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Website Platform Migration

Website migration moves the site to a better-fitting platform while protecting its pages, addresses and ownership.

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Move the website to a better-fitting platform while preserving its approved pages, content and working addresses. The old site stays available through testing, and every address is mapped before the final changeover.

How this gets fixed

The same website moved to a different platform

A website platform migration rebuilds the approved site inside a different builder, content management system or coded setup. A CMS, or content management system, is the editing area used to change approved words, images and pages without editing code.

The available routes include builder to builder, builder to code with a CMS, and code to a builder. The route is chosen by editing needs, platform limits, recurring costs, ownership and the functions that need to keep working.

What people move, and why

  • Off a builder that has become expensive, or that they have outgrown
  • Off a site nobody can get into, or that a past developer still controls
  • Onto a platform their team can actually update
  • From code to a builder, or from a builder to code, once they know which they need
  • Told honestly when moving is not worth what it costs you
Scope

What this service includes

Included in your service
  • What comes across
  • Every page, in the same order, so nothing quietly disappears
  • Your text, your photos and your files
  • Forms, and where the submissions go
  • Blog posts, with their dates and their addresses
  • Your domain and your email moved on a planned cutover, with the old setup left answering until the new one is proven
  • What happens to search during the move
  • A redirect map: every old address pointed at its new one, before launch
  • The pages that actually get found, identified first, so they are the ones checked line by line
  • Search Console watched after the move, which is Google's free tool showing which searches bring people to the site, so a drop is caught in days rather than months
  • Positions move while a search engine processes a change.That is outside anybody's control, and no date is promised
  • What this is not
  • A migration is not a redesign. It is the same site somewhere better
  • If you want it to look different as well, that is a redesign and it is quoted as one
  • What will not come across, told to you before you start, not after
Related work quoted separately
  • A new visual design, new layout or new sections
  • Rewriting the page copy or producing new images
  • Repairing search problems that already existed before the move
  • A promise that search positions will stay unchanged while search engines process the move
  • Platform, hosting, domain, plugin or licensed-software fees
  • Custom functions the destination platform does not support
Your quote

What shapes your quote

Start with the standard service. Add only the work your business needs.

Standard starting point
  • Builder to code with a CMSThe approved pages are rebuilt as code and the CMS supplies the editing area
Add only what you need
  • Each page beyond fiveAdded to the written scope by page count
  • Builder to builder or code to builderThe destination platform and amount of manual rebuilding change the scope
  • Website and email DNS cutoverDNS is the record that sends the domain to the correct website and email services
  • A new look as wellBringing the same site across is a migration. Changing how it looks is a redesign, quoted as one
  • Content the old platform will not exportWhat has to be rebuilt by hand gets named before approval
  • An email or text signup form connected to your platformThe form and the connection to Mailchimp, Klaviyo or the approved platform are separate additions
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The process

How it runs, step by step

  • Tell me what is going on The form below. What you have now, and what you want instead.
  • A short call, if it needs one Only where the scope cannot be settled in writing.
  • You get the scope and the price In writing, with what is included and what is not.
  • You approve it Nothing starts before you have agreed the scope and the price.
  • The work happens You are told when something needs a decision from you, and nothing else.
  • Handover What was done, where it lives, and what to do next, written down.

More on how working together works.

FAQ

Questions about this service

Will I lose my rankings?

Positions move while a search engine processes a move, and the redirect map is what carries the old addresses to the new ones. Nobody controls the outcome, so what gets controlled is the preparation and the watching afterwards.

Will my site be down?

The new site gets built and checked before anything switches, so the visible change is the switch itself. Domain and email moves are scheduled with you, the record lifetimes are shortened beforehand so the change takes effect quickly, and the old setup is left answering until the new one is proven.

What if I do not control the current accounts?

Account Ownership and Access Audit identifies what the business controls and which recovery steps are available before the migration is approved.

Which platform is the right one for me?

The recommendation follows who edits the site, which functions must continue, the platform's limits, the recurring cost, ownership and how easily the site may need to move again.

Send me the details

I read it and reply with the scope and the price before any work starts.

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Get a quote

Tell me the result you want and where I can see the business now. I use that information to identify the most useful service or package and decide whether I can quote it in writing. If one missing detail changes the work or price, I will ask for that detail or suggest a short call.

What would help most?

Pick at least one. More than one is fine.

Answer a few more if you want a more specific first reply

What happens next: I review the links and details, then reply within two business days with the best next step, any one question I still need answered, or a written quote when the scope is already clear.

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