Website redesign guide
Website redesign: choose the changes that matter.
Your services have changed, mobile pages are awkward or updates have become difficult. Should you improve a few pages or rebuild the website? This guide helps compare the options, migration work and criteria for accepting the result.
Look at a complete customer journey
Can someone understand the service, check whether it suits them and send an enquiry? Do they receive a useful confirmation? Try the same journey on mobile and ask the people who handle enquiries where customers tend to get stuck.
Your own editing experience matters too. If a routine change requires rebuilding a page, that constraint belongs in the brief.
Use measurements to inform the decision
Compare important pages under defined conditions. PageSpeed Insights can help investigate loading performance, alongside real-world use and the site’s constraints.
Older reports may still mention Google Mobile-Friendly Test. That service has been retired. Mobile checks should examine the current layout and interactions rather than rely on an old pass or fail result.
Choose the scale of work
- Fix
- Address a broken form, missing information or a problem limited to a few pages.
- Improve
- Rework content, navigation or templates where the technical foundation still serves the business.
- Redesign
- Rebuild the structure and page system when the existing limitations prevent the required improvement.
Compare the total cost, migration effort and future maintenance, not just the visual change.
Connect the different parts of the project
The French resources Consultation SEO, Refonte WordPress, Audit UX and Maintenance site cover the linked subjects of search, WordPress redesign, user experience and maintenance.
Your project does not necessarily need four separate services. The proposal should select the work that solves the actual problem. See also our WordPress redesign approach.
Gather what needs to be kept
List the pages, content, images, forms and integrations. Identify the pages that bring enquiries and any commitments attached to publications or links.
Then define the recovery point, test environment and acceptance checks. The budget should distinguish design, writing, implementation, features, third-party costs and maintenance.
Questions and answers
Will a redesign automatically improve SEO?
No. It needs to preserve useful content and address specific problems. URLs, metadata and links are part of the migration work.
Can we keep the domain and page addresses?
Yes. Keeping them is the starting point. Any change should have a clear reason and an explicit migration plan.
Does a redesign require a different platform?
A redesign can retain the platform if it still meets your needs. We compare possible improvements with the cost of moving content, functions and editing workflows to another solution.
WordPress is one of Gloria’s implementation options. Moving to it should address a specific need; other platforms and integrations are assessed before any commitment to deliver the work.
Discuss your project
Tell us what is prompting the redesign and what you want to retain.
Discuss your project