Website handover

A handover is the moment the site becomes fully yours: logins, domain, hosting, code, and the know-how to run it.

Why it matters

Many companies discover too late that an agency owns their domain or can't export their site. A clean handover protects the investment.

In practice

  • Make sure the domain and accounts are in your company's name.
  • Get a short video and a written guide.
  • Keep a list of every plugin and service, with renewal dates.

Website designAll 42 terms

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Design system

A design system is the shared set of colours, type, spacing and components a site is built from, written down so anyone can reuse it.

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Page speed and Core Web Vitals

Page speed is how quickly a page shows its main content and responds.

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Positioning

Positioning is the short, specific answer to who you're for, what you do for them, and why you instead of the alternatives.

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Want this done for you?

Website handover is part of a normal project here. Tell me where you are and I'll suggest the first three fixes.

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