Uploading, launch and ongoing care
How we publish your website
Understand what uploading or publishing means for an existing platform or a managed website, and why approval comes before the live change.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
How the PresGro handover works, what to check before launch and how to keep the site useful.
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Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Understand your website preview
Use a website preview to review content and layout, understand what is not live yet and avoid sharing unfinished work as your public website.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Review your first website draft
Review a first website version in a useful order, collect one clear round of feedback and distinguish corrections from a change of scope.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Approve your website for launch
Work through business facts, contact routes, content permissions and account dependencies before approving your new website for publication.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Check your website after launch
Confirm the published website, key links and authorised enquiry tests after launch, and record any remaining issue without making conflicting changes.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Plan small edits on your managed website
Make useful requests within your managed website allowance, prepare approved changes and understand when a larger job needs a separate agreement.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Keep a clear record of a DNS change approval
Document the intended domain change, unaffected services, named approver and verification plan before anyone changes live website or email records.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Prepare a rollback plan before a website change
Agree what recovery means before changing a website, identify restorable components and protect new customer activity from an unsafe blanket restore.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Is the provider down, or is it your website?
Compare symptoms with official provider status information, collect safe evidence and avoid changing live settings before the source of a fault is understood.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Check a third-party widget before installing it
Review the purpose, account ownership, permissions and loading effects of an embedded tool before adding another script to your public website.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
A simple monthly website health check
Review your important pages, contact routes, content dates and account responsibilities in a manageable routine without treating it as a security audit.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Write a useful website backup and recovery plan
Decide what must be recoverable, who is responsible and which questions to ask your provider before assuming that a hosting backup protects everything.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Check whether your website backup is complete
Review the backup date, included systems, exclusions and recovery evidence without overwriting your live website or exposing customer information.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Plan a restore test without touching the live site
Prepare a controlled website restoration rehearsal, agree what to test and prevent a restored copy from emailing customers or replacing live data.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Restore, repair or rebuild: which does your site need?
Separate recovery from a focused repair or a new website, preserve recent information and decide what evidence is needed before choosing a route.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Agree who handles each website maintenance task
Separate content edits, software updates, hosting, email and renewals so your business knows who to contact and which tasks need separate approval.
Uploading, launch and ongoing care
Taking over a neglected website: what to check first
Establish ownership, recoverability and customer-critical problems before updating an unfamiliar website or deciding that it needs a full rebuild.