When we move from one house to another we pack up everything and transport it to the new house. Some of us have employ the time honored tradition of beer, pickup trucks, and friends to make the physical move happen. It’s time consuming, tiring, and when you’re done … still expensive. Something always breaks. You always need more something than you planned on, which costs those precious dollars you were trying to keep. When you wake up the next day you are often exhausted and surrounded by a mess. The other alternative is professional movers. Professional packers and movers come in and pack each room, label each box, and deliver those boxes to the correct rooms. You find yourself familiarizing yourself with your new surroundings and getting comfortable as the moving effortlessly happens around you. The difference between the two experiences is budget. If you have an old website and you want to move into a new one, both options are available to you. We provide training in moving content or we can do it for you. It’s a matter of budget.

If only moving were that simple. What about mail? It’s easy. You simply fill out a change of address form and the Post Office takes care of it for you. Guess what? It’s just about that simple. You supply us a list of email addresses and we setup your new mail and transfer it over the weekend. When you come in Monday, you check your email one last time to clear out any remaining messages, then change your email settings to the new server. Once you point your mail client to the new server, your mail will function like normal. If normal means you get a lot of spam, we can one up the post office. Simply upgrade your mail boxes with Graphics & Motion SecureMail. You will be amazed at how much less spam (read junk mail) you receive. Additionally SecureMail provides protection against Viruses and Phishing attacks. In case you don’t know, Phishing is where someone pretends to be someone they aren’t (like your bank) in an attempt to get your personal information.

I’m certain that every time you’ve moved you do your darnedest to make sure everyone you can think of knows where you moved. I don’t know about you, but every time I miss someone … okay a lot of people. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could put up an invisible sign that only your friends could see that would direct them to your new house? On the web, we have these giant long addresses called URL’s. You know, that string of text at the top of your browser that goes from http://www.address.com to something so long you wouldn’t even want to attempt to read it? Those things change when you move and it makes it impossible for the search engines to know where those old pages have moved to. In comes 301 redirects. These redirects are custom coded and act as that invisible sign pointing your old pages to the new ones so your visitors find you. Mapping redirects from an old site to a new one requires planning and can be time consuming. Redirecting every page might be cost prohibitive, but if you get all the key pages it can go a long way to making sure you keep those hard earned visitors.

I hope this website moving/updating guide helps you understand the key steps to a smooth transition.