Redesign · Keep what is already true · Yours before you pay
Your words. Set properly.
Most redesign pitches start by telling you everything you have is wrong. Usually it is not. The sentences are true, the photographs are real, the phone number works — what is wrong is the setting. Scroll, and watch one page get re-set without a single word changing.
Same words · twelve settings · one scroll
Nothing added. Nothing cut.
This is one page of content, set twice. Scroll and it is re-set in place — type, hierarchy, spacing, the call to action. Count the words that change.
as it stands today
Serving the north side since 1998
Marchmont Plumbing
We handle leaks, water heaters, slab repairs and the jobs other shops turn down. Two trucks, both of them ours, and the person who answers the phone is the person who shows up. Most calls are seen the same day, and you get a price before we start — not after.
Call the shopWhat you keep, and what actually changes.
A redesign should not cost you the things that already work. Here is the honest split, and the left column is longer on purpose.
You keep
- Your domain. Same address, in your name. Nobody has to learn a new one.
- Your email. It lives on separate records and we do not touch them.
- Your words, wherever they are already true and specific.
- Your photographs, re-cropped and colour-matched rather than replaced.
- Your page addresses. Old links keep landing somewhere real.
- Your reviews and your profile. Those are Google's, not your site's.
What changes
- The setting — type, hierarchy, spacing, rhythm. The stage above, literally.
- The path to a call. One tap, on every screen, not buried in a footer.
- What is underneath. Real code instead of a theme and a plugin stack.
- How fast it opens on a phone, which is where most of your customers open it.
- Whether a search engine can read it at all, which older builds often prevent.
The one thing we will not do quietly. If a section of your copy is wrong rather than badly set — a claim you cannot back, a service you stopped offering — we will tell you and rewrite that section. We will not re-typeset something untrue and hand it back looking expensive.
How the switch happens without a dark day.
The part people are actually afraid of is the day it goes live. Here is the whole sequence, and your current site is up and answering for all but the last few minutes of it.
- Same day, we talk.
What is on the site now, what you want kept, and what you think is losing you calls. You talk to the person who does the work.
- We build your new first page, free.
Your real content, set properly, live on its own link. Your existing site does not move and does not know about it.
- You compare them on your own phone.
Not a mock-up next to a description — two real pages. If the new one is not obviously better, that is the end of it and you owe nothing.
- We build the rest and map every old address.
Each page on the old site gets a destination on the new one, so saved links and links on your Google profile keep working.
- We check the mail records before anything moves.
Written down before, checked after. This is the step that gets skipped elsewhere and it is the one that hurts.
- You say go, and the switch takes minutes.
We watch it land, then set up analytics and Search Console so you can see what the new site is doing from day one.
A redesign is priced like a build, because it is one.
There is no cheaper “refresh” rung here, because re-setting a page properly is the same work as setting it the first time. The four starting prices are the same four, and most small-business redesigns land on Signature.
Nothing to prepare.
- Built from what’s already public about you, plus one short call
- One page
- 1 revision round
Built from your actual work.
- Your raw job photos, cropped, colour-matched and placed properly
- One page, written from one call — you talk us through the work once, we take it from there
- 2 revision rounds
You write nothing.
- We write every word and curate every image — or bring your own, and the same budget builds more site
- Around five pages, built to turn visitors into calls
- 3 revision rounds
One thing nobody else has.
- A hand-coded interactive centrepiece — a roof that assembles itself, a photo that develops as you scroll
- Six pages or more, scoped before we start
- 5 revision rounds
Hosting is your own account — about $200 a year, about $350 if you take payments online, billed by the platform and never marked up by us. Extra rounds run $200–$500 by rung, quoted before you spend anything. Aftercare is optional, from $59 a month, after the site is live. For the full breakdown of what each rung buys, see web design in Houston, priced in plain numbers.
What a finished one looks like.
Each of these is a real build you can open and scroll. Read how any of them was made on the work page.
The questions that actually stop people.
Will my site go down during the redesign?
No. The new site is built and finished on its own address while your current one stays up and answering. Nothing points at the new site until you have opened it, walked through it and said go. The switch itself takes minutes, and we do it when you say.
Do I lose my email?
No, and this is the part worth being careful about, because it is where redesigns actually go wrong. Your email lives on records that sit beside the website records, not inside your site. We move the website records only and leave the mail records untouched, and we check them before and after.
What happens to my old page addresses?
Every address on the old site is mapped to its new home, so a link someone saved, a link on your Google profile, and a link in an old email all still land somewhere sensible instead of on an error page. Anything genuinely gone goes to the nearest real page, never a dead end.
Do I have to rewrite everything?
Usually not. The stage above is the honest version of this: most redesigns we do change the setting, not the sentences. If your words are already true and specific, we keep them. If a section is genuinely wrong, we will say so and rewrite that section rather than the site.
Can you keep my logo and colours?
Yes, and we will ask for the real files rather than pulling a logo off your site, because what is on the site is usually a small, flattened copy of something better. If you have no real files left, we will tell you what that limits and what it would take to fix.
What does a redesign cost?
The same four rungs as a new build, because a redesign is a build — the work is the same work. $1,500 rebuilds a single page properly, $3,500 is the usual answer for a small business site of about five pages, and $7,500+ is for a site with something in it nobody else has. $799 exists for a business whose site is one page that just needs to be right.
What if I only want part of it changed?
Then say so on the call and we will price that instead. A redesign does not have to be the whole site, and we would rather fix the two pages that are costing you calls than sell you six you do not need.
How do I know it will be better?
You see it first. We build your new first page in full, free, before you owe anything — the same rule as a new build. You compare it to what you have, side by side, on your own phone, and then decide.
See your first page re-set, for free.
Send us the address of your current site and we will rebuild its first page properly — live, finished, no charge, nothing owed. Fastest way is a call or a text to (832) 742-4572. Or email shane@onthemapweb.com.