Corporate → Contentful migration

Move a corporate website into Contentful and give every section an owner

Restructuring a large company site into modelled content in Contentful, with a clear hierarchy and a clear owner for each part of it.

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A corporate site is rarely one site. It is a set of areas that different departments added at different times, under one domain and one design.

That is what makes the migration a structural exercise rather than a transfer: before content can be modelled, somebody has to establish what exists and who it belongs to.

What usually prompts the move

The reasons are organisational far more often than they are technical.

The same fact in a dozen places
An office address or a phone number that has to be changed on twelve pages, and never is.
Every change goes through one team
So the departments that own the content are not the ones who can edit it.
Sections that no longer match
Areas built years apart, each with its own layout and its own idea of what a page is.
Pages nobody admits to
Live, indexed and out of date, because their author left and no one inherited them.

The inventory, and the questions it answers

Done before modelling, because the model is a consequence of the answers.

Every page, from the site itself
Crawled rather than collected from memory. The list is always longer than expected.
A named owner for each area
The person who decides what it says, not the person who last edited it.
What each area is for
Which produces the shortest list in the project, and the most argument.
What is repeated across areas
Offices, people, documents, disclaimers, contact details. These become shared content, not copies.
What is retired
Agreed with the owner and recorded, so a page disappears by decision rather than by omission.

How the content model is shaped

Modelled from what the organisation repeats, so the same fact is stored once.

The things the company keeps referring to

Offices, people, services, documents and news items, each a type of its own.

Pages assembled from them

A page references entries rather than restating what they say.

A hierarchy that is data

Where a page sits, and therefore its address and its breadcrumb, is a field rather than a folder.

A limited set of section types

Enough for the pages the site really has, and few enough that the site stays coherent.

Decisions to take about editing before launch

A large site with unclear editing rules drifts back within a year.

Which departments edit their own area, and which submit changes to someone else.
Who may change shared content that appears across several areas.
Whether anything requires review before it is published, and by whom.
Who may create a new page, and who may create a new type of page.
Which content is fixed and must not be edited without sign-off.

Moving in stages rather than all at once

Large sites rarely move in a single step, and they do not have to.

One area first
Usually the one with a clear owner and content that is already in reasonable shape.
The model is corrected against it
Real content finds the mistakes in a content model faster than any review does.
The remaining areas follow
Each with its owner involved, reusing what the first area established.
Addresses stay stable throughout
Old ones kept or redirected at every stage, so a partial move is not visible from outside.

What the platform will not settle for you

Contentful holds structured content and serves it to whatever displays it. It does not decide who owns a section, it does not resolve a disagreement between two departments about what a page should say, and it does not keep content current on its own.

Those questions are the real work of a corporate migration, and they belong to the organisation. Where they are answered, the platform makes them easy to act on. Where they are avoided, a new system reproduces the same site with a different login screen.

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