Newedge
Newedge's own website, moved from an ageing SilverStripe build to nemCMS: a bold new design, a refreshed logo, every page and blog post migrated, and the agency now running its site the way it runs clients'.
- Client
- Newedge
- Services
- Migration
- Website
- newedge.co.uk ↗
Newedge has been building websites since 2005, and its own site had fallen behind the work it does for clients. It ran on SilverStripe, looked dated, was awkward to update, and buried years of useful articles.
The brief was a very current, much easier-to-use site that properly shows off the agency, with every page and blog post brought across and no loss of search visibility. It also had to be the proving ground: anything built for Newedge would go on to power other client sites.
- A bold new design with a dark hero and orange highlights, and two hero styles the team can switch between in the admin
- A refreshed logo and favicon, with matching brand graphics
- Full content migration straight from the old SilverStripe database, with images pulled across automatically rather than re-uploaded
- A standout blog: featured and spotlight posts, coloured categories, author names and an “In short” summary on every article
- A redirects manager, so any old address that changed sends visitors and Google to the right page
- New page-building blocks including a ticker, services and projects lists, latest posts and numbered steps
- A simple sum-based spam check on forms, with no third-party captcha
- A careful switch-over: the new site took over the live domain while email, hosted separately, carried on untouched, and the old site was password-protected at its own address
The new newedge.co.uk went live on 26 October 2026. The team now edits pages, articles and case studies themselves, with nothing to patch and no plugins to keep updated.
Building on the site led to improvements that every nemCMS site now shares: a cookie-free visit counter (added after spotting that robot traffic was inflating Google Analytics figures), a Google Analytics dashboard inside the admin, a redesigned admin dashboard with a “Jump to” search, and a cleaner, card-based page builder.