NSW Council of Churches — website onboarding
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Onboarding session · Fri 24 July 2026

Your new website —
live, and yours to run.

Today we put the new nswchs.com site into your own accounts, publish it, point your domain at it, and show you how to edit it yourself — no developer needed.

Prepared by Jordan James Media

The outcome

By the end of this session

  • ✓
    The new site is live on your own Cloudflare account
  • ✓
    nswchs.com points at the new site — your email keeps working, untouched
  • ✓
    The Council owns the domain and the hosting — your Cloudflare account, in the Council's name
  • ✓
    Marshall can make an edit himself and see it go live in about a minute

Before we start · 5 min

Pre-flight checklist

Two free accounts — ideally created under office@nswchs.com so they stay with the Council.

  • 1
    Cloudflare account createdPublishes the site + manages the domain · dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up
  • 2
    Access to the domain's DNSLog into WordPress.com → Domains and check you can change nswchs.com's nameservers. If it says the domain is managed elsewhere, find that login
  • 3
    Where does office@nswchs.com land?Your email is forwarded — we just need to know the inbox it arrives in, so we keep it working
  • 4
    GitHub account createdThis is what gives you your own access to edit the site from now on · github.com/signup

How it fits together

The setup at a glance

GitHubThe files that make up your website
→
Cloudflare PagesPublishes the files as a fast, secure website
→
nswchs.comYour domain, pointed at the new site

Every time the files change, Cloudflare re-publishes automatically. Your email stays on WordPress.com — we preserve those records so nothing breaks.

Run of show · ~45 min

How the session runs

  • 1
    Grant accessMarshall invites Jordan into the Cloudflare account as an Administrator — first thing, so nothing waits on it
    5 min
  • 2
    Connect the site's filesJordan links the website's code repository to Cloudflare
    10 min
  • 3
    Connect Cloudflare Pages → go liveSite publishes to a preview address; we check it loads
    10 min
  • 4
    Point nswchs.com at the new siteDomain switches over; email preserved
    10 min
  • 5
    Edit it yourself — live demoWe give Marshall his editing access, then he makes a real change and watches it publish
    10 min
  • 6
    Handover & next stepsWho owns what, content still to come, how to reach us
    5 min

The whole point

How you'll edit your own site

1 · AskDescribe the change in plain English — “update the history text”, “swap the hero image”
→
2 · AI editsYour AI assistant makes the change to the files for you
→
3 · LiveCloudflare re-publishes automatically — live in about a minute

No code, no CMS logins, no waiting on a developer. If a change ever looks wrong, the previous version is always one click back.

To finish the site

What we still need from you

Not needed today — but these complete the build.

  • A
    Hero imageAction / advocacy theme (your Lightstock subscription)
  • B
    Leader photosPresident, Executive Director, Secretary
  • C
    Denomination logos + verified linksFor the 8-member strip
  • D
    History text + advocacy winsYour better copy + case studies for the top of the page
  • E
    Submission documentsFor the Advocacy area

After today

You're set up to run it

  • ✓
    You own it — the domain and the Cloudflare hosting are the Council's. The site's code is managed by us and can be handed over whenever you want it
  • ✓
    Email untouched — still on WordPress.com, working as before
  • ✓
    Edit anytime — changes publish themselves in about a minute
  • ✓
    We're on call — Jordan James Media stays on hand for anything bigger
Questions? info@jordanjamesmedia.com
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