Your site has good bones. Let's rebuild for your book launch!

What we agreed on.

• 01 Keep what works. Your color palette and Hannah's intro/history writeup both stay — we build on them, not over them.
• 02 Nav restructure. Leader/Speaker becomes Speaker/Writer. Book gets a dedicated page. Blog stays but becomes a quarterly newsletter archive.
• 03 Photo refresh. You're confirming photo rights Tuesday. If yes, we pull from the church's archive plus your October personals.
• 04 Kill the stale stuff. "Brave & Bold" tagline (no longer used), United Methodist quotes (no longer affiliated), broken podcast links from the deleted page.
• 05 Book page — link to Seedbed for hard copies, Amazon for digital. Info pulled from the Seedbed product page.
• 06 Speaker page — real upcoming dates (October 2026 + February 2027) and links to your full sermons from The Loft's YouTube.
• 07 Instagram embed back, done right. The last attempt fought you; this one shouldn't.
• 08 Email signup — new. Independent list, separate from Seedbed. Quarterly newsletter cadence to start.

The Rebuild, or the Refresh.

The Rebuild is what I'd recommend. Same monthly either way — just a question of how much you want done. Once The Rebuild wraps, your hosting drops to $11/month and you actually own the site. The Refresh stays in place on Squarespace and fixes what's broken if you'd rather not migrate.

Quick explainer: Astro on Cloudflare just means your site is custom-built code (Astro) hosted on Cloudflare, the backbone behind a huge chunk of the internet. Instead of renting Squarespace's templates and editor, the site is yours — faster to load, cheaper to host, and there's no platform between you and the content.

One more wrinkle: if you'd really rather stay inside Squarespace's editor for small tweaks down the road, we can do The Rebuild on Squarespace's newer 7.1 platform instead of Astro — same scope, same price, just a different engine under the hood. Astro is what I'd recommend, but the option's there.

Making changes, going forward.

Fair question: if your site is custom code instead of Squarespace, how do you edit it later? Two real paths — no pressure to pick now, just so you know what's there.

For context: you're paying ~$35/month to Squarespace today. After The Rebuild, Cloudflare hosting is ~$11/month. Light Touch on top brings the total to ~$61/month — modest jump, and you have a person instead of a platform.

Four small things.

1. Pick an option — Rebuild or Refresh.
2. Photos — drop whatever you have into a Google Drive whenever it's ready.
3. Email-list tool preference — or let me pick. I'd default to Kit (formerly ConvertKit): it's the industry standard for authors, free up to 10,000 subscribers, easy to embed, and you can switch to something prettier later if you ever want to.
4. Timeline — if Seedbed is pushing toward a date, share it and I'll pace accordingly. Otherwise The Rebuild is about 3 weeks of build, The Refresh closer to 1–2. The extra months baked into each price cover me setting up analytics, watching for issues, and tweaking as things settle in post-launch.