A county site migrated without losing fifteen years of pages.
We maintain Grundy County and told them, as part of that service, that their Joomla and their PHP both needed updating for security and function. Then we bid the work.
The problem
An outdated Joomla on an outdated PHP is a security exposure that gets worse quietly. The county also had a real budget, and every department had content and contacts on the old site that could not simply be dropped.
What we built
A staging site and a clean environment first, with Joomla 4 and PHP 8 installed. We shortlisted pre-built templates to keep development cost down and let the county choose. Content moved across page by page, then their contact circulated the staging link to every department for review, which surfaced the corrections only they knew about. Weekly meetings and a summary email of action items on both sides kept it on track.
What it did
They run it themselves now. We put a page builder in so content changes do not need us, which is the point of handing something over properly.
Tell us what is not working. You get a straight answer about whether it is worth doing, from the people who would do it.