Yep, could be confusing, stick with the well worn conventions and use home.

If you are doing this for some supposed SEO benefit, honestly, don't bother, it won't help.

Hey, WordPress was just a shot in the dark, I did not know it was an ecommerce site.

Still, there are various strong wordpress ecommerce plugins out there and a wordpress install + the woocommerce plugin OR wp ecommerce + yoast SEO plugin would give you a pretty good starting point under wordpress.

Ultimately, each CMS platform has it's own strengths and weaknesses and likewise each customer will have a preference for a certain system depending on their own technical skills.

I like to try to keep things wordpress as I find most non tech people get on with that better than say Joomla or Drupal which is where I used to hang my hat a little more.

You could always mock up a rough and ready prototype with these systems in a few hours and spend a day with your client to make sure it was going to meet his requirements fully.

If you were not involved in the original development if you could see what the requirements analysis was or any kind of brief or plan you could better make a call on this but... for most people, the above should do the job without too much effort.

Hope this helps!
Marcus

Hey Susan, you could possibly outsource the population the moving of the content to make it a more manageable or affordable task.

I have taken jobs on before with little physical access to the site and it was always a tough and pretty frustrating job so is not the way to go unless there is no other option.

Ask him where he wants to be in six months time - wrestling with goDaddy or with a solid six months of work behind him and a well optimised and hopefully performing site.

The obvious suggestion is to get the client to move his site to something a little more SEO friendly. I know this is not what you want to hear but if you are unable to make even relatively simple on page changes then you are really fighting an uphill battle from the go.

I can't imagine the site is huge and technical on the godaddy platform so recreating it or something very similar in WordPress would give him an affordable site with far better SEO prospects.

Ultimately, it's tough enough out there, why start the race with a wooden leg?