A redesign that turns the current site into the site the business needs now.
Most redesigns start with the same signal: the business has grown, but the site still reflects an older version of the offer, brand, buyer, or operating model. The work is stronger than the website representing it. From a focused refresh to a fuller rebuild with booking, CRM, or AI integrations.
The current site is the version of the business from a few years ago.
Most redesigns start with the same signal: the site no longer matches the business the buyer is about to meet. Sometimes the brand has moved on. Sometimes the offer, audience, or operations have changed. Sometimes the build itself is holding the next version back.
The brand has moved on, but the site has not.
Photography, copy, colors, typography, or positioning still belong to the previous version of the business. The team hesitates before sending the URL because the site no longer makes the right introduction.
The site predates how the business works today.
Service lines have changed, pricing has shifted, the audience has sharpened, or the sales motion is different. The site is still explaining the business as it used to be.
The build cannot support what the business needs next.
The platform may still be fine, but the current template, theme, or setup makes it hard to add a booking flow, calculator, AI agent, member area, or better editing workflow.
The site is slow.
The team has compressed images, added caching, tried plug-ins, or worked around the platform, but the site still feels heavy. The redesign becomes the chance to fix the structure instead of patching symptoms.
Search visibility has plateaued.
The site is held back by old structure, thin pages, weak internal links, missing schema, or a migration history nobody wants to touch. The redesign is the chance to fix the SEO architecture, not just the visuals.
Living with a dated site has a cost.
The cost is rarely a single line item. It shows up as missed conversions, colder referrals, weaker sales conversations, and team time spent working around the site instead of using it.
Buyers leaving before they make contact.
A dated site can make the business feel smaller, less current, or less credible than it really is. Good-fit buyers may decide the offer is not for them before they ever reach out.
A credibility hit on every outreach and referral.
Every introduction, prospect call, profile link, and press mention eventually points back to the site. If the site feels behind, the trust built elsewhere has to work harder.
A team that has stopped using the site as a tool.
Marketing works around the site. Sales avoids linking to it. Updates move to PDFs, decks, social posts, or emails because the website is too hard to change or too weak to send.
Compounding SEO drag.
Old information architecture, outdated schema, weak internal links, and legacy URLs keep accumulating. The longer the redesign waits, the more carefully the next build has to preserve what works while fixing what is holding the site back.
Moves that turn the redesign into a working site.
The studio runs redesigns as one engagement across design system, build, content structure, and SEO preservation. One scope, one timeline, and one team responsible for the work through launch.
Design system carried into the build.
Typography, color, spacing, components, and logo use are defined before the build extends them across the site.
New information architecture mapped before page design.
Audience, offer, conversion path, and content structure are decided before the visual work starts.
Page-by-page rebuild on a stack the business can keep running.
Each page is redesigned and rebuilt on a setup that fits how the business needs to edit, maintain, and extend the site after launch.
Content migration done deliberately.
Existing copy is reviewed, edited, rewritten, or preserved based on what the page needs to do. Content with search value is handled carefully so the redesign does not throw away useful equity.
SEO preservation runs inside the engagement.
Redirects are mapped before launch. Titles, descriptions, schema, internal links, image alts, and high-value URLs are reviewed as part of the redesign, not treated as a separate handoff.
Wondering whether the platform should stay or move?
A 30-minute call reviews the current site, what needs to change, and whether the redesign can happen on the existing stack.
A redesigned site the business can keep using.
Every redesign should protect the same three things: a site the team can manage, faster pages, and the search value the old site already earned.
A site the team can keep running after launch.
Editor access, documentation, and handoff are included so the team can add a page, update a hero, or change pricing without needing the studio for every edit.
Faster pages.
The redesign is built around a clean structure, lighter pages, and stronger Core Web Vitals. Black Salt Room hit Lighthouse 100 across Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO on mobile and desktop.
Existing search value protected.
Redirects are mapped, schema and metadata are reviewed, and Search Console is monitored through the first month after launch.
How the work moves.
Phase 1: Brief and audit
Document the current site, search baseline, conversion path, platform constraints, and new information architecture.
Phase 2: Design system and IA
Define the design system, reusable components, and content structure before page design begins.
Phase 3: Page-by-page design and content
Design each page around the new structure while copy is reviewed, edited, rewritten, or preserved where needed.
Phase 4: Build and SEO preservation
Build the site on the chosen stack, with redirects, metadata, schema, internal links, and priority URL handling included during development.
Phase 5: Launch and first-month monitoring
Run launch QA, crawl the new site, verify redirects and schema, submit through Search Console, and monitor the first month with direct studio support.
Decision references for this engagement.
Official resources that clarify platform limits, migration risk, or launch requirements before a buyer commits.
- Google: site moves with URL changes
Official guidance on preserving rankings through a redesign that changes URLs.
- Core Web Vitals overview (web.dev)
The performance baseline every redesign targets at launch.
- schema.org overview
Structured-data types the redesign carries forward and extends.
Things worth knowing.
Does the studio do redesigns on the same platform, or always rebuild on something new?
Will my rankings hold through the redesign?
Does the team get editor access after launch?
What if I want to refresh the brand identity at the same time?
How long does a redesign take?
How much does a redesign cost?
Related work across the studio.
A new site, not a deck of mocks.
Send the current site and the constraint. The first call settles whether the right move is a redesign, a platform escape, or a from-scratch build.
