Druid City SitesTuscaloosa, AL
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Rebuilds

Moving off Wix, GoDaddy, or Squarespace.

Same price as a new site. I keep your domain, rebuild every page from your own content, and set up redirects so what Google already knows about you carries over. Then I cancel the subscription with you, on a screen share, so you can watch it stop.

Written for people who are paying every month for something they cannot stand and have been told it is complicated to leave.

First, what you are allowed to leave with.

This is not my opinion about anybody's product. It is what each company publishes in its own help pages, read in September 2026. If any of it has changed by the time you find this, tell me and I will fix the page.

Wix

Comes with you

  • The photos you uploaded, out of the media manager
  • A contact or product list, as a spreadsheet
  • Your domain

Stays behind

  • Every page
  • The design, the layout, the fonts, the colors
  • Your blog posts
  • Anything running on a Wix app: a store, bookings, a menu

Wix says a Wix site is built on their own technology, needs their services to run, and cannot be hosted anywhere else. Templates cannot be downloaded. Blog posts cannot currently be exported to another platform.

Squarespace

Comes with you

  • Your pages, as text
  • One blog, with its posts
  • Text blocks and image blocks
  • Gallery pages, on version 7.0
  • Your domain

Stays behind

  • Every style setting, and any custom CSS
  • Stores, portfolios, albums, calendars, index and info pages
  • Anything in a page's own header, footer, or sidebar
  • A second blog, if you have one
  • Video, audio, and product blocks
  • Drafts

Squarespace publishes this list themselves. They also say content cannot be moved from one Squarespace site into another one.

GoDaddy

Comes with you

  • Your photos
  • Your domain, which is usually already registered with them

Stays behind

  • The site

Same shape as Wix. What the builder produces runs on their platform and does not come out as files.

So on all three, a rebuild is a rebuild. There is no version of this where somebody moves your Wix site. Anyone who says they will is either rebuilding it and calling it a move, or running a scraper across your public pages and handing you what it caught.

Your site was never yours to take. Your domain always was.

That is the part worth knowing, and it is not on anybody's pricing page. Your domain is registered to you. It does not have to move anywhere for a new site to go live on it. One setting changes, inside the account you already have, and it takes a few minutes and costs nothing.

Moving the domain to a different registrar is a separate errand, and you can do it later or never. If you decide to, there are rules worth knowing in advance: a domain cannot change registrars within 60 days of being registered or last transferred, or within 60 days of you changing the name or email on it. A domain registered at Wix cannot go straight to Cloudflare either, it has to sit at another registrar for 60 days first. None of that touches your launch, because none of it has to happen first.

What Google already knows about you carries over.

I list every address on your current site and map it to where that page lands on the new one, then set permanent redirects. A link on your Facebook page, in an old invoice, or on somebody else's blog still arrives somewhere useful instead of at an error.

Your Google Business Profile is a separate thing from your website and it stays exactly where it is, with its reviews and its map pin. I point it at the new address and make sure the hours, the phone number, and the link agree with what the site says.

What it costs, and what stops costing.

Same price as a new site. One page is $750, four to six pages is $1,500. Half to start, half at launch.

The builder bill stops the day the new site goes live. Most small business plans run $16 to $50 a month, which covers most of a care plan, so for a lot of people the monthly number lands close to where it already was, except now the site is yours and the files are yours.

What I need from you, and what I do not.

Your builder login is not on the list. I work from what is public plus what you send me: photos, hours, services, prices, and anything you have written that sounds like you. Near the end I will ask you to change one DNS setting, or to sit on a screen share while I talk you through it. That is the only time you need to be inside that account.

I do not cancel anything on your behalf. On day 7 we do it together and you click the button, so nobody but you ever touches your subscription.

Before you pay me anything.

Send me the address of your current site. I will build the first screen of the new one from your own content and text you both, side by side, on a phone. If it does not look better than what you have, that is a useful thing to find out for free.

The week itself runs the same as any other build. The seven days are laid out on the home page, and the questions people ask are answered there too.

Send me the address.

Tell me what you are on now and what it is costing you a month. I answer the same day, usually within the hour. Nothing gets cancelled and nothing gets changed until you say so.

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Sending this gives me your number so I can text you back about your site. Nothing else, and there is no list to get on.