Pharmaceutical website redesign
Rebuilding sites that grew by accretion

Pharmaceutical
website redesign

Removing sections is most of the work.

Pharmaceutical website redesign for sites that grew by accretion, where every campaign added a section, every market added a page and nothing was ever taken away. The hard part is deciding what does not survive.

Scope
What is included

What a pharmaceutical
redesign actually fixes

What it involves

Most sites we are asked to redesign do not have a visual problem, they have a structural one: three overlapping product sections, a professional area nobody can find, campaign landing pages still live four years later, and a navigation that reflects an org chart from a previous reorganisation.

What we deliver

A content inventory with a decision per URL, a new architecture, the redesign itself, and the technical work to preserve the visibility the current site already has.

Restructured, not rewritten

We restructure and reduce the regulated content down to what the new architecture needs, without touching what it says, so what may be published stays a decision your team makes.

case studies

Clients we've worked with

Real projects for industrial and pharmaceutical companies.
Redesign track record
Track record

What our pharmaceutical
redesigns have had to absorb

The scale a pharmaceutical website redesign has to account for before anything is drawn.

+10
years building for regulated industries
+200
organisations have trusted Code
+1.500
documents migrated with their access permissions intact
+160
scientific papers in a single managed repository
Redesign drivers
Who needs it

Why a pharmaceutical site
reaches redesign

A redesign is usually driven by structural and operational needs, not appearance alone. Pharmaceutical website redesign starts from what stopped working.

Redesign process
Four stages

How we run a pharmaceutical
website redesign

Four stages. In a pharmaceutical website redesign the inventory decides the project.

INVENTORY
01
01

A decision on every existing URL

Before anything is designed we list what exists and decide, page by page, whether it stays, merges or goes. Skipping this is why redesigns end up carrying the previous site's problems into a new skin.

What we review

We review every existing URL alongside its traffic, its inbound links and who inside the company actually owns it, because a page with no clear owner is usually the one nobody remembers to migrate correctly. We identify what duplicates what across the current site, and flag regulated content that must be preserved verbatim, since that is content a redesign cannot simply rewrite for tone.

Result

Every URL gets an explicit decision, keep, merge, retire, reviewed with your team page by page, so nothing is quietly dropped or reworded without someone signing off on it.

ARCHITECTURE
02
02

A structure built for the current portfolio

The new architecture reflects what the company sells and who it serves now, and is designed to absorb the next three years of additions without another rebuild.

What we define

We define the section tree around what the company sells and serves today, not what it sold when the previous site was built, along with the logic for how products are presented and grouped. Market and language variation is built into the structure explicitly, and we settle where the professional area sits relative to the public site, since that relationship is usually what a growing portfolio outgrows first.

Result

The structure is built with headroom for the next few product launches and market entries, which is the difference between a genuine redesign and a visual refresh of the same limitations.

DESIGN AND BUILD
03
03

A component system, not a set of pages

We design and implement in one engagement, delivering a system the marketing team can extend rather than a fixed set of layouts.

What we deliver

We deliver a component library designed against real content and its real states, a template for every content type identified in the architecture, and the site built from that system rather than as one-off pages. The backend is handed over configured for how the marketing team actually publishes, so the system keeps working once we are no longer the ones touching it.

Result

Because the components were designed for real states rather than a perfect first draft, the site absorbs two years of content edits without visibly degrading the way page-based redesigns typically do.

LAUNCH
04
04

Preserving what the old site earned

A redesign that loses the visibility the previous site had is a failure regardless of how it looks. The technical continuity work happens before launch, not after the traffic drops.

What we handle

We map every URL that moves to its new destination and carry over the signals the old site had already earned, rather than treating launch as a fresh start that forfeits them. Indexation is monitored closely after go-live, and anything that surfaces in the first weeks, a missed redirect, a page that dropped out of the index, gets corrected immediately rather than at the next scheduled review.

Result

Traffic and rankings carry through the launch rather than dipping and slowly recovering, which is the usual outcome when redirect and indexation work is treated as an afterthought.

Pharmaceutical website redesign questions

What companies ask before committing to a rebuild.

Will we lose our search positions?

Not if the URL mapping is done properly and the content that earns those positions survives the restructure. Redesigns lose visibility when pages are deleted without a destination or when the content is rewritten wholesale at the same time. Both are avoidable, and both are decisions taken at inventory stage.

Can we redesign without changing platform?

Frequently, and it is worth checking before assuming otherwise. If the platform is sound and only the structure and design have aged, a redesign in place costs considerably less than a replatform. We would tell you that rather than selling the larger project.

How much content usually gets removed?

More than most clients expect going in. It is common to find a substantial share of pages carrying no meaningful traffic, no inbound links and no internal owner responsible for them. Removing that dead weight makes what remains easier to find, both for visitors browsing the site and for search engines crawling it.

Who decides what stays?

You do. We bring the data — traffic, links, duplication, last update — and a recommendation per URL. The decision on regulated and commercially sensitive content sits with your team, which is why the inventory is a working session rather than a document we send.

Related pharmaceutical web development services

Other pharmaceutical
web development services

A redesign often arrives with a migration or a multilingual rollout attached. These are the services it most often sits with.

Website redesign

Start your pharmaceutical
website redesign

A site that grew past its structure, or a brand refresh with a date attached. Tell us the context and we will tell you how we would approach the pharmaceutical website redesign.

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