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Website rebuild ahead of merger announcement
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Introduction
You need the firm's website replaced before the merger is announced, and the new site has to hold two practice areas that currently have separate identities. This proposal covers the rebuild and the content migration.
Scope & Budget Note
The brief asks for a full rebuild, a bilingual site, a client portal with document upload, and a case-study library — with a launch six weeks out and a fixed budget of R45,000. Those do not fit together, and I would rather say so now than discover it in week four.
The client portal alone is the larger half of that budget: it needs authentication, per-matter access control, secure storage, and an audit trail, and getting any of those wrong on a legal site is a real problem rather than a cosmetic one.
Here is what I recommend instead, in two phases:
Phase 1 — the six weeks and the budget you have. The full public site, bilingual, both practice areas properly represented, all existing content migrated. This is the part that has to be live for the announcement.
Phase 2 — after launch, quoted separately. The client portal and the case-study library, once the announcement is behind you and there is time to build them properly.
Everything below describes Phase 1.
Scope of Work
Structure and content. One site covering both practice areas, with a navigation that makes it obvious which lawyers do what. Existing content migrated and lightly edited for consistency of voice.
Bilingual. English and Afrikaans throughout, with a language switch that persists across pages.
Design. Conservative and typographically careful — this is a firm whose clients are reassured by restraint, not by animation.
Compliance basics. POPIA-compliant contact forms and a privacy page drafted for your attorney to review. I write the draft; I do not sign off on it.
Deliverables
- A live bilingual website across all pages listed in the sitemap we agree
- All existing content migrated
- A CMS your office manager can use without calling me
- Handover session, recorded
- 30 days of post-launch fixes
Timeline
| Phase | Duration |
|---|---|
| Sitemap and content audit | Week 1 |
| Design direction, two rounds | Weeks 2–3 |
| Build and content migration | Weeks 3–5 |
| Review, corrections, launch | Week 6 |
Week 6 ends three working days before the announcement date, deliberately.
Pricing
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Phase 1 — public site, bilingual, migrated | R45,000 |
| Phase 2 — client portal | Quoted separately after launch |
| Phase 2 — case-study library | Quoted separately after launch |
Next Steps
- Confirm you are happy to split the work as described.
- I will send the sitemap for sign-off — that is the document everything else hangs on.
- Content audit begins the day the sitemap is approved.