Replacing an old site
Replace an old website that is not doing its job anymore
An old site is often not broken exactly, it is just slow, hard to read on a phone, or built years ago before mobile search was the default way most people find a business. A rebuild on the same domain gives the business a current site without losing the address people already know.
Replacing rather than starting from scratch also means there is usually real content to draw from, the business's actual services, past work, existing copy, which speeds up the brief: rather than starting with nothing, the conversation starts with what is worth keeping and what needs a proper rewrite.
What happens to your existing domain
The new site goes live on the same domain you already have. That is part of the standard build, live on your own domain, whether it is a brand new one or one that already carries years of history and search presence.
What to send when replacing an existing site
A link to the current site helps more than almost anything else at this stage, it shows what is worth keeping, what has aged badly, and what a customer is currently seeing. Beyond that, the same brief as any build: what the business does, the area it serves, and anything about the current site you specifically want changed or kept.
An old site that is showing its age, small text on a phone, a design from a previous decade, missing basics like a proper contact form, is one of the clearest cases for a rebuild rather than a patch-up, since fixing the underlying structure usually costs more effort than starting the build properly.
Pricing
Two fixed prices, one add-on
Five-page site
£250 one-off
Home, about, services, contact and one more page. Suits a business with one clear offer.
Ten-page site
£400 one-off
The same build standard with room for more: individual service pages, a proper FAQ page, more to show a visitor.
Something bigger
Contact us
More pages, a shop, online bookings, a customer portal, or anything that needs its own logins and integrations. Contact us and we quote for what is actually needed.
Replacing an old site
Questions
- Will replacing my old site affect my existing domain or search presence
- The new site is built and set up with the SEO basics on the same domain you already have, titles, structured data, a sitemap, all done properly. Nobody can promise how search rankings move afterwards, that depends on the market and time, but the basics that support them are done correctly from day one of the new site.
- Can you use content from my current site
- Yes, send the link at enquiry and the studio works from what is worth keeping alongside a fresh brief, rather than starting entirely from scratch or discarding content that is already doing its job.
- My old site was expensive, will the new one actually be better for less
- A fixed £250 or £400 price reflects the build process, not the quality of the result: the same mobile-first, SEO-basics-included standard applies regardless of what the previous site cost. An old, expensive site being slow or dated is usually a sign of its age, not proof that more spend was needed to fix it.
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Tell us about the business and what you need. The studio will come back with what it costs and what a preview would look like.