I used to be responsible for designing and maintaining a website, and it had a lot of positive responses, and attracted a lot more new clients than before.
Since my strengths are design and not programing, I relished that someone with experience in programing offered to take over the maintaining of the site.
The other day I browsed to my site and too my horror that the site had completely changed, visually - and it doesn't look good at least from a design point of view. I can't contact him, and there is no way to change the site because he has changed servers.
Help!Angry about website changes?You own this website? If so, you should have access to the account. If not, there isn't much you can do.Angry about website changes?If you had finished with his site and he paid you then its his responsiblity and not yours to fix it. He has to call you to fix it not the other way around. Stop thinking too much or you will have white hair soon.Angry about website changes?You say that you 'used to' be responsible for the site, which implies that you are no longer responsible for it which could mean that you have no way of getting it changed back to how it originally was. Also if you cannot contact the site owner then it is going to be incredibly difficult to do anything. If the website has a contact page you could try using that, or you could try using some standard emails to see if they get through like admin.at.websitename.com although you have no way of knowing if anyone checks the mail box. Also if you do talk to them then there is probably a reason for the change, and they may not want to budge on it. If you have a screenshot of the old site, or the original designs you could use those to show the clients instead and explain the original site has been modified by the people who own it.
I would think your best bet is to get hold of the owner of the site, not the developer. I am a web developer and often am asked to do things which I do not agree with and whilst I obviously advise clients as best I can sometimes they are adamant on what they want.
Also, you could do a whois which will give you details on who owns the domain and often an email address, or other useful contact information if the owner of the domain has not paid for domain privacy. You could try using that to get some contact info. I use this whois tool http://whois.domaintools.com
Good luck
