Wrapping Up Website Migration from Microsoft Web Page to WordPress as a CMS for CreatingInteriors.com
This week we’re wrapping up the migration of a website called CreatingInteriors.com owned by Francesca Tosolini an interior designer from the Redmond, Washington area. The site was previously hosted on a Microsoft Live website for business and we moved it into a WordPress as a CMS setup.
One of the challenges of running a business website with Microsoft Live is that the individual ‘pages’ are not actually pages. Instead the home page is really one gigantic website that shows and hides the individual sections. It looks like there is a menu system and many pages but there isn’t.
That’s very bad for search engine performance (ergo helping people find your website through search engines) which means that the tool itself pretty much stops foot traffic from ever coming to your web door.
So we migrated the content, which was deep, and rich from the Live environment and moved it into WordPress, configured as a Content Management System. WordPress when configured correctly and with the right plugin installation choices is a search engine (foot traffic) powerhouse when it comes to natural search. Along the way, with our CMS design we were also enable to integrate a new blog into the site so the business owner can have more discussions with clients and potential clients, plus we connected the new site to twitter and Facebook as well.
Using WordPress as a CMS turned this website into a Social Media hub for this small business!
Now in this case, the client sourced a theme design from a designer on the web, provided us with the theme and we set everything else up.
The setup included a few special things such as a magazine styled layout of the blog.
It also included a drop down ajax effect so that visitors could complete a Contact Us form no matter what page of the website they might be on.
And of course the website featured a dynamic drop down menu system that will update as the client adds or removes pages from the site.
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2 Responses to “Wrapping Up Website Migration from Microsoft Web Page to WordPress as a CMS for CreatingInteriors.com”
I like the redirects to Facebook and Twitter. Maybe lose the feedburner box or set your client up with a feedburner account. I like the Revolution Lifestyle template – I just like to rip it apart…
Thanks for the feedback Lennie. I would agree the feedburner comments. This is something that I’m taking up with my client. The initial migration on this site was kept very lean and simple and my client has a great deal of experience with websites, blogs and podcasts. Part of the work I did included things they either didn’t have the ability to do or the time to do. This falls into one of those areas where they may bootstrap this themselves.
In all my jobs, I work to figure out what my client has the ability or appetite to do themselves, then work up to that point and give them the resulting website so that they can take it from there.