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A concept rework of a health brand's seven-page site, in English and 中文, that keeps the brand's own words, photographs and colours and rebuilds the pages around them. Designed and previewed for the brand, not launched.
Website redesign in Malaysia, without losing what already works
What does a website redesign from CodaMinds include?
A website redesign from CodaMinds rebuilds an old site without losing what it has earned. We tell you first whether it needs a rebuild or only a repair. Then we keep the addresses that rank, redirect the old links, move your content, add 中文 and Bahasa Melayu, make it fast on a phone, and move every account into your name.
Steven Lim started the studio in Kuala Lumpur in 2021 and has built apps and websites since 2016. We have reworked the websites of our own products and moved addresses on this site, so the care a redesign needs is something we practise on ourselves first. The person you message is the person who rebuilds your site, in English, 中文 or Bahasa Melayu. We meet clients in person across the Klang Valley, and work with businesses in the rest of Malaysia, Singapore and further abroad over WhatsApp and a shared draft link.
Rebuild or repair: how to tell
Not every tired site needs a rebuild. Some need a short list of fixes and a fresh set of photos. We read the site before we quote, and we say which one it is.
A repair is usually enough when the pages say the right things, the site loads well on a phone, search engines can read it, and you can still log in and change it. The fixes are smaller: rewrite a few pages so the answer comes first, replace slow images, fix broken links, tidy the menu.
A rebuild is usually the better spend when the site is slow on mobile data however much is trimmed, the layout breaks on a phone, nobody can change a price without the original developer, it is in one language when your customers read three, or a page builder has piled up so many add-ons that every fix breaks something else. At that point, patching costs more over time than starting clean.
Sometimes it is a mix: keep the words and the photographs, rebuild what holds them. That is most redesigns.
What the work covers
Keeping what already ranks
An old site has earned things a new one has not: addresses that search engines know, pages other sites link to, and searches it already turns up for. A careless redesign throws those away on launch day. We list every address the old site has and what the search engines' own reports say each one brings. A page that ranks keeps its address where it can. When an address has to change, the old one forwards to the new page, so a bookmark, a link from a directory or an old printed QR code still lands somewhere useful. Nothing goes live until every old address has a home.
Moving your content across
Your words, photographs, prices and team details are the part of the site that took longest to make. We move them across, not retype them from memory. Each page is checked against the original, and you see the moved content on the draft before anything is cut. Where a page says the same thing as another, we suggest merging them. Where a page buries its answer, we suggest putting it first. You decide.
Three languages, each on its own address
Many redesigns start because the old site is in English only, or uses a translation widget that search engines cannot read. In the rebuild each language gets a real set of pages on its own address: English, 中文 and Bahasa Melayu, in any combination. A customer who searches in 中文 lands on the 中文 page, and the language switch keeps them on the same page in the other language.
Speed on a phone
Most of your visitors arrive on a phone, often on mobile data. We rebuild by hand without a page builder, size every image for the screen that shows it, and load only what a page needs. The result is checked on real phones and on Google's own page-speed test before launch, not after.
Ownership moved into your name
Old sites often sit in someone else's account: the domain under a former developer, the hosting on an agency's card, the logins in one person's inbox. A redesign is the moment to fix that. The domain, hosting and email forwarding move into your business's name, every file of the site is handed over at launch, and you get a short note on where each account lives. If you ever move on, you take it all with you.
What we have built
Ribbon
The website for our own app, rebuilt in its live theme in English and 中文, with old links forwarding to the new pages. First on Google for "rent a friend malaysia" and 100 out of 100 on Google's page-speed test.
We hold this site to the same rule. When we renamed our care page, its old address kept working: anyone who opens it, from a bookmark or an old link, is sent straight to website maintenance, and search engines are told which address to keep.
How we work
Brief. You send us the address of the current site and tell us what is wrong with it. We read it, check the search engines' own reports with you, and reply with rebuild or repair and a written scope.
Fixed quote. One price for that scope, including the address list and the redirects, agreed before work starts. Anything outside it is quoted first.
Draft on your phone. The new site comes as a draft link while the old one stays live. You read it as a customer would, compare it with the old pages, and mark what to change. We revise until you sign off.
Launch. We switch the domain to the new site, test every old address, submit the new pages to search engines and hand over every account in your name.
Care after launch. We watch the search engines' reports in the period after launch for any old address that slipped through, and fix it. After that, changes are a message away, each quoted first. See website maintenance.
Questions
Will a redesign lose our Google rankings?
It should not, if the old addresses are handled. We list every address the old site has, keep the ones that rank where we can, and forward every old address that changes to its new page. After launch we watch the search engines' own reports and fix anything that slipped through. Nobody can promise positions, but a redesign done this way does not throw away what the old site earned.
Should we redesign or just fix the current site?
It depends on what is wrong. If the pages say the right things, load well and you can still edit them, a repair is cheaper and quicker to approve. If the site is slow however much is trimmed, breaks on a phone, or nobody can change it without the original developer, a rebuild usually costs less over time. We read the site and tell you which before you spend anything.
Do we have to rewrite all our content?
No. We move your words, photographs, prices and team details across and check each page against the original. Where a page could read better, such as putting the answer first, we suggest it and you decide. If you want new copy, we write it from a short call or a voice note, in English, 中文 or Bahasa Melayu.
Can you redesign a site another agency or a page builder made?
Yes. We read what is there, export the content, and list every address before anything changes. The new site is built by hand, so it does not depend on the old builder or its add-ons. You need access to the domain, or the help of whoever holds it, so we can switch it over on launch day.
Can the new site add 中文 and Bahasa Melayu?
Yes. Each language becomes a real set of pages on its own address that search engines can find, not a translation widget. The existing English pages keep their addresses, and the new languages sit beside them. Every language is checked on real phones before launch.
Our old developer holds the domain. Can you move it into our name?
Usually, yes. We help you request the transfer from whoever holds it, and move the domain, hosting and email forwarding into your business's name as part of the redesign. Every file of the new site is handed over at launch, so you are never in the same position again.
Start
Send us the address of your current site and what you want it to do better. Tap the button to message us on WhatsApp, and we reply with rebuild or repair and a fixed quote.
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