Long-term stewardship
I became involved in managing an existing church website approximately fifteen years ago, initially sharing responsibility before taking on its ongoing maintenance.
Around 2023, primary responsibility moved to another person and the site was rebuilt in WordPress. I retained editing access and a secondary management role. In summer 2025, I resumed primary responsibility and returned the site to Weebly, a platform that better matched its maintenance needs.
Two stages of modernization
The first 2025 redesign was completed without AI assistance. It introduced a cleaner dark appearance and was positively received, but I remained dissatisfied with parts of the structure and presentation.
In 2026, I completed a broader rebuild. The older site placed too much text on the homepage and contained inconsistent formatting across multiple pages, so the work became a full content and layout reorganization rather than another surface-level refresh.
Human-led, AI-assisted execution
AI assisted with design exploration, content structure, wording, and a custom responsive embedded section developed from requirements we defined together. I made the final decisions and completed the implementation, review, and publishing within Weebly.
What this demonstrates
- Long-term responsibility for a real organization’s public website.
- Working within platform, volunteer, and maintainability constraints.
- Content auditing, navigation redesign, and information prioritization.
- Combining a site-builder workflow with targeted custom code.
- Iterating beyond an acceptable redesign to reach a stronger result.
The latest rebuild has recently launched. Early traffic has increased, but it is too soon to attribute or quantify results; evaluation will continue over time.