Do you have an existing website or blog that is outdated and needs a facelift? No problem. Here are a few elements and pitfalls of that process.
Access Issues
Above all, since someone else designed your original site, we will need to get access to that original account in order to make any changes.
First and foremost, we will need the login credentials (i.e., the User Name and Password) for various elements of the existing site, namely:
- The site’s domain name (website or URL) and registrar (the company from which you or someone else bought the domain).
- The web host. Here we need the LINK to the account with the company where it is hosted.
- If you did not originally set up this account and do not have access to all this information, we will need to find out who has the correct login credentials.
Worst Case Scenario
If you are absolutely unable to obtain any of this information, we will set up an entirely new website for you from scratch with new domain name/registrar, web host, and design to meet your mission needs.
Platforms
My main design preference is the WordPress platform. “Old” sites (five years or older) are more likely to be WordPress sites, but like everything in the tech world, that is rapidly changing.
If your site was designed on one of the more current non-WordPress platforms (such as Wix, Weebly, Squarespace, or Shopify, among others), I can usually help you on those platforms too, but I will need to look at them carefully to verify that.
Keep in mind that if the website is on a non-WordPress platform, you will have to pay the costs required by that platform, which are not my costs but the platform’s particular charges. My services remain free.
If a web platform is beyond my capabilities as a designer, I will be happy to build a new website for you from scratch on WordPress.
Facelift or Remake
A visual upgrade of your website ranges from making a few tweaks to a total redesign. Sometimes a “facelift” is just a matter of changing design templates, fonts, images, and colors within your original plan.
On the other hand, if you need more sophistication or functionality, we can or completely remake the website on the WordPress platform as a new and improved version of the old design.
I’ve done both for clients before, and it always works well. In fact, it seems to give them a new lease on cyber life when they see the old website transformed into the new.
Ministries and communities change over time, so in re-designing a blog or website, there is almost always a need to expand it to fit new pastoral needs.
- New content in addition to what you’ve been posting up to this point
- New technology (Audio / Visual above all)
- New connections (sign-up forms, newsletters, feedback, etc.)
- Downloadable materials, and sometimes,
- Even sales.
No problem, Father! Virtual reality offers almost unlimited possibilities for what you need to get your word out.
Your Mission
Above all, this website will be dedicated to saving souls, so we will consecrate the work from the start so that it is pleasing to God and beneficial to His Kingdom.
