Typically, a new website or redesign will be drafted on a staging domain so your current website is accessible until the new site is completely drafted, tested and reviewed. Once the draft site is ready to go live, we plan a migration to take place after hours or on weekends. This process can be completed within two hours unless the domain is going to be redirected to a new hosting platform. Moving to a new host can take from 2 to 24 hours.
For a totally new site with a new domain and hosting setup, we typically setup an "Under Construction" page and develop the site on your domain to avoid the migration step. In all cases you will have web access to the draft site for review and testing.