The short answer
Modern website design, to a customer, mostly means the site feels quick and clear: it loads fast on a phone, uses real photos instead of stock, has large readable type, and says what you do in the first line. Trendy effects like heavy animation and scroll tricks date fast.
Autoplay background video, text that flies in as you scroll, carousels on the homepage, and whatever gradient everyone used last year. They look good in a design portfolio and cost you speed on a phone.
Old information. A 2019 team photo and a service you stopped offering make a site feel older than any design choice.
Every four or five years, with small updates in between.
It's nice to support, not necessary for most businesses.
Yes. Most current templates do; content and photos make the difference.
A website redesign checklist starts before any design: record which pages bring visitors and calls, keep their content and addresses or redirect each one, and carry over your name, address, phone and hours exactly.
2 min readA mobile friendly website is one a customer can use on a phone without zooming or hunting: readable text, a tap-to-call number at the top, buttons big enough for a thumb, no pop-up covering the page, and fast loading on mobile data.
2 min readRun a website speed test with Google's free PageSpeed Insights: enter a page, look at the mobile results, and read the Core Web Vitals.
2 min readBook a time with Lehvel and we’ll go through what your business actually needs.