What is involved in migrating Weebly website?
The migration process is done in stages. Below are the typical steps involved in migrating a Weebly website to another platform.
STEP 1
Service request
Submit our interactive questionnaire to provide some details about your current Weebly website and what you are looking to achieve with moving the website to another platform.
STEP 2
Response
We shall review your submission and respond with a detailed message that addresses your submission, provides plan for your website, recent work samples, cost and estimated completion date.
STEP 3
Service discussion
A detailed discussion to understand your intentions, answer your questions and provide you will all the details you need to make an informed decision.
Discussions can be done via email messaging (most popular) or we can schedule a call at your convenience via Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft teams.
Discussions also covers what you like about the current/old Weebly website; what areas or features you wish to have moved into the new website; what you wish to eliminate, and so on…
STEP 4
Service agreement
We have project terms and agreement which can be digitally signed by both parties (you as the client and us as the contractor) prior to starting the project. This is an optional step but available if requested.
The agreement details and outlines:
- Contractor and Client Information
- Contract Definitions
- Project Scope
- Project Approach
- Project Phases
- Cost And Time frame
- Responsibilities
- Affirmation And Signature
STEP 5
Setting up an account
If you do not already have account with the platform that you are looking to move to, we shall guide you to create an account and choose the right subscription plan best suited for your website needs.
STEP 6
Website access
We shall request an admin/tech access to the account and the website editor to enable us do our work.
These access types can be: admin access, tech/designer access, delegate access, or collaborator, etc. Different platforms have different terminologies for access types.
The important thing to note is that you will have 100% ownership and control over the account and its website(s). Whatever access we are granted shall only restrict us to specific area of your account/website for specific purpose of working on the website. You have the option of terminating our access when the work is completed.
STEP 7
Send Your Contents
You might need to send us contents such as texts, images, videos, files, etc. We accept Email Attachments and files shared via Google Drive or Dropbox. We shall create a folder for the project via Google Drive or Dropbox and grant you access to the folder.
Google Drive is convenient for our clients and actually preferred 99.9% of the time because just about everyone have some form of a Google account (e.g. for Gmail, YouTube, Workspace, etc.) which automatically gives them access to Google Drive.
With the project folder, you are able to simply drag and drop or click to upload those contents (images, videos, files, etc.) into that folder and we will have instant access to them. This makes it easy to share large image or video files without size restrictions usually seen with email attachments. The project folder also acts as a media library to keep track of the files we use for the project.
Alternatively, if you already have your own Google Drive folder or Dropbox folder with your contents and files prepared for us, we shall guide you on how to grant us access to such folder(s).
STEP 8
Work, Revision And Changes
While working on the website, we continuously share our progress with you and ask for your feedback on work done so far and if there are changes you require.
We make those changes and present the website again for follow up revision and feedback until you are satisfied before we move to the next task or next phase.
STEP 9
Completion And Future Support
Upon completion, the designer provides you with assurance of future support. Depending on the website builder, you might also receive an optional offer to subscribe to our retainer and support service.
If necessary, you are also provided with guides on how to edit and update the website.