Think you may have missed the crucial point with this feature. When a w/site owner can update themselves, updates are usually frequent. Suggest the reason why most business owners don’t update their sites regularly is that there are, as you say, plenty of w/site designers but in many people’s experience they’re hard work to useless.

1. The w/site may not have been designed/built in a way that it can be easily changed anyway.
Sometimes it will require going back & re-designing & re-programming the entire site.

2. Next there can be long backlogs of work – months pass & nothing’s started.

3. When they do start, they are continually jumping between jobs.

4. Some bigger or status job will crop up which will result in other jobs being sidelined for weeks – then creating another queue.

5. The biggest problem is that almost always they are designers who can’t program & so this part has to be out-sourced – so they lose control of the job & forget about it. Frequently it’s disappeared out in India because programming’s cheaper there & then the programmers disappear to another job/company.

Anything w/sites usually means endless delays & a bucket load of stress with waiting, changing the firm, all promises & then the same again. By the time you get it, so long has passed you no longer want it, it’s out of date anyway & then you’ve got to pay some over-priced figure for it.

Currently I’m looking for a local IT teacher or employed programmer wanting extra work to handle precisely the updates you wrote about, but no more “firms”. The days go to weeks, the weeks go to months & the months go to years.

Maybe you could feature this problem & some programmers might jump in to fill this gap. I’ll list what I & most clients probably want :-

1. A start date.
2. A date, even if approximate, when the job will be completed.
3. They come back to you with a report to confirm progress.
4. Being able to do the job fairly quickly – if you’re planning a summer special it’s no use in December & it’ll be out of date for next summer.

Yikes a rant ! but the problem is not as easy as you make out & I suggest that building a good team around you is the real problem & many businesses haven’t managed this yet on the web front. What is needed is a handy person/team who can say like “Yes I can start this next Monday & be done by end Wednesday” – & simply do it.