Performance Upgrade Website Migration
Summary
Wilke Fleury's current website contains more than 100 years of firm history, attorney experience, practice-area information, and thought leadership. However, the WordPress platform has become cumbersome to manage, content is difficult to navigate, and the firm depends on limited internal access and inconsistent outside support.
The Performance Upgrade will migrate Wilke Fleury's current website from WordPress to DynamiX's Octane platform. This is a one-to-one migration—not a redesign. The existing visual direction, content, navigation, and overall page structure will remain substantially unchanged, with only the adjustments required to support the Octane platform.
This approach allows Wilke Fleury to improve its technical foundation, website management, performance, and SEO safeguards now without rushing through a complete redesign before the firm's committee and budgeting process is ready.
The Big Goal:
Give Wilke Fleury a faster, more dependable, and easier-to-manage website foundation now—while preserving the firm’s current content and creating a clear path toward a larger redesign in the future.
The Big Challenges We Plan To Solve For
Site Speed and Codebase
Wilke Fleury's current mobile performance score of 69/100 presents a challenge to the site's speed, user experience, and search visibility. The Performance Upgrade will improve this by migrating the site to Octane's faster, more stable technical foundation.
Pages Indexed By Google
Wilke Fleury currently has 589 URLs indexed by Google. Our review also identified 79 core HTML pages, 433 blog posts, and additional non-indexed URLs.
As part of the Performance Upgrade, DynamiX will migrate the approved existing website pages and content from WordPress to Octane on a one-to-one basis. This scope does not include evaluating, rewriting, consolidating, or removing content beyond confirming the final migration inventory with Wilke Fleury.
Scope of Work: Performance Upgrade
Building Toward the Future
By moving Wilke Fleury's current website to Octane now, the Performance Upgrade establishes a stronger technical foundation that will make a future redesign easier and more efficient.
When the firm is ready to take that next step, the existing Octane website can serve as the foundation for either an Evolve or DynamiX Custom redesign—without the need to migrate to another platform or start over technically.
An Evolve project typically represents a more streamlined redesign approach, with projects generally ranging from $18,000-$30,000 and approximately 8-12 weeks, depending on the final scope and content needs.
For a more comprehensive transformation, a DynamiX Custom project provides a fully custom strategy, design, and development process. These engagements typically range from $35,000-$60,000+ and approximately 12-20+ weeks, based on the firm's design direction, functionality requirements, content, and committee priorities.
When Wilke Fleury is ready, DynamiX will work with the firm to define the appropriate approach, scope, timeline, and investment based on its goals at that time.
Octane Platform Capabilities
"What We Think About So You Don't Have To"
Timeline Of A Performance Upgrade Build
Taking a Build, Launch Refine Approach
Based on our discussion and the current state of the website, our goal is to efficiently migrate Wilke Fleury's existing site to Octane while maintaining content and visual equivalence with the current experience.
The process below is designed to move the firm onto its new technical foundation quickly while protecting existing content, URLs, and search visibility throughout the transition.
Build
Typical Timeline: 2-3 Weeks
Our aim is to move Wilke Fleury's current website onto a stronger, future-ready Octane foundation while preserving its existing design and content. By using Octane's native functionality for this one-to-one migration, we can keep the project's cost and timeline efficient while making future updates and an eventual redesign easier.
Launch
Typical Timeline: 1 Week
As soon as the site is in a place where we have content equivalence, we will launch the new site experience so that Google has time to re-index, and to allow search engines to see your new content as it is added to the site experience.
Future Redesign
Separately Scoped
The Performance Upgrade represents the first step toward Wilke Fleury's future website redesign. Once the site is live on Octane and the firm is ready to move forward, we can build on this new foundation with a redesigned experience that includes a deeper homepage story, refreshed visual direction, updated photography and videography, and more meaningful ways to showcase the firm's history, people, practices, and differentiators.