Website
redesign
in Malta.

The clearest sign is on a phone. Open your site on mobile data the way a customer in Mosta or Victoria would after seeing your Instagram post. If text is tiny, buttons are hard to tap, the menu covers the page or it takes several seconds to show anything, customers leave before they read a word. Google also uses the mobile version of your site for ranking, so a poor mobile site hurts you twice.

The second sign is that the site no longer matches the business. You added services, dropped others, changed prices or opened in Gozo, and the website still describes the business of five years ago. Customers notice, and they message to ask what the website should already answer.

Other signs are practical: you cannot update it yourself, it has no secure https padlock, the contact form sends nowhere, it has no WhatsApp button, or you are embarrassed to send the link. If enquiries come from everywhere except the website, the website is not doing its job.

Google stores its index page by page. If a page’s address changes and nothing tells Google, the old address returns an error and the ranking it earned is lost. The fix is a permanent (301) redirect from every old address to its closest new page, set up on the server before the new site goes live. Google recommends keeping these redirects for as long as possible, generally at least a year.

Map the addresses one by one. Keep the same address where you can, redirect changed ones to the matching new page, and avoid sending everything to the homepage, which Google may treat as a missing page. Then update your own internal links, your sitemap, your Google Business Profile link and the links in your social profiles and ads.

After launch, submit the new sitemap in Search Console and watch the Pages and Performance reports for a few weeks. Some movement is normal while Google reprocesses the site; errors on pages that used to get clicks are not, and should be fixed quickly. Search Console’s Change of Address tool is only needed if you also move to a new domain.

Design for the phone first, then make it look good on a laptop. Most local searches and almost every click from social media happen on a phone, so the first screen on mobile should say what you do, where, and how to contact you, with a WhatsApp or call button within reach of a thumb.

Speed comes mostly from the build, not from hosting. Compressed modern images, few plugins and scripts, and no heavy sliders or autoplay videos make the biggest difference. Google’s Core Web Vitals are a sensible checklist for a redesign: the main content should appear quickly, the page should respond to taps without delay, and nothing should jump while loading.

A redesign is also the cheapest moment to make the site accessible: readable contrast, alt text on images, proper headings, forms with labels and a site that works with a keyboard. The European Accessibility Act has applied since 28 June 2025 to services such as online shops, with an exemption for micro-enterprises; even where it does not apply, an accessible site is easier for every customer to use.

A redesign is usually priced like a new website, because most of the work is the same: planning the pages, writing and organising content, design, build, redirects and testing. What changes the price is the number of pages, how much content must be rewritten or moved, and features such as booking, a shop, several languages or connections to other systems.

Our websites start from €990, €2,490 and €4,900, excluding VAT, depending on scope, and we quote a redesign after looking at your current site. Online stores and custom systems are scoped separately. Some projects that add real digital functionality may be partly covered by Malta grant schemes; check the rules before you start.

Budget for the time on your side too: approving the page plan, supplying photos and checking prices and details. A redesign moves fastest when one person on your team can make decisions.