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New website. The email didn't even notice.

A kindergarten moved to a new website without its email going quiet for a single minute.

Role: Website, DNS, SEO
Year: 2026
Pages: 21
Site: Live vrticcucu.edu.ba ↗

What changed

#1
on Google and on the map for “vrtić Alipašino Polje”, with both buildings in the map's top 3 (27 Sep 2026)
#2
on the map for “jaslice Sarajevo” and “privatni vrtić Sarajevo” (27 Sep 2026)
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of email downtime. In the director's words: “the mail did not stop for a single minute”.

What worried us most was losing our email when we moved to the new site, because that address is how we communicate with parents. Ahmed changed only what genuinely had to change, and the mail did not stop for a single minute. The new site clearly separates our two buildings and age groups, and it works properly on a phone, which matters because that is how most parents find us. Everything he said he would do, he did, and he showed us how he had checked it.

Tarik KrkbeševićDirector, Vrtić Ću-Ćutranslated from Bosnian

The story

Vrtić Ću-Ću runs two buildings in Sarajevo, for kids from six months old to school age. Their website sat on a platform that was shutting down.

The tricky part wasn't the website. Their email ran through another company's control panel, and that email is how they talk to parents. Break it, and a kindergarten goes silent.

So the website moved, and the email never noticed.

What I didon this one.

DNS
Moved only what had to move.
Two records changed, the ones that point the domain at the new server. The mail records and all three sender checks (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) stayed exactly as they were.
Email
The form uses the mail that already worked.
The contact form signs in to the school's existing mailbox. The obvious server name looks right and quietly fails, so a small script tests the connection before every upload.
SSL
Caught a half-finished certificate.
The first certificate only covered the bare domain, because www still pointed at the old platform when it was issued. Reissued to cover both, and checked.
Keywords
A word that means two things.
“Jaslice” means a nursery, and also a Christmas nativity scene. Its search volume spikes every December for the wrong reason. The page targets “jaslice Sarajevo”, which only parents type.
QA
Tested like a parent in a hurry.
52 of 52 buttons and links pass automated checks, and all 19 tested pages fit an iPhone screen without sideways scrolling.
Speed
The fastest kindergarten site in the search.
0.4 s to show the main content on desktop, PageSpeed 100 in all four categories on desktop. On a slowed phone test it beat the other five kindergartens Google showed.