A surgical rebuild.
A complex, sunsetted website turned into a faster, easier-to-manage platform — without losing critical content or a single integration.
All Saints' Atlanta had run a complex website on the Ecclesia CMS for years. Staff found it difficult and frustrating to manage.
Then the CMS provider decided to sunset the platform, and a frustration became a deadline. The site held years of historical content, extensive page relationships and interlinking, and third-party integrations supporting giving, donations, membership and more.
The legacy CMS offered no straightforward structured export path, so what looked like a migration was going to be a rebuild.
We mapped everything before we moved anything. On a sunset deadline, the inventory is the project.
We mapped the existing content and information architecture, identified the critical functionality and integrations, and planned the rebuild to protect the investment already made. Where the legacy structure was working against the staff, we simplified sections and internal linking rather than reproducing the old site faithfully.
Page-speed figures are still being measured — add them once the client confirms the numbers
“Posting the Sunday bulletin used to take an afternoon and a phone call. Now one person does it before coffee, and the Give button is where people expect it.”
No sunset on the calendar
The new site is faster and substantially easier for staff to maintain.
They update information quickly, which keeps the site relevant for the people using it, and they are no longer carrying the risk that their investment sits on a disappearing platform.
We still run the platform. They run the content.
