Keeping Saint Paul websites right
Most Saint Paul organizations we talk to have a website that belongs to whoever last touched it: a board member who rotated off, a teacher who moved districts, a volunteer who set it up in 2019. The site still loads, and that is the problem. It looks maintained while the testing calendar, the staff page, the prayer times, and the donate link quietly fall behind. Saint Paul's mix makes this worse than in a retail suburb. Charter and private schools, mosques and churches, health and human services providers, and the neighborhood businesses on University Avenue, Payne Avenue, and West Seventh all publish information that someone depends on being right: a lottery date, a Jumuah time, a county served, a Saturday hour. Keeping it right is not a project. It is a schedule, and the schedule is what a plan buys.
The charter school calendar is written into state law
Minnesota charter schools carry about twenty website duties under chapter 124E and the statutes it cross-applies, and most of them recur. Board minutes go on the site within 30 days of approval and stay for a year. The standardized testing calendar is due by October 1. The literacy plan is due by June 15. The lottery policy has to be published on the website, the annual report posted when the board adopts it, and since 2025 the site needs a conspicuous link to the authorizer's page holding the contract and performance reviews. Public schools also fall under the federal ADA Title II web rule, with compliance dates of April 26, 2027 and April 26, 2028 depending on population. We built the Gateway STEM Academy site, the office posts closures from a phone, and a care plan takes the statutory postings, the PDF cleanup, and the weekly software updates off the front desk.
A masjid website is right or wrong five times a day
Adhan times can be calculated from coordinates. Iqamah times cannot, because the board sets them, moves them with the seasons, and runs Jumuah at a time the calculator has never heard of. In a Minnesota June, Isha lands near eleven at night on some calculation methods and an hour earlier on others, which is why mosques publish their own summer schedules. Then Ramadan arrives on a projected February 8, 2027 for 1448, with Eid al-Fitr around March 9, and the timetable, taraweeh details, and Eid salah location all have to be posted the night they are confirmed. We built the Masjid As-Sunnah site with a single screen for the iqamah column. On a plan we keep that table and the Ramadan pages current, post janazah notices the volunteer sends, and watch the hosting through the spike that arrives every evening before Maghrib.
Close enough to come by, set up not to need to
For onboarding we will come to your building, whether that is a school office in Midway, a masjid on the East Side, or an agency in Frogtown. It is easier to inventory logins, photograph a space, and train the two people who will post closures when we are in the same room. After that the work runs on email, a shared folder, and a short monthly report, which is faster for everyone. Our office is at 4951 W 77th St in Edina, off Highway 100 near I-494. Saint Paul is Highway 100 north to I-94, or the Crosstown east, about twenty-five minutes to the Capitol outside rush hour, and we make the drive whenever a meeting earns it.
Areas of Saint Paul we work with
- Downtown
- Midway
- Frogtown
- Highland Park
- Payne-Phalen
- West Side
- Como
- Dayton's Bluff
