The client
Streets Chartered Accountants are a leading full-service firm offering audit, tax advisory, corporate finance, and legal services. Founded in 1907, the firm has grown to 33 UK offices employing over 500 staff, and with their global reach through the SBC Global Alliance, Streets ensure seamless international support. Given their extensive client base and international operations, maintaining website continuity is crucial for providing uninterrupted service and support to their clients.
The opportunity
At Cursor, we thrive on turning complex digital challenges into seamless solutions. When Streets Accountants approached us with the task of modernising their website, we knew it was an opportunity to showcase our expertise in CMS migrations.
Their existing website was built on an outdated and unsupported custom Content Management System. Given Streets' need for a secure, scalable and easily maintainable platform, we recommended migrating to Craft CMS. Its flexible content architecture, strong security model and intuitive admin interface made it ideally suited to support the firm’s multi-location presence and regular content updates, while also providing a future-proof foundation for digital growth.
Our mission was clear: to ensure a smooth migration that preserved the website's visual integrity and functionality while laying a robust foundation for future growth and enhancements.
The solution
Design replication
The first step in this transformation was to faithfully replicate the existing design elements of the Streets website within the new Craft CMS framework. This involved meticulously recreating key user interface components such as navigation menus, typography, headers, footers, and style sheets using the Bootstrap framework. By doing so, we ensured that the new Craft-powered site mirrored the aesthetics and user experience of the legacy platform, providing a familiar interface for returning users.
Incremental migration via reverse proxy
To minimise disruption, the migration was approached in a phased manner, employing a ‘reverse proxy’ strategy to maintain continuous site availability.
Content administration
During the migration process, content administration was carefully managed. Until a section's content was fully transferred, administrators continued to update the old CMS. Once a section was migrated, all content updates shifted to the Craft CMS backend.
Spam form submissions had proved to be an escalating problem with the old version of the site. We resolved this as a priority by redeveloping Streets’ enquiry forms in Craft early in the migration process.
Final cut-over and cleanup
Once all sections were successfully live on Craft, the reverse proxy was disabled, and the old CMS server was decommissioned. A comprehensive site-wide audit was conducted to identify and resolve legacy issues, including broken links, redirect loops, and performance bottlenecks. Additionally, we optimised page load speeds and implemented best practices for redirects and link integrity.
The outcome
Our phased, proxy-driven migration process successfully delivered a fresh, fully supported CMS platform, ensuring a risk-free transition that preserved and enhanced the user experience for Streets’ customers and staff.
