Redesigns & rescues
A dated website is rarely a failure. It is usually a business that got busy. The content is there and the history is there, which means most of the hard part is already done.
A dated website is rarely a failure. It is usually a business that got busy. The content is there and the history is there, which means most of the hard part is already done.
You do not need to know which of these applies. Describing the symptom in plain words is enough, and diagnosis is our job.
Usually uncompressed images and a decade of accumulated scripts. Often the cheapest thing on this list to fix.
Built before mobile mattered, or built desktop-first and patched. Most of your visitors are seeing the broken version.
Flash, old PHP, an abandoned theme, a plugin whose author vanished. This one has a security clock on it.
The content is stale rather than wrong. Frequently a rewrite and a reskin rather than a rebuild.
Missing headers, no HTTPS, exposed admin. Visible to anyone who looks, including the people you'd rather didn't.
The person who built it is gone and took the login with them. More common than you'd think, and recoverable.
The reason to modernize rather than start over is that your site already has value in it. Throwing that away is the most expensive part of a bad redesign.
Words you paid for or wrote yourself. We migrate them rather than starting the blank page over.
URLs get mapped and redirected. A redesign that quietly drops your search position is a downgrade wearing a new coat.
Years of being findable is an asset. We preserve the parts of the old site that earned it.
Domain, DNS, hosting, analytics. Yours before, yours after, documented so you can hand them to anyone.
If the foundation is sound, we modernize what is there: the design, the speed, the security headers, the mobile layout. If it runs on something dated or genuinely insecure, a rebuild costs less than years of patching around it. That assessment is free, and it is the same answer whether or not it wins us a bigger project.
No sales pitch attached. Sometimes the honest answer is that your site needs a weekend of cleanup, and we would rather say that than sell you a rebuild.