A 131-year-old institution, rebuilt without breaking a single link.
The Ottawa Dental Society has served the city's dental community since 1895. In 2026 they asked us to replace their ageing WordPress site — every page, both languages, no URL left behind. It went live in August 2026.
The hard part of replacing an old website is everything you cannot see on it.
Thirty years of history means thousands of inbound links, bookmarks, printed URLs and search rankings pointing at exact addresses — including inconsistent ones the old system invented. Break them and the rebuild quietly costs the organization its visibility. So the rule for this project was written down on day one: every address survives, every word of approved content is carried verbatim, and the design the committee signed off is treated as pixel authority. The engineering serves the institution, not the other way around.
Faster, safer, and owned by the client.
A static-first rebuild: no plugins to patch, no database to breach, no admin login to attack — and speed that a page-builder site cannot reach.
| Delivered | The detail | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| 01199 bilingual pages | The detailEvery English page, every French page, sixty-plus patient-education articles per language, rebuilt verbatim from the approved content | Why it mattersNothing was lost in translation — literally |
| 02Every URL preserved | The detail202 locked addresses carried over exactly — including the old system's quirks — with permanent redirects for retired plugin pages | Why it mattersThirty years of links, bookmarks and rankings intact |
| 03Launch performance | The detailGoogle PageSpeed at launch: 100/100/100/100 on desktop, 98/100/100/100 on mobile, layout shift of zero | Why it mattersSpeed is a ranking factor and a courtesy to members |
| 04Security hardening | The detailEnforcing Content-Security-Policy, hardened headers, spam-protected forms, rate limiting, automated dependency updates | Why it mattersA static site removes the attack surface plugins create |
| 05Full handover | The detailRepository, hosting, forms and domains all in the Society's name from day one — nothing held hostage | Why it mattersThey own their site the way they own their building |
The footer of every page on the live site reads "Dental website developed by 4UIT" — the kind of credit we only ask for when we are proud of the work. If your organization is carrying an ageing website with history it cannot afford to lose, this is exactly the kind of project our web design practice exists for.
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Your history, carried forward.
Twenty minutes. Bring the site you have; we'll tell you what a rebuild would preserve, what it would fix, and what it costs — in writing.