Thanks for your opinion!

I agree that many websites do need to be redesigned, and many times, small businesses just go with the lowest price they can find. Those sites definitely do need to be redesigned, but if a site has been professionally designed, it probably doesn’t need to be redesigned. That being said, just because someone calls themselves a professional designer doesn’t mean they actually are.

In regards to the CMS – no, changes don’t happen automatically, but it gives the client the ability to change their own content, which means it doesn’t cost them anything. I have to disagree with your statement about CMSs being expensive though – we offer a custom web design package that includes a full-featured CMS for around $3,100

Your website probably doesn’t need to be redesigned:

In my experience 99% of websites on the web need to be re-designed, BADLY, the problem is that most companies get an amateur to design their first version of the site and it ends up looking and behaving awful. With the exception of many large corporate websites, often small business websites are in gross need of redesign. For example I have been recently researching Alaskan Malamutes as a potential pet and every single breeder and club site I have visited has embarrassingly poor design that makes them almost impossible to interact with. To a degree, you are right in that a professional designed website does not need to be remade often, however, the reality of the industry is that the grand majority of non corporate sites simply are not professionally designed.

You don’t have to pay every time you want to make a change:

Why not? Yes CMSs make changes easier but they don’t make changes happen magically. A web design agency still has to assign a resource to even the smallest change which in turn costs them money. Also developing solid CMSs is expensive and time consuming, it is designed to make changes faster for the developers. Simply put it is more effort up front to decrease effort going forward, often the increased effort up front is an investment by the company in question that needs to be returned on via the efficientsy that a solid CMS provides.