Advice on migrating website to new domain

[John]

John

May 25, 2020 at 10:07 am

Hi Hannah,

I would like advice on what I need to think about as I migrate the developmental website to its proper domain. I built this old website in Dreamweaver back in 2006: http://www.georgianchant.org but it isn’t responsive to different size devices. As you know, I’ve now built a new responsive website called http://www.develop.georgianchant.org

I would like to delete the old website, and move my new website to http://www.georgianchant.org. Then I will also delete the development website.

The old website has almost no traffic, so I am not too concerned about redirecting web search traffic to the new page, but maybe there is an easy way to do this?

The page names are different.

Is there a way to delete the old web pages from the internet, or do they stay there forever?

Exactly what do I need to do to migrate the site? Are there any concerns from the Virtue theme that I should keep in mind?

Thanks for your advice,
John