A ten-year-old website often has the right services, the right phone number and photos customers recognize. It just looks dated. Starting from a blank page throws all that away. Here’s how to redesign in Divi while keeping what still works.
1. Inventory what you’re keeping
Before touching the design, list what stays:
- Page text (services, about, contact details, hours)
- Photos you own
- Your logo, and your brand colors and fonts if you’re keeping them
- The page addresses (URLs) that people and search engines already know
Keeping URLs the same, or redirecting old ones to their new pages, helps avoid broken links after launch.
2. Decide what changes
A redesign doesn’t have to change everything. Some owners want a fresh design with the same content and branding. Others want new colors but the same logo. Write it down part by part: logo, colors, fonts, layout, photos.
3. Build with native Divi modules, not custom code
Many “instant website” and AI tools produce something that looks fine until you try to change it. If the new site is built from real Divi modules, global colors and presets, you (or any Divi designer) can edit it later in the Divi Builder.
4. Back up and build somewhere safe
Take a full backup first, and build the new design on a staging copy or as drafts, so the live site keeps working until you approve the new one.
5. Check it on phones before launch
Click every button and link on desktop and phone, check that text over images is readable, and check that phone numbers are tappable.
Doing it from a brief with Divi Kickstart
We built Divi Kickstart for exactly this. It’s a step-by-step wizard inside WordPress. Choose “Redesign my current website,” enter your current site’s address, then pick “Just do it” to keep your content, logo and colors with a fresh, modern design, or “I want some input” to choose what changes, part by part (“Here’s the new one” or “You pick for me”). Kickstart can reuse text, photos, your logo and your colors and fonts from the existing site.
Your own Grok Bot then builds the site with native Divi modules and no custom code, so it stays fully editable. Progress saves as you go, and your brief stays private on your own site. Kickstart is designed for small business informational websites rather than online stores. Divi Bot Bridge is included.
The Kickstart user guide has the details. If you only need new colors, fonts or a logo rather than a full redesign, read how to change your Divi site’s colors, fonts and logo without redoing every page.
Disclosure: suweb.ai is made by SU Web Agency, and we make the plugin mentioned here. The general steps work without it.