My question has 2 parts:
1. Best way to consolidate/migrate my 3 websites (rootsmg.com, treehousecommunities.com, & vineyardsmanagement.com) and from Wordpress & Webflow to HubSpot at the same time. I’m keeping the Rootsmg.com domain as our only website and getting rid of the other two, but I need Rootsmg.com to be up and running on the WordPress site while I build the newly designed one.
2. Which leads to my second question: Can I stage my new RootsMG.com redesigned website on HubSpot BEFORE I connect my rootsmg.com domain and point the name servers to HubSpot?
Hi @Darrin_Caldwell
1. One approach would be to see if HubSpot will migrate the design and content of one site to HubSpot CMS, and then use the create templates to build out the pages of the sites you are going to decommission. If the HubSpot migration service isn’t available to you (they can’t migrate all sites), you could either select a theme that is close to your current design and build out a temporary site yourself, or hire a freelancer/agency to build you a theme and/or populate it.
2. Your new designed site can be built on HubSpot CMS before you point the domain to HubSpot’s services - although this does beg the question why spend anything migrating or consolidating your existing sites if you prepared to wait to change name servers to HubSpot until the new design is ready?
To clarify, HubSpot CMS has two main content areas, one I call ‘Production’ and staging. If your name servers are not point to HubSpot you could build a new site in Production and no one need see it until you are ready to launch. If you migrate your old sites to HubSpot’s production area and make them live first, then you can still build a new site in the actual Staging area.
Hope that helps.
Thank you so much for your feedback. Very helpful!