knowledgeable people also need to be pulled up to work with such things. And yes, look for freelancers ...

Answer 3

explain to management what they paid the money for.

Answer 4

Tell the management all this - first of all)
Vasily's option is the fastest and most acceptable for the first time. And in parallel to write an admin panel

Answer 5

There can be many nuances in your situation, but the two extreme options seem to be as follows:
1. Everything was as it should be, according to the contract between your boss and the contractor, something like this (from the side of the developer) "we do statics, and then your specialist puts on your server and your CMS".
Well, it is clear that in this case you have cards with manuals in your hands, and do your part of the work.
By the way, I would recommend WordPress.
2. The developer holds your office in the person of the head for a sucker.
Then you can try to enter into correspondence with him (s), starting with the fact that "please send instructions for editing the site and passwords for access to editing."
If the developer goes into denial, at least you can show the manager that there are no passwords, go to the first option, but already with the fact that the manager is aware of the depth.

Answer 6

Can you tell me, maybe there is some kind of under-tsms just for such cases?

Do not even think about it! And no calls to freelance to solve THIS problem. Otherwise, it will become your personal hemorrhoids and big problems in relations with your superiors.
The first thing you need is a contract. We read what and how should be provided. If everything corresponds to the contract (there are no words about the admin panel, management, CMS, various kinds of installation and maintenance instructions, etc.) - all claims are against the compilers and recipients thereof.
If so, demand the performance of the contract.
And to explain to the authorities this way - either under the contract there is no possibility of new Wishlist (cheat: you need more money to bring it to the state of Wishlist), or the execution does not correspond to the contract. And in any case, that. what was given - it is impossible to use.

Answer 7

Show a screenshot of folders and files.
Is there a folder like administrator, admin, panel, etc.?
Is there MySQL in the archive?

Answer 8

I see two positive points:
1. The layout is still done, and this is about 30% of the work on the site.
2. Apparently, the management is so in the subject that he still won't need that password.

Answer 9

A couple of months for layout, think about it, 2k17 ...