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DMG’s old site ran on WordPress with the Avada theme. It had the basics: services, a blog, reviews and a contact page. We captured every word of it first and used it as the brief.
Nothing was thrown away. Three news posts moved across word for word, and ten Google reviews and eleven questions and answers kept their exact wording.
A painter is hired on trust and on the finish. The site had to show real work, answer the questions people ask before they call, and turn up for the suburbs DMG actually paints in.
What it needed:
42 old addresses redirected to their new pages. Anyone following an old link or an old Google result still lands in the right place.
What we builtThe site’s redirect file
Keep everything, then build around it.
Every page, post, review and question from the old site was captured before design began. All 42 old addresses point to their new pages with permanent 301 redirects.
23 pages in all.
Schema marks the business as a house painter, with Service, FAQPage, Article and breadcrumb markup. No star ratings are marked up, by choice. A sitemap and robots file ship with the site.
Thirteen sections, each a different kind of block: a video hero, a marquee, the services as a list with a preview that follows the cursor, a before-and-after slider you drag, a five-step process, a film strip of real jobs, reviews, the suburbs, questions and a closing call to action. On a desktop the menu opens into panels for services and areas.
One form, used everywhere: name, phone and email, then suburb, enquiry type, job type and a message.
It fills itself in from the page it sits on. Open it on the Unley page and the suburb already says Unley. Open it on interior painting and the job type is set.
The rebuild runs on a preview link and moves to dmgpainting.com.au at go-live, redirects and all.
