Website Migrations
Moving, rebuilding or re-platforming websites
Secure and seamless Website Migrations
At I-Finity, we offer seamless and secure website migration services helping customers who need to move or re-platform their existing website to a new CMS and hosting provider. Often it’s an opportunity to upgrade the look, feel, revise the content, introduce feature enhancements or consider a complete redesign.
Whether you’re transitioning to a new Content Management System (CMS) or new hosting service, our technical experts have a robust and smooth process in migrating websites whilst keeping your existing website operational with minimal downtime during the switch from old to new.
Website Migration Services For Your Business
Website migration services involve moving, rebuilding, or re-platforming your website’s functionality, design and content to either a new or updated version of a CMS. During a migration the project will involve rebuilding all web pages, header, footer, navigation, forms, functionality such as site search, secure member area etc.
When planning a website migration you may wish to consider:
- Moving to an up to date and open-source CMS platform – particularly if your moving away from a proprietary CMS platform
- Reviewing the current navigation and URL structure
- Security ensuring use of a security certificate with a secure connection i.e. HTTPS
- Using latest and current technology with consideration to other internal systems that may benefit from an integration with the website e.g. CRM for website leads
- Updating your design either as a light refresh or a complete redesign
- Consider what features, capabilities and content will drive the most user benefits for your website visitors
You will find it’s an excellent opportunity to strengthen your brand, optimise for SEO, and enhance user experiences. Sometimes it makes sense to migrate all your website content, other times it’s an opportunity to reshape your content, how it’s structured and presented within the navigational elements of the website.
Why Move Your Website?
Current platform is out of support and unsupported
Move away from a proprietary platform for more control
Your current platform has limitations that doesn’t allow your website to grow or scale to support your business.
Why Choose I-Finity As Your Website Migration Consultants?
Website migrations can be complex – especially for large sites or ecommerce migrations.
Our proven robust processes and technical approaches to website migrations results in minimal disruption, preserved SEO and improved website experiences for both content editors and end users.
We provide:
- Extensive Experience: Our team has a proven track record in managing a variety of website migrations, including migrations from proprietary CMS platforms, from WordPress platforms where no back-office access was an option to managing extremely dated websites with vulnerable technology.
- Umbraco Experts: Our deep technical knowledge of Umbraco Content Management System (CMS) provides you with a commercially supported open source platform that is built for complete flexibility and customisation to meet your migration goals.
- Trusted Partnerships: We work closely with industry leading technology partners, including Microsoft and Umbraco, to offer our customers with reliable and secure technology platforms and frameworks.
- Cybersecurity Focus: We are Cyber Essentials Plus Certified, where we adopt a security by design approach. This ensures everything we design, build, test, support and host as part of your website migration project incorporates security best practices in every stage to keep your website and data safe.
I-Finity's Website Migration Approach
- Pre-migration audit: Before migration begins, our team audits your current website to understand its technical health, structure, and overall performance. This identifies any risks and uncovers opportunities for improvement.
- SEO Considerations: A migration of any size should preserve your existing search presence and manage potential URL redirects, with a website move key practices need to take place to inform search engines. At I-Finity, we often partner with an SEO agency to ensure all SEO value is retained and improved upon. CMS platform migration
Changing platforms? It doesn’t have to be daunting. We can move your website to a new CMS like Umbraco a .Net based CMS ensuring every aspect is carefully planned and transitioned whilst prioritising data integrity, functionality, and user experience.
- Accessibility: Website accessibility is important for providing inclusive access to your site and ensuring there are no barriers to users wanting to access your site and interact with your content. A migration is a good time to review how accessible your design and current website is to ensure anything that fails is corrected and improved upon within the new build. During a migration, we recommend an initial accessibility audit to inform the website migration project.
- Content and asset transfer: A migration is more than just code. We handle the meticulous transfer of your content — including images, files, and media — ensuring everything moves exactly where it should. We will use a combination of automated and manual transfer of content as required to keep your content and media assets intact.
- Staging site deployment and QA: Testing is a critical safeguard before switching over to the new migrated website. . We provision a staging site that mirrors your production environment, where we deploy all code changes too and this is where we move all content too. This allows our team to test and quality-check everything for a seamless launch. We provide this staging environment for you to see the progress, review the website and we will carry out any required CMS training with you in this environment.
- Analytics, tracking, and goal migration: We carry over your analytics, tracking setups, and goal conversions so you can continue measuring success post-migration. Our team ensures these systems are intact and fully functional from the day your new migrated website goes live.
- Post-launch support and performance reporting: A successful website migration plan doesn’t end at launch. Our team will remain available to provide any post-launch support, resolve any emerging issues, and report on performance. This helps you stay informed and confident as your website evolves on its new platform.
Website Migration Case Studies
Eat IT Drink IT: CMS Redevelopment and Migration
With no backend access to their previous CMS, Eat IT Drink IT required more functionality, scale and performance. We rebuilt their WordPress CMS onto Umbraco CMS to provide the flexibility and performance needed. The lack of backend access didn’t hinder the migration process; all the design elements were preserved within the rebuild.
Chris Ceaser Photography: Website Migration from a proprietary CMS
Previous website built on an old bespoke platform had over 2,000 images each held within a single web page along with supporting summary pages containing text and associated metadata. All this data needed to be migrated over to the new website therefore we built a custom console application to automate the placement of content into the newly built Umbraco CMS website we delivered.
GradFinale: Ecommerce Website Migration with API Integrations
We supported GradFinale in redesigning their ecommerce website, whilst integrating with their existing CRM and legacy backend systems for business continuity. The rebuild delivered fully responsive and secure website with improved search functionality.
