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Website redesign: when it is worth it, and when it is not.

A 2016 site is not necessarily due for a rebuild, and a 2023 site sometimes is. What counts is what the visitor experiences on their phone, and what Google understands. Here is how I decide, and what it costs when the answer is yes.

Five signs a redesign is due

01It reads badly on a phone

Tiny text, overflowing menu, buttons you miss. Most of your visitors are on a phone; if they have to zoom, they leave.

02It takes more than three seconds to load

Uncompressed images, hero video, accumulated plugins. Every extra second sends a share of visitors away, and Google measures it.

03It says neither where you are nor what you do

A homepage that talks about “passion” and “quality” without naming the trade or the town receives no local searches.

04The form brings nothing

Either it is broken, or it asks fifteen fields, or requests land in a mailbox nobody reads. You do not know because nobody complained.

05The CMS has not been updated

A 2019 WordPress with twenty plugins is an open door. A redesign fixes the problem at the root instead of patching it.

When I will tell you no

If your site is recent, fast, readable, and the problem is a text that does not convince or a missing page, a redesign is money thrown away. A few pages rewritten or added, at CHF 120 a page, settle it.

If your site receives enquiries and you do not know where they come from, we look at the statistics first. A redesign without knowing what works risks breaking what works.

The visibility test, free and without sign-up, gives a first answer in one minute. The thirty-minute call gives the second.

Test your current site

What is kept, what is rebuilt

The domain name

Kept, and put back in your name if it is not. Nothing changes for your customers or your business cards.

The page addresses

Every old address is redirected to the corresponding new page. Google carries over what it knew; you do not start from zero.

The copy that works

A page that receives visits and converts is rewritten with care, not replaced.

The photos

Kept if they are good, compressed, recropped. Replaced if they come from a stock library.

The rest

Design, structure, code, hosting, legal pages, Google profile: rebuilt.

How it works

01The test

You enter your address in the visibility test. Six checks, one minute, no sign-up.

02The call

Thirty minutes. I look at your site with you and say whether a redesign is worth it.

03The proposal

One page: package, amount, deadline, list of pages kept and rebuilt.

04The build

At a temporary address, while the old site stays online. Two rounds of corrections.

05The switch

The new site replaces the old one, with all redirects, on an agreed day. The old one is archived.

What a redesign costs

The price of a new site, redirects included: CHF 2,700, 5,800 or 9,500 depending on the package. A redesign is not less work than a new build; it is the same work, plus the inventory of the old site and the redirect plan.

Three packages, and one for your existing site

Be online, with a site that earns trust.
  • Up to 10 pages: home, services, team, references, contact, legal notice
  • All copy written, from a thirty-minute call
  • Custom design, one proposal, tested mobile version
  • Google Business profile, initial SEO, structured data
  • Contact form, hosting and certificate configured
  • Live in 2 weeks
Minimum2,700CHF
Be found by the customers who are searching, in two languages.
  • Everything in Minimum, plus:
  • Up to 14 pages, written in 2 languages
  • One landing page for your flagship service
  • The site plugs into your tools: calendar, invoicing, newsletter, point of sale
  • Two design proposals
  • Live in 4 weeks
Visible5,800CHF
Take market share: the site, and the infrastructure behind it.
  • Everything in Visible, plus:
  • Up to 20 pages in 3 languages, 3 landing pages
  • Contact database wired to the site: every enquiry becomes a record that gets followed up
  • Event registrations and sales funnels
  • Business email addresses and Google Workspace configured
  • Automations between your tools: contact database, email, calendar, invoicing
  • Ongoing SEO
  • Live in 6 weeks
Conquête9,500CHF
Fix, change or extend the site you already have.

Copy, pages, photos, form, speed, security. No redesign, no commitment, with an estimate in hours before starting.

Your existing site150CHF / hour

Additional language CHF 500 · Page beyond the package CHF 120 · 50% deposit on signature. The amount is the same in every country; invoices are in Swiss francs.

Full pricing and what a website costs →

Questions

Will I lose my rankings?

Not if the redirects are done, and they are. Every old address leads to its new page. A faster, better-structured site usually gains positions in the following weeks, but I do not promise it: I measure it.

Can I keep my domain name?

Yes, and I check that it is in your name. If it is in your former provider’s name, we recover it before anything else.

What happens to the old site?

A complete archive is handed to you on the day of the switch. It is no longer online, but nothing is lost.

How long does it take?

Two, four or six weeks depending on the package, like a new site. The old site stays online until the switch.


The amount is at the top of the page.

The rest fits in a thirty-minute call: your business, your competitors, and what a website can change. Or by phone, on +41 26 420 00 86.