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Gary Smith, Web Department Director at DiocesanBlake Stapleton, Web Designer at DiocesanVeronica Alvarado, Project Manager at DiocesanMary Goeldel, DiocesanKyle Sullivan, Web Development at DiocesanSam Pohlman, Web Developer at DiocesanNichol Swift, Saint Gregory the Great StaffNathalie Shultz, Web ConsultantCody Armock, Web Content Specialist at DiocesanMarcus Borger, Developer at Diocesan_SupportRyan Hoch, Web at DiocesanRachel TupperKarl Evans, DiocesanLamont Blake, Web Support at Diocesan
Posted by Veronica Alvarado ·

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Hi Nichol,


I've been meaning to get in touch with you sooner, but with the short holiday weeks everything has been pretty crazy around here.  

Since our original plan was to launch in the later part of December, I have a couple questions for you:
  1. Who is your current website host?
  2. When does your current website go down?
  3. Can it be extended per month?
  4. If not, when did we want to display the "Under Construction" page?
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The second half of December, we worked on exporting all of your current website content just in case the site went down, but since the actual development will take several weeks I want to be prepared and familiar with your situation. Let me know and we can begin formulating a solid plan.

Thank you and God bless your patience!

Veronica Alvarado

Web Department, Diocesan
877-923-0777

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Nichol Swift, Saint Gregory the Great Staff Nichol Swift
Hi Veronica,

Thank you for your email. Elexio is our current host and they are merging with Ekklesia 360. Originally they said our current platform was being discontinued as of 12/31/18, but they have since rescinded this and are vague on the new date. Thank God! I’m hoping we will never have to display the under construction page, but we can cross that bridge if they give us a date. What does the export look like? I wasn’t aware that you could do this.

Will I be working with you now that Sam is out of the picture, or is there another person? What is the next process?

I hope you had a lovely holiday!

Thank you, Nichol
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Veronica Alvarado, Project Manager at Diocesan Veronica Alvarado, Project Manager
I had a lovely holiday. I hope yours was splendid.

And it all makes sense now. I was about to go into panic mode, but as always, God's got our backs!

If you could just keep us updated on when they're going to be discontinued, that would be great. 

As for the export, it was a manual export, so not too fun, haha. Our other content specialist, Mary, went through and moved all the text into Google docs and the images/files into folders on our own server. 

The next step in the project will be as follows:
  1. Development begins (currently looking at ~1 week before starting)
  2. Content Migration by Diocesan
  3. Development link sent to you (typically ~2 weeks after starting)
  4. Training (as finishing touches are developed)
  5. Launch!
After designs are approved, I am the point of contact for the rest of the process. Occasionally, Mary (our other content specialist) will help me out with training and content migration, but otherwise, everything will go through me. So hopefully you aren't sick of me yet! 

I will be reaching out to you when development begins, but until then just let me know if you have any questions.


Veronica Alvarado

Web Department, Diocesan
877-923-0777
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Nichol Swift, Saint Gregory the Great Staff Nichol Swift
Yes, it was great too. ☺ So if I’m reading this correctly, development starts next week and I’ll have a link the week after to look at?
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Veronica Alvarado, Project Manager at Diocesan Veronica Alvarado, Project Manager
Development would probably start either Friday, January 11 or Monday, January 14. 

The development link would be sent out January 28- February 1 and, ideally, we would set up the training for a day or two after we send you a link to the development site. That way, you could be trained and launched as early as February 8. 

Something I do want to mention with such as fast-paced timeline is that you are given 2 free, full trainings and after launch any additional trainings (after the 2 are used) and any support calls will be charged at our discounted rate of $50/hr, prorated, rather than the standard $70/hr, prorated. 

So if your current website host's timeline allows it, I'd like for you to have at least two full weeks between the training and the launch. That would be a launch February 15. 

Let me know if you have any other questions,


Veronica Alvarado

Web Department, Diocesan
877-923-0777
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Nichol Swift, Saint Gregory the Great Staff Nichol Swift
Ok, this sounds good, thank you. Will everything be migrated from the current site to the new site by you? What about files behind the scenes that I use from my current site?
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Veronica Alvarado, Project Manager at Diocesan Veronica Alvarado, Project Manager
We will migrate everything that was visible and have it ready for you when we send the development link.

We have exported everything that is visible, but I am not sure if there is a way to export everything on the site. What CMS do you currently use? (Joomla, WordPress, etc.) If you could please send me the login information for your website, we will take a look at it and see if there is a way to export the files/pages.

If we are unable to, you will have the access after training to move items as needed. 

Have a wonderful weekend,


Veronica Alvarado

Web Department, Diocesan
877-923-0777
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Nichol Swift, Saint Gregory the Great Staff Nichol Swift
That sounds good, thank you. ☺

Here is my login: type the word “login” anywhere on the page and the form will pop up. My login name is my email address and the password is malibu123.

The pages that are hidden are the ones that I use throughout the year for events under homepage events. These are not in the menu, but I’ll definitely need them for the new website. For example, anything currently on the first homepage that has a little photo with title and dates are associated with one of these hidden pages. I store them in a file called old events and then resurrect them in the new year and use that as my template for the new version of that same event. This saves me a ton of time so that I don’t have to reinvent the wheel each time.

I have no idea what the CMS is, I’m so sorry.

I’m really looking forward to the new site! Yay!
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Veronica Alvarado, Project Manager at Diocesan Veronica Alvarado, Project Manager
Thank you for the login.

We will take a look that that "Old Events" file and export those as well. It's great that you're so organized, haha!

Thanks again,


Veronica Alvarado

Web Department, Diocesan
877-923-0777
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Nichol Swift, Saint Gregory the Great Staff Nichol Swift
Thank you!
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