AryDecide whether your existing website needs a small repair, a refresh or a rebuild by checking content, editing limits, mobile layouts and inquiry paths.
Name what needs to change before choosing a package
You may know your website needs work without knowing how much work it needs. The pages look dated. An offer has changed. Something is awkward on your phone. Starting again can sound easier than working through the details.
Before deciding, list the specific problems and the pages affected. Include what still works. Your current domain, useful writing, familiar booking link and existing pages may all be worth keeping.
Use three questions: can the current structure support the change, can you maintain it afterward and can the important steps still be verified? Those answers give you a more useful scope than the age of the website.
Choose a small repair for a defined problem
A repair makes sense when the problem is limited and the rest of the page still does its job. A button might lead to the wrong place. An embedded form might be too wide on a phone. A short piece of text might need updating.
Write the repair as something you can check: the contact button opens the intended form on desktop and mobile. That gives you a clear result to review.
Bloomwired's Small website fixes starts at $197 for an agreed list, with up to two hours of fixes and checks combined. We check the work first. A deeper repair receives a separate quote.
Choose a refresh when the existing structure is useful
A refresh suits pages with the right basic content and arrangement that need clearer wording or better presentation. You might adjust spacing, font sizes, images and mobile layouts while keeping the existing page structure.
- Your main offer still belongs on the current page.
- The existing sections can explain it with light editing.
- Your editor allows the needed layout and mobile changes.
- Your form or booking connection can stay, with checks.
- You can agree the affected pages and changes in advance.
Our website polish work for Kym M Stewart's Heart and Soul Woman is part of the Heart and Soul Woman project story. Website polish is a useful category when the work fits the current site.
Our Website refresh package starts at $350 for up to two existing pages, with up to six sections each. It covers layout, spacing, fonts, mobile refinements and light editing of existing copy. Larger rewrites and rebuilds are quoted separately.
Consider a rebuild when the structure limits the work
A rebuild deserves consideration when the current pages cannot support the business you need to explain. Your offers may need separate pages. Editing may require help every time. The platform may lack a required connection, even after checking its current supported options.
Ask for the reason in plain words. Which change cannot be made sensibly on the existing site? What would a rebuild let you do? What content, accounts and connections must move?
Compare the total scope, including writing, forms, access, ongoing software and handover. A new design can still leave you with the same unanswered inquiry if nobody checks what happens after submission.
Keep a record of what needs to stay
Before rebuilding, save a list of existing page addresses, downloads and booking destinations. Decide which addresses can remain the same. For changed URLs, Google's site move guidance recommends mapping old addresses to their replacements, setting appropriate permanent redirects and testing them. Search visibility may fluctuate during a move.
Ask who will check the old links after launch. Include links used in emails, profiles and course materials. Do not assume that changing a website's design automatically preserves those destinations.
Keep a copy of the current site and agree how to restore it if a launch check fails. The details depend on your hosting and platform.
Preparing to replace the live site? Use our website redesign SEO checklist to plan old links, domain settings, inquiry tests and handover.
Use this decision and handover checklist
- List the affected pages and the specific problems.
- Separate necessary fixes from changes you would simply prefer.
- Confirm what the current editor and connected tools support.
- Agree the content, page structure and links to preserve.
- Compare repair, refresh and rebuild scopes against that list.
- Review the result on desktop and a narrow phone screen.
- With approved test details, check the form, receipt and booking path.
- Confirm you can make the routine edits you will need afterward.
Bloomwired's One-page website starts at $797, using your existing brand, with up to eight sections and one inquiry form or existing booking connection. A Business website starts at $1,500 for up to six agreed content pages. New branding, calendars and email sequences are separate work. Software and hosting costs are confirmed in the quote.
If you are unsure which scope fits, use the free website check as a starting point. Then agree the changes in writing. Keep what works and make the needed work specific.
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Written by Ary at Bloomwired. Practical recommendations reflect the scoped work described here; confirm your own settings before changing them.
