GETTING THINGS DONE® is a personal productivity methodology that redefines how you approach your life and work.

 GTD methodology helps use to assure that details, projects and tasks do no fall through the cracks or get left undone. If a project or task gets assigned to you from another person, put it back into their inbox when complete in order to close the loop. 

Learn More at https://gettingthingsdone.com/what-is-gtd/

Read or Listen to the book

Your Leadership Edge from the Kansas Leadership Center

Terms & Tools

What is Joomla?

• Joomla is an open-source platform on which Web sites and applications can be created. It is a content management system (CMS) that connects your site to a MySQLi, MySQL, or PostgreSQL database in order to make content management and delivery easier on both the site manager and visitor.
• We do not use every extension available, but Andy has engineered a version of Joomla to simplify the overwhelmingly powerful software to be more friendly for our clients, especially parish secretaries. 
• We have built 2 sites in Wordpress as of 12/30/20 - cfnga.org and 
  • there is a search function for funds that both foundations use in Wordpress

What is Rocket-theme?

• RocketTheme has an extensive collection of premium Joomla templates available for purchase and download. Each of our templates are built from the ground up to be easy to use, extremely customizable, and optimized for the latest browser standards.
• New Joomla templates are being released regularly featuring modern, responsive design. The powerful Gantry framework makes our products easy to install, customize, and deploy.
• As of 12/30/20 - we install the Gemini template on all sites and customize 100% to match mockup

What is Gantry 4 ….. Gantry 5?

• http://gantry.org/  -- allows us to customize the layout of the template. Gantry 4 we were limited to predetermine module positions, etc. 

What is Google...

•  Drive
  • Client documents: a folder for almost every client, built by year and client-code, contains forms and results, some relevant files
  • Forms: often used for parish registration
  • Client Data, etc. spreadsheets
    • Google apps accounts; to manage set up of email @domainname.com
    • Domains: transfer or send instructions to launch; contact information; date processed
    • Calendar accounts: most website have and use google calendar; 

Dropbox

• Every Project gets a Dropbox folder. This is first created / default folders copied in the Working Sites - On Deck folder
  • contains: Documents, Images Created (mockup and website images), Images Provided 
  • Images edited for the project, including hero images, and files downloaded from their existing website should be added to the client's dropbox folder
  • The Images Provide folder is connected to a dropbox request, noted on the client's project status page, so that the client can upload images or other files for website use
• A client's folder moves from Working Sites - On Deck to Working Sites when the graphic designer starts to work on the mockup.
• A client's folder is moved to Archive Sites after the project is closed in SBS