I often don't recommend Joomla for individuals who have limited experience with CMS' for this very reason. Even though it's a very powerful tool, if there isn't a tutorial or if the designer isn't on the ball with maintenance, this is exactly what happens.
I recommend changing your website over to Wordpress as it is much easier and straightforward to use. It also doesn't hurt to ask your designer if he happen to have a tutorial/guide on how to use the Joomla system where you could follow step by step on how make content edits yourself.
He wants you to purchase Adobe Creative Suites 3 to learn and use to perform site modifications? That's an unnecessary expense in my opinion. Shouldn't the CMS have a built in WYSIWYG editor that helps with content editing? If you do need to create custom graphics to go along with your post, I often recommend Gimp. It's a powerful tool and it's free!
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