How easy to move site

[sytemaker]

Hi all,

I have a client who owns 4 domains and runs a php site on each of them. There is also a userfriendly interface requiring username and password which allows him to change his content like news, portfolio and stuff. As I do seo for him on all of them and they essentially are all part of the same business I have been advising him for months to combine all of the sites under one domain to avoid possible SE penalties in the future.

It seems he's finally seen the light and has agreed to follow my advice. The questions is:

Is it a simple matter of moving all the files from one domain to the other without impairing any of the content changing features? Also there are some flash elements involved and I don't know if they'd be affected.

Please let me know if URLs are needed to answer these questions.

Your thoughts are appreciated.

[srikanthsh]

There is also a userfriendly interface requiring username and password which allows him to change his content like news, portfolio and stuff.

One admin panel to edit all the sites using one central database or separate systems? You need to take programmer's help to dig into the code and make necessary changes and integration.

You could upload the flash files to appropriate paths. Again, if the content in flash files is pulled dynamically, a programmer will have to do necessary changes.