Client wants 6-yr-old website device-friendly???

I'm starting to get requests from my clients whose website I may have designed 7 years ago. They want it to be device-friendly. So I'm searching to see where to start. Yes, I previewed my Dreamweaver files in Device Central... but what advice can you give me? I do some complex graphic layouts with drop-down menus. I don't think it's possible to just retrofit an old site, is it? Site in question is http://www.manitowoc.info. Another one is http://www.hornerflooring.com. THANK YOU! I googled and just don't find info on where to start!

Re-do. Some links to help get you started:
MOBILE WEB SITE DESIGN
CSS Liquid layouts for desktops to iPhones
http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-multi-column-liquid-layouts
Build iPhone, iTouch, iPad web sites & apps (no Flash allowed)
http://iwebkit.net/
http://mashable.com/2009/11/26/mobile-web-design/
http://www.noupe.com/how-tos/mobile-web-design-tips-and-best-practices.html
TESTING
iPhone simulator - (on-line)
http://www.testiphone.com/
Opera Mini Mobile Simulator (on-line)
http://www.opera.com/mini/demo/
Google Android Emulator (download)
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html
Palm OS Emulator (download)
http://www.tucows.com/preview/261443
Mobile Phone Emulator (on-line emulators for WAP, i-mode™, PDA and J2ME)
http://waprunner.wap3.net/emu_wap3/p/wap3/
Blackberry Smartphone Simulators (download)
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/resources/simulators.jsp
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
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