Based on our experience in website migration projects We have come up with few suggestions to streamline your website migration projects and initiative.

We call them the Commandments of Website Migration

Always carry out Web content quality audit before you commit to time frame and budget for website migration. Everybody knows that garbage in is garbage out. No matter how technolgically advanced your new system is, it will seldom make content quality better on its own.

Always carry out Web Content Quantity Audit before commiting Time frame and budget for the project. It is better to know how much content needs to be migrated before hand.

Classify content based on frequency of update and business value delivered. You will need this information when you actually migrate the content.

Avoid involving technical team to carry out web content quality and quantity audit and doing content classification : Mostly they are team who is least intersted of all other teams to do this activity

Remember that most of the CMS implementation projects overshoot budget and time baseline due to inadequate knowledge and understanding about how much content needs to be migrated.

Most of the website migration project involve new web design. If possible, implement new website design and website content migration initiatives independently. Migrate content first to new technology and then change the web design

Please ask subject matter experts if they have plans for large content updates in near future. And if these large updates fall in your project timeline, there is a chance that you will miss project deadline, large content updates and content migration is happening at same time.

80-20 Rule applies in Content migration. Upto 80% of your project time may be spent on migrating your content. Upto 20% of the project time may be spent on implmenting the technology

Content Migration is the largest task in entire CMS implmentation or website migration project.

Always migrate digital assets first

migrate static content first in website migration initiative