Website Redesign

Website Redesign,
Done Carefully

Rebuilding a site that already exists is a different job from starting fresh. There's usually something worth protecting - existing pages, existing search visibility - and that shapes how the work is approached.

A Redesign Is Partly a Migration Job

The visible part of a redesign is the design. The part that causes problems afterwards usually isn't - it's what happens to the existing pages, their addresses, and the content search engines have already indexed.

When URLs change without anything pointing the old ones to the new, previously indexed pages stop resolving and links from other sites lead nowhere. Content that was quietly bringing in visitors sometimes gets removed during a tidy-up because nobody checked what it was doing.

Which is why a redesign is worth approaching with the existing site properly understood first. What that involves depends on how big the site is and what shape it's currently in - easier to assess by looking at it than by describing it here.

What This Usually Involves

A general outline. What actually applies to your project is worked out together, before anything is agreed.

01

Looking at the current site

Understanding what's there now - the pages, the structure, and what's already working.

02

Deciding what carries over

Working out which content and pages should be kept, and what genuinely needs changing.

03

Designing and rebuilding

The new design applied over a structure that keeps hold of what mattered on the old site.

04

Moving across carefully

Handling old addresses, checking things over before launch, and keeping an eye on it afterwards.

Website Redesign FAQs

Some movement while search engines reprocess a changed site is normal. Larger, lasting drops usually trace back to something specific - old addresses not being handled, content disappearing, or the new site behaving differently. Those are the things worth planning around, and how much risk there is depends on your current site. Send me the URL and I'll tell you what I see.
Usually that's the sensible starting assumption, particularly for pages that are already bringing people in. What's worth keeping, improving or dropping is a decision to make with the current site in front of us rather than in advance.
Not necessarily. It depends on whether your current hosting is part of the problem or working perfectly well. Worth checking before assuming either way - happy to take a look.
It depends heavily on the size of the site and how much content is involved, so any number quoted before seeing it would be a guess. Give me the URL and a sense of what you're hoping to change, and you'll get a realistic answer.

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Thinking About a
Redesign?

Send me your current URL. I'll take a look and tell you honestly what I'd be careful about - including whether a full redesign is the right move at all.