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In Part 6 of this series on the redesign of my church’s website I described the design phase of the project, and how Mike (OCC’s website developer on this project), was able to create a CMS template for our new website that looked virtually identical to our current site.  With the concept phase complete, the next step was the content phase, one that is often fraught with delays.

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In the last article in this series about the redesign of my church’s website I described the process of getting competing proposals for the redevelopment project and the challenges involved.  With that done and having received approval by the finance board for the funds needed, it was time to finally get the project started. The big challenge - could OurChurch.Com create the design within a CMS to look exactly the way we wanted it?

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Having gone from the initial consultation request to receiving a formal proposal from OurChurch.Com in just four days, the next step in the redevelopment of my church’s website was in the hands of the finance board.  Would they approve the above budget request for funds?  Would they ask for proposals from other website development companies?  Would the fact that I’m both the CEO of OurChurch.Com and an elder at the church factor into their deliberation?

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Having met with the staff of my church, the vision for the new site was really starting to take shape.  Now we were ready to begin talking with OurChurch.Com about getting a proposal for the project.  But with the church finance board’s monthly meeting only 4 days away, could we get a proposal from OCC to them in time for the meeting or could missing that meeting delay the project for a month?

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