Convert Your Existing Website to WordPress

We take your existing website and recreate it in WordPress. Some reasons you might want to do this include:

• Update the look, feel and functionality of your site
• Manage your content yourself
• Add blogging/RSS capabilities to your site
• Gain SEO benefits and make implementing SEO easier

Some Examples of Converted Websites

Converting existing websites is the most customized work we do because every website is different, and depending on what you’ve got now, there might be a lot or only a little work to do to convert your site to WordPress.

Depending on the size and complexity of your existing site, your goals and your budget, your project will be one of the following types:

• Custom Websites (Start with a premium theme that gets you most of the way “there” and then customize it to your heart’s content. Add all the bells whistles you like.)

  Here’s an example:
  

  

  Bright Wings looks almost exactly like it did when it was a regular HTML site, but now Nancy can edit the content of her site herself – without having to know any HTML! Plus, she can implement SEO tactics herself with a minimum of fuss and blog to heart’s content. To the rest of the world, it looks like nothing much has changed, but for Nancy, a whole world of autonomy with her website has opened up.

• Ready-To-Go Websites (Choose a premium theme, use it as is, or add your own header image and CSS-based color scheme, if applicable.)
  Here is an example:
  This special interest group’s website was old, outdated, hard to update and just hadn’t kept up with the times. They needed a way for their non-technical membership to be able to update the site easily, and they wanted to be able to blog. Converting the site to WordPress gave them all of that, and more!
  
• Mini-sites/Blogs (Sales page, contact page, privacy policy page, thank you page using a custom sales page theme OR converting your blog from another blogging platform.)
  Here’s an example:
  We converted this Blogger blog to WordPress and themed it to match Stacey’s other, related sites. Now, she’s got the option to grow this blog into a full-blown website, if she likes, as well as take advantage of SEO and monetization options Blogger just won’t accomodate.

How It Works

Step 1: Preparation

You schedule a Demystification Consultation. You’ll save time, money and your sanity this way. So much so, we’ve made it the required first step. Your positive experience of us is too important to wiggle on this point.

You’ll know your price and what you get for it – in writing – before you start.

Step 2: Implementation

When your site goes up, you don’t get a bunch of blank pages. You get a complete, customized, working site. All the essential pages filled with your content, RSS and email subscription forms, contact form, and stat tracking.

You get all the necessary domain management done for you, including setting up your email accounts.

Step 3: Support

You get a technical staff who’ll talk to you. You have support available via email throughout the project and scheduled check-in calls at regular intervals to ensure your satisfaction.

Once your site is up, you take control. No more “waiting for the web person” to update your months-old content. Log in easily to your site any time, right from your browser. You can edit your text and manage pics with point-and-click ease.

You get free training videos and other resources on our client-only resources page, and free phone and email support for 30-days after your project is complete. (Phone support thereafter is billable at the current hourly rate. Quick email questions are free.) As a client, you’re eligible for discounts on products and services we introduce.

The Rock Clause

What’s a rock clause? Ever have a contractor come and dig a trench or a foundation for you? He gives you a price for the job, but adds a disclaimer about how that price does not include unexpected events like hitting rock. Hitting rock slows the whole project down and drives up the cost because trenchers and back hoes don’t dig through rock all that well. He’ll probably have to break out the dynamite and blow stuff up to get the rock out of the way. Fun, but costly.

Here’s our rock clause: If we hit rock, we’ll tell you right away, and together we’ll find the most expedient, least expensive way to blow the rock up and get it out of the way. We’ll even make it fun, if we can. But it will change the price of your project.