Harborline Web: moving your website without losing what works
Many small business websites were set up years ago on a platform that made sense at the time. Since then the plugins have multiplied, updates have become something to dread, and the site feels slower every season. Moving to something lighter sounds good, but the fear of breaking things keeps a lot of owners where they are.
Harborline Web exists to make that move calm and predictable. We start by taking stock of what the current site actually has: every page, post, image and form, the addresses search engines know about, and the handful of pages that bring in most of the visitors. Nothing gets moved until we know what matters.
Next we choose the new home. For most of our clients that means a modern static or hybrid setup, where pages are built ahead of time and served from a fast network. It is cheaper to run, much harder to hack, and far quicker for visitors. Content can still be edited in a friendly dashboard, so the people who update the site day to day do not need to learn anything technical.
The move itself is careful work. Content is carried across and cleaned up on the way. Old addresses are redirected to their new equivalents, so bookmarks and search results keep working. Images are resized and compressed. Forms are tested by actually sending them.
After launch we check every internal link, watch search console for errors, and compare traffic with the weeks before the move. If something slipped, we fix it quickly.
If your website has become a source of worry rather than customers, Harborline Web can help you move it somewhere simpler, one careful step at a time.
Harborline Web helps small businesses move their websites to faster, simpler platforms without losing pages, search rankings or sleep. We plan the move, carry it out and check every link afterwards.