(Website migration)
MIGRATIONwithout losing a thing.
Your site, moved off WordPress or Webflow onto Astro and Sanity: faster, easier to edit, every address kept. Done in days, quoted by the size of the site.
“Jack was able to turn around such an incredible product with such short lead time.”
Brent ReedVice President, Reed Ventures
- First design within 24 hours
- “Incredibly close to the finished product”
- Would 100% recommend
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Hey, I'm Brent Reed with Reed Ventures. I recently worked with Jack to redesign our company website. From start to finish, Jack was amazing to work with, super responsive, delivered an amazing product. I'd say the most impressive part of the process was the fact that Jack was able to turn around such an incredible product with such short lead time. I think our initial website design came back within 24 hours of giving him the go-ahead, and it was incredibly close to the finished product. Really, really satisfied. Would 100% recommend Jack and beterdesign. We'll definitely be working with them again in the future. Thanks.
(In short)
WordPress and Webflow migration to Astro and Sanity
beterdesign migrates websites from WordPress and Webflow to Astro and Sanity, hosted on Cloudflare and looked after by the studio. Pages, posts, images and every old address move across, so links and search rankings carry over. Recent migrations: Reed Ventures from WordPress in 48 hours; VQ Consulting from Webflow in one day, 20% faster; Beth Keyse from Webflow in four working days, with 151 blog posts; Fonemika from Webflow, keeping the searches that already brought families in. The studio moved its own site, beterdesign.com, off Webflow first. Each migration is quoted by the size of the site.
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Faster
Plain, static pages from Cloudflare
Astro builds every page as clean HTML and sends almost no JavaScript, then Cloudflare serves it from close to each visitor. Nothing loads that a visitor does not need, so a site has nothing left to slow it down. VQ Consulting’s Webflow site already scored 100 on Lighthouse, and the new one is still 20% faster.
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Easier to edit
Sanity, or one message in Slack
In Sanity every page, post and project is a clean document: title, text, images. The layout is not what you edit, so nobody can break it. Or skip the editor: write what you need in your Slack channel and the studio assistant makes the change on the live site. Reed Ventures sends its changes that way.
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Found, not lost
Every URL kept or redirected
Before anything moves, the old site is mapped: pages, posts, images and what already ranks. Old addresses are kept or redirected, titles and structured data are set up, and the content is written so Google and AI assistants can read and quote it.
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Designed, not templated
Keep the look, or improve it
Design, typography and motion are built to measure, not bent into a theme. Keep the current design, refresh it inside the brand, or redesign it on the way: Reed Ventures and Fonemika kept their brands and got a much better site around them.
Five sites moved, and what they got.
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Beth Keyse
From WebflowFour working days. 165 pages, 151 blog posts and 201 images moved into Sanity, the hotel atlas carried over and a new design on the way. Her blog kept its addresses.
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Reed Ventures
From WordPress48 hours from an ageing WordPress site to a fast Astro site, with all 34 projects and every revision the family asked for. Changes now go through their studio assistant in Slack.
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Fonemika
From WebflowThe old site already ranked for “logoped Voždovac”. Every old address was kept or redirected, eighteen areas of work became pages the centre edits in Sanity, and the contact form finally sends.
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VQ Consulting
From WebflowOne working day, design, content, blog and services included. 20% faster than a Webflow site that already scored 100 on Lighthouse.
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beterdesign.com
From WebflowThe studio moved its own site first: off Webflow, onto Astro and Sanity, with changes that go live in minutes.
Faster, and theirs to run.
- Luxury travel advisor
Beth Keyse
A full migration from Webflow to Astro and Sanity in four working days, with a redesign as a gift: 151 blog posts, a hotel atlas and a new editorial look for a luxury travel advisor.
Case study → - Real estate developer · 48-hour rebuild
Reed Ventures
A family-owned Delaware developer moved from WordPress to a fast, fully editable Astro site in 48 hours: same brand, all 34 projects, every revision in.
Case study → - Speech therapy centre · Belgrade
Fonemika
A warm, calm website for a speech therapy and special education centre in Belgrade: the same brand, two parent quizzes and a page for every area of work.
