In reply to Watkinson Website Development.

in other words, clients do not want to pay enough money to have their sites properly managed. When you have a race to the bottom in how much clients are willing to pay for a web site it is no wonder the service is bad or non existing (the original developer could have notified the "abandoned" site owners). It is not the fault for the developers but of the clients and anyone that sell them the idea that having a wordpress based site is "free".