Investigation Station is a New Port Richey nonprofit that creates interactive science experiences for Pasco County residents and visitors. In this nonprofit website design and migration project, we moved its site off WordPress.com in 19 days, kept all of its copy and every page address, and added an admin portal for messages.
Investigation Station is a nonprofit here in New Port Richey that creates interactive experiences for Pasco County residents and visitors. Its exhibits include the Water Cycle Splash Pad at Veterans Memorial Park in Hudson, From the Sun to Pluto, a one-mile scaled model of the solar system in Starkey Wilderness Park, and the Kidstruction traveling exhibit through the Pasco County Library System. Its current project is Florida Rocks!, a walk through geologic time. Good nonprofit website design for a group like this keeps it simple: show the exhibits, make donating easy, and stay easy to update.
The old WordPress.com site still told the story, but platform clutter and a few broken pieces got in the way.
We proposed a static rebuild that changes how the site works, not what it says.
A light static site with 6 pages, photo galleries and a Donate button in the header.
A migration that kept every page at its address and left the domain where it was.
A private portal in the site's own purple and gold where the team reads and manages messages.
We saved a copy of the old site's text and checked the rebuild against it. Apart from one correction the client approved, every passage of five or more words carried over word for word. The old pages disagreed on From the Sun to Pluto, and the client confirmed it is one mile.
The client chose to keep every page exactly where it was, which means every address ends in a slash. On that setup a redirect only works if it covers the address with and without the slash, so we wrote both forms and checked all 85 live.
The domain is registered with Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, so we pointed DNS at the new site from inside the WordPress.com dashboard instead of transferring it.
The original was a 7,500-pixel square logo file that shrank into an unreadable purple square at header size. We traced the two figures and the constellation into small, crisp SVG marks, one for the header and one for larger uses.
Investigation Station went live on September 11, 2026, 19 days after the first preview went up. Every page kept its address, all 85 redirects resolve, and the contact form was verified end to end on the live domain, with notifications arriving within a second. Every page measured zero layout shift on the staging build in August, and still did when we rechecked the live site in October.
The organization can now edit its own pages in My AI Editor and read its messages in its own admin portal. We do not have traffic or donation numbers to share yet, so next we are watching contact messages and how the site shows up in search.
Redirects were requested on the live domain at launch and again on October 20, 2026; layout shift was measured on the staging build in August 2026 and on all 6 live pages in Chrome on October 20, 2026; days to launch run from the first preview deploy (August 23, 2026) to launch (September 11, 2026).
Yes. For Investigation Station we checked the rebuild against a saved copy of the old site, and apart from one correction the client approved, every passage of five or more words carried over word for word.
No. Investigation Station's domain is still registered at WordPress.com. We pointed its DNS at the new site from the WordPress.com dashboard instead of transferring it.
The organization can. Every page has My AI Editor built in, the team was set up on it in September 2026, and descriptive image names make photos easy to find and swap.
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