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Website redesign and modernisation in Craigavon
The most common way a redesign goes wrong is not the design. It is that the new site ships with new URLs, no redirect map, and traffic that took four years to build disappears in a fortnight. Preventing that is a checklist, not a talent, and it is included here rather than sold as an extra. For Craigavon businesses, quoted in GBP from $120, typically live in 5 days.
What website redesign and modernisation includes for a Craigavon business
Fixed scope, agreed in writing before development starts. From $120, typically live in 5 days.
- Full crawl of the existing site before anything changes, so nothing is lost by accident
- A URL-by-URL redirect map, in a single hop, tested before launch and again after
- Modernised responsive design built mobile-first, on the content you already rank for
- Content migration with headings, internal links and metadata preserved deliberately rather than by luck
- Core Web Vitals brought inside the thresholds during the rebuild — images, fonts and render path
- Structured data rebuilt to match the new page types
- Post-launch indexation check: Search Console coverage, sitemap resubmitted, 404s monitored
- 30 days of snag fixes after go-live
The terms for a British client
| Starting price | From $120, quoted and invoiced in GBP |
|---|---|
| Typical timeline | 5 days once content is supplied |
| Tax position | VAT at 20% once you are registered — my invoices are outside the scope of UK VAT and you account for them under the reverse charge |
| Data protection | UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 — resolved by a pre-signed DPA with a completed UK International Data Transfer Addendum |
| Payment rails available | Stripe, GoCardless for Direct Debit, and Klarna or Clearpay where basket sizes justify it |
| My day in Craigavon time | 05:00–14:00 — about 5 hours of overlap |
Why this matters for United Kingdom specifically
UK local search is the most saturated in the English-speaking world, so a merely competent site does not win the job — the quote form does. Every UK build I ship is specified around the enquiry step first and the homepage second.
How a Craigavon build is scoped before anything is written
Scope is fixed in writing before development starts, and the number in that document is the number on the invoice. For Craigavon projects that document lists every page, every form, every integration and every third-party account the site will touch — priced in GBP, not converted at the end from something else.
The reason this matters more than it sounds: almost every dispute in web development is a scope dispute wearing a different hat. "Can you just add" is how a three-day build becomes a three-week one. Fixing scope up front does not stop you changing your mind; it makes the cost of changing your mind visible before you commit to it, which is the only honest way to run a fixed price.
Professional services in Craigavon
Accountants, solicitors, consultants and agencies sell judgement, which cannot be photographed. What converts instead is specificity: the sectors you actually work in, the size of client you actually serve, and named people with real biographies. A professional services site full of stock imagery and the word "bespoke" is indistinguishable from every competitor in Craigavon.
Practically, the site's job is qualification rather than lead volume. Publishing your minimum engagement size loses you enquiries and saves you hours, and almost every practice I have built for concluded afterwards that it should have done it sooner.
Structured data that is missing, wrong, or quietly lying
Schema markup is how a search engine reads what a page means rather than only what it says. Missing it costs you rich results. Getting it wrong is worse: marking up review stars you do not have, or a LocalBusiness at an address that is not yours, risks a manual action rather than a ranking.
Every page I build carries schema matching what is actually on it and nothing beyond that. The restraint is deliberate — this page uses Service and areaServed rather than LocalBusiness, precisely because there is no physical presence in Craigavon to assert.
What I am not claiming about Craigavon
- I have no office, postal address or phone number in Craigavon
- I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
- I am not claiming existing clients in Craigavon specifically — my live work is listed on the work page and you can check it
- Nothing on this page is a guarantee of search rankings, which no developer can honestly offer
Website redesign and modernisation in Craigavon — common questions
- What payment methods can my Craigavon checkout accept?
- For United Kingdom: Stripe, GoCardless for Direct Debit, and Klarna or Clearpay where basket sizes justify it. The right combination depends on your average basket and your customers, and picking wrong is expensive — the payment method a buyer expects but cannot find is one of the most common reasons a checkout is abandoned at the final step.
- How long does a Craigavon project actually take?
- Three days for a business site, seven for a store, ten for a custom application. That holds because the process is fixed rather than improvised and because your content exists on day one. What stretches a build is almost never the code — it is waiting for copy, logos and photographs, so those are requested before the clock starts.
- What hours will you be available to us in Craigavon?
- My standard day lands at 05:00–14:00 your time — about 5 hours of genuine overlap with a normal Craigavon working day. That is enough for one reliable daily window rather than constant back-and-forth, so Craigavon projects run on written updates plus one scheduled call a week.
- Can you fix my existing site rather than rebuild it?
- Often, yes, and it is usually the cheaper answer. Speed problems, a broken mobile layout, a form that silently fails or missing structured data are all fixable on the site you already have. I will tell you which of the two you need after looking, and a rebuild only gets recommended when the fix would cost more than starting again.
- Do you provide ongoing maintenance after launch?
- Thirty days of snag fixes are included after launch at no extra cost — anything that does not work as specified gets fixed. Beyond that there are monthly plans for updates, backups, monitoring and small changes. They are optional and cancellable; a site handed over properly does not require a retainer to keep running.
- Will the site actually rank in Craigavon search results?
- The build handles what is technically controllable: crawlable HTML, correct headings, structured data, fast pages, a clean sitemap and Search Console set up on day one. Ranking also depends on your competitors, your domain's age and the links pointing at you, which no developer controls. Anyone guaranteeing a position is guessing or lying.
- What happens if I am not happy with the result?
- Work is delivered in milestones against a written scope, and you review each one on a staging URL before it is paid for. If the delivered milestone does not match the scope, it gets corrected before anything moves forward. That structure exists so disagreement is resolved at the stage it happens rather than at the end when it is expensive.
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The full service detail — process, deliverables, what is excluded and the FAQ — is on the main website redesign and modernisation page. Everything I build for Craigavon is on the Craigavon page, and every town in United Kingdom is on the United Kingdom coverage page.
Website redesign and modernisation in Craigavon — get a fixed quote
Send the brief and you get a reply within one business day, priced in GBP from $120. If website redesign and modernisation is not what your project actually needs, I will say so.
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- Hours
- Mon–Fri, 09:00–18:00 PKT — overlaps 05:00–14:00 UK, 00:00–09:00 US Eastern
- Booking
- Booking projects from October 2026