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LifeTeen.com

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LifeTeen.com is Life Teen's ministry to Catholic high school and college-aged teenagers. This new website is the third version of a long running website. The site features a complete redesign in content structure, visual design, backend software, and vision. 

Our new "Content Trinity" hits all the areas of a Catholic teen, from learning about the faith, to a relationship with God, and living out the faith in the world. New emphasis has been given to categories of content rather the medium of the content.

A new design is simpler and fresh. Design is geared towards flexibility, especially when integrating Life Teen's yearly theme design. The site will continue to evolve and be refined as more content is added.

LifeTeen.com is now run on Wordpress enabling us to publish new content with ease and speed. A renewed focus on content helped us pick Wordpress as the software platform of choice. With it's large community of contributing developers and constantly improving release versions, Wordpress was an easy choice for flexibility and growth in mind.

A new vision to focus on teens will continue to help us refine our design and content. Our other main website, CatholicYouthMinistry.com, helps our adult audience find the resources and training they need to be engaged in their mission while allowing LifeTeen.com to be a true evangelistic tool for teens and young adults.

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The REAP Team

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The REAP Team is a retreat ministry for young Catholics in St. Louis, MO. Their website was originally set up running on a Drupal 4.7.9 codebase in 2004, and was growing long in the tooth, as it was still on 4.7.11 in 2010. All the Catholic Youth Apostolate's websites are now consolidated into a new Drupal 6.x multisite install, running on Hot Drupal.

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Archdiocese of Saint Louis

Archdiocese of Saint Louis, MO

The Archdiocese of Saint Louis has upgraded its website over the years and adapted to the latest technologies and communications media along the way. In February of 2010, the Archdiocese unveiled the latest revision of its website, running Drupal, and using many contributed modules to enable organizations to post and manage their content more easily than they could before.

You can read more about the process:

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A.ngel.us

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A.ngel.us is a community website for both logical and creative types who express their Catholic faith through their development of digital media. All types of programmers, Web designers, Web developers, graphic designers, podcasters. I.T. professionals, and digital music producers who do their work for the glory of God are welcome.

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CatholicFind.com

This is a small start toward re-opening the CatholicFind site. The search engine is explained at http://www.WordsCloseTogether.com.

Encyclicals

eBooks

Early Church Fathers

Vatican II Documents

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Vocation Boom Catholic priesthood

Vocation Boom! is an integrated campaign focused on supporting the Catholic priesthood as a life’s vocation and mission.The campaign includes marketing strategy, creative development, video and web. Other marketing initiatives include collateral materials, social media and a blog by founder, Jerry Usher. Vocation Boom! has an opportunity to engage young men who may be experiencing God’s call. Through this campaign we are communicating the beauty and complexity of the priesthood, the variety of emotions discerners may experience and that men considering the priesthood are just normal, regular guys –- your son, your friend, your neighbor. We really took a different approach with the message, too. We wanted to appeal to a younger demographic in both tone and delivery. Vocation Boom! is engaging, youthful and inspiring while still being about God’s call.

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Office of Youth Ministry - St. Louis

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The Office of Youth Ministry is a division of the Catholic Youth Apostolate in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis, whose goal is stregthening youth ministry.

The website was running Drupal 4.7.11 (originally created on 4.7.6, I think), and I updated it from that to 5.1, then to 6.1, then to 6.15. The upgrade process took about two weeks, because there was a lot of custom development (some of which remains to be implemented on the new site) for registration, newsletters, etc.

The theme is a Zen subtheme, and I was going for a bit more 'organic' and trendy look... thus the plants in the background, and the tree in the St. Louis skyline.

I'm going to be working on a few issues in the coming weeks, but the site is running great, and I'm pretty pleased with the result!

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