Case study → - Consulting site · 24h build
VQ Consulting
A full business consulting site designed, developed and shipped in under 24 hours. 100 performance across the board.
Case study →
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Audit
Day one
We read the current site from the inside: every page, post, image, form and URL, and what already brings visitors from search.
- URL map
- Content inventory
- What ranks
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Move
Content into Sanity in one pass
Pages, posts and images are extracted and loaded into Sanity as clean, structured documents, so 151 posts take no longer than one.
- Pages
- Posts
- Images
- Forms
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Build
Astro, designed to measure
The site is rebuilt in Astro, keeping your design or improving it, and checked at nine screen sizes on every template.
- Astro
- Design
- Nine-size QA
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Launch
Redirects, SEO / AEO, Cloudflare
Old addresses redirect, the sitemap and structured data go live, and the site switches to your domain on Cloudflare.
- 301 redirects
- Schema
- Cloudflare
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Run
Your studio assistant in Slack
We connect your editor and your studio assistant in Slack, and test both on the live site with a real content edit and a real code change before we call it done.
- Sanity
- Slack assistant
- Maintenance
One ecosystem, one studio behind it.
After the move, everything your site needs lives in one place, set up and looked after by beterdesign: no plugins, no separate hosting company, no developer to chase.
- AstroThe framework that builds your pages: fast, static, designed to measure.
- SanityThe editor for your content: pages, posts, projects and images, without touching the layout.
- CloudflareHosting on a global network, close to every visitor, with security in front of it.
- SlackYour own studio assistant: ask in plain words, and the change goes live on the site.
- beterdesignOne studio behind all of it: hosting, updates, SEO and support, on a monthly plan.
Moving from a specific platform.
Quoted by size, not by guesswork.
Every migration is quoted by the size of the site: how many pages and posts, how many languages, what has to keep working (forms, booking, a shop) and whether the design stays or changes. Send the address through the form and we reply with a quote within two business days.
- Pages and posts
- Languages
- Forms, booking or a shop
- Keep the design, or redesign it
From the journal.
Questions about website migration
(01)What is a website migration?
Moving a website off one platform and onto another without losing what it has built: pages, posts, images, forms and the addresses that search engines already know. beterdesign moves sites from WordPress and Webflow to Astro, with Sanity for the content and Cloudflare for hosting.
(02)How long does a migration take?
Days, not months. VQ Consulting moved from Webflow in one working day, Reed Ventures from WordPress in 48 hours, and Beth Keyse, with 151 blog posts, in four working days. The exact time depends on the size of the site, and you get it with the quote.
(03)How much does a website migration cost?
It is quoted by the size of the site: the number of pages and posts, languages, integrations such as forms, booking or a shop, and whether the design stays, gets refreshed or is redesigned. Send the address through the migration form and we reply with a quote within two business days.
(04)Will I lose my Google rankings?
The migration is built to keep them. Every old address is kept or redirected to its new page, titles, descriptions and structured data are set up, and the sitemap goes live with the site. Fonemika’s Webflow site already ranked for “logoped Voždovac”, and it moved without losing the searches that bring families in.
(05)Can you keep my current design?
Yes. The design can stay as it is, be refreshed inside the brand, or be redesigned on the way. Reed Ventures and Fonemika kept their brands and got a better site around them; Beth Keyse got a new design.
(06)How do I edit the site after the migration?
Two ways. In Sanity, every page, post and image is a clean document you edit and publish, and the site updates about a minute later. Or write what you need in your Slack channel, and your studio assistant makes the change on the live site.
(07)Why Astro and Sanity instead of WordPress or Webflow?
Astro serves plain, static pages with almost no JavaScript, so sites are fast without plugins or caching tricks. Sanity keeps content apart from the layout, so editing cannot break the design. Together on Cloudflare there are no plugin updates to manage and nothing in the way of speed.
(08)Do you migrate online shops?
When a large catalog is the business, WordPress with WooCommerce can be the right place to stay, and we will tell you so. Brand, content and portfolio sites with light commerce are the ones that gain the most from Astro and Sanity.
(09)Do you migrate from Wix or Squarespace?
Most migrations are from WordPress and Webflow. Other platforms are reviewed one by one: send the address through the form and we tell you honestly whether the move makes sense.