Imarc Website Update

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Imarc
Audit
Contract Start Date February 6, 2023
Expected End Date Week of March 6, 2023
Cost of Audit $8200
Contract
CMS Upgrade
Contract Start Date May 8, 2023
Expected End Date Week of July 14, 2023
Actual End Date Week of September 9, 2023
Cost of Upgrade $47,150
Contract
Additional Features
Contract Start Date February 5, 2024
Expected End Date March 6, 2024
Cost of New Features $24,395
Contract
Hosting
Hosting Start Date July 1, 2023
Hosting End Date June 30, 2024
Cost per Month $250 $3000 per year. Handled with PO in Buy2Pay
Contract
Primary Contacts
Matt Kling mattkling@imarc.com Contract and onboarding
Jenny Burke jenny@imarc.com Project management
Kerri Cranwell kerri@imarc.com Lead engineer
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Jason "Jay" Antonucci jay@imarc.com Contract and onboarding
Eric Goudreau ericgoudreau@imarc.com Project manegament

In September of 2022, CES reached out to Imarc about updating the current CES website built on CraftCMS 2.6. This is in response to Shotgun Flat ending contact with CES.

Project Phases

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  • Phase 1: Audit CraftCMS and server environment to determine what work needs to be done
    • Goal: Upgrade CraftCMS to version 3.0 or better, with an eventual upgrade to 4.0.
    • Timeframe: February 6 to March 6
    • Deliverables: Recommendations and next steps
    • Completed and Delivered
  • Phase 2: Upgrade CraftCMS; discuss new options for hosting and site maintenance; code repository
    • Rough outline: Imarc is creating a server on their hosting environment ($200 a month), along with a git repository. They will then start at Craft 2 and transfer over the database and files, then upgrade to Craft 3 with a look towards 4. New plugins will also be installed to coincide with the version upgrade, listed below. Digital signage has been included in this phase.
    • Completed and Delivered
  • Phase 3: Develop new features for site
    • Wishlist: Constant Contact integration; Form for faculty to submit pending events to calendar (and Airtable integration)
    • Current work: Update signage; improve thumbnail quality; reassess database; provide directions on Elsewhere locations.

Services for Upgrade

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Below are the new plugins, features, and upgrades for the new CraftCMS install.

New Feature Type Cost Ownership
(account name)
Craft Console License Manager Per License CES
Mailgun Mail server $35/month ces@fas.harvard.edu
Calendar Plugin $179.95
$89.95/yr
Craft Console
Imager X Plugin $49
$29/yr
Craft Console
Link It Plugin $39
$19/yr
Craft Console
Navigation Plugin $19
$5 yr
Craft Console
Spoon Plugin $59
$29/yr
Craft Console
Retour Plugin $59
$29/yr
Craft Console
Forms Plugin $99 Craft Console
PDFs (enupal snapshot) Plugin $29
$9/yr
Craft Console
Color Picker Plugin ?
Map Plugin
Free Craft Console

Audit Access

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Imarc's engineering team was given access to the following services for purposes of the audit.

Service Account Notes
Google Analytics imarcllc@gmail.com Given viewer access
Digital Ocean login+harvard@imarc.com New Team created, CES-Imarc
Different Team is to keep their account from seeing our production environment
Clone of website server Kerri Cranwell SSH
kerricranwell
Droplet name: Imarc-CES-audit-feb-2023
Sits in CES-Imarc Digital Ocean Team
IP: 68.183.156.226
Has kylemadsen rsa key for SSH
Cloned February 12, 2023
CraftCMS login+harvard@imarc.com Given access to live CMS