Website Owner Guide

After our consultation, once you decide to move forward, create your GitHub and Cloudflare accounts. On a setup call, Tim guides you through creating an empty private repository and inviting him to work on it. Your website files and hosting stay in accounts you control from the beginning.

After handoff, your normal update routine is simple

Create your GitHub and Cloudflare accounts before the setup call. Use your own email address, turn on two-factor authentication, and keep recovery information somewhere safe. ChatGPT and Codex are for managing your own updates later; you do not need them for Tim to build the website.

Complete these four steps in order. If you created the accounts in Lesson 2, sign in to them here instead of creating them again.

The repository is the online home for your website files. It can be empty when you create it. Tim prepares the Astro project in a local folder, then connects that folder to your repository and uploads the files.

1. 1

   Sign in to your GitHub account and select New repository.

2. 2

   For Owner, select your own account. Enter the Repository name agreed with Tim, such as yourbusiness.com. Enter only the name, without a slash or your username. GitHub displays the address as your-username/yourbusiness.com. The Description is optional; a short description such as “Website for Your Business” is enough.

3. 3

   Use the selections below, then click Create repository.

4. 4

   In the new repository, open Settings, then Collaborators under Access, and select Add people. Enter the GitHub username Tim provides, select his account, and send the invitation.

5. 5

   Send Tim the repository link. Once he accepts your invitation, he can upload and update the website files using his own GitHub account. You remain the owner.

Select these repository options

• Visibility: Private.
• Template: None. Do not start from a template.
• Add a README: Off or unchecked.
• Add .gitignore: None.
• Choose a license: None.

Leave any option to generate starter code off. These selections keep the repository empty so Tim can upload the project without conflicting starter files. Tim includes the appropriate .gitignore in the local project before uploading it, so temporary files and secrets stay out of GitHub.

Download your website later for your own updates

Once Tim has uploaded the website and you are ready to manage it yourself, ask Codex: “Please clone my website repository [paste the repository link] into Documents\Websites and help me sign in to GitHub if needed.” Complete any GitHub sign-in in your web browser, then continue to Lesson 5.

GitHub’s official repository-creation instructions

GitHub’s official collaborator-invitation instructions

Start with one clear change, such as correcting a sentence, replacing a phone number, changing business hours, or adding a new photo.

Look at the private preview just as a customer would. You do not need to review website code.

• Make sure Codex changed the correct page.
• Read the updated words and check names, phone numbers, prices, hours, and spelling.
• Click any button or link that was changed.
• Ask Codex to show the page in a phone-sized view if the layout changed.
• If something looks wrong, describe it or share a screenshot and ask Codex to fix it.

When the private preview looks right, tell Codex to save and publish the change. Codex will create a restore point, send the update to GitHub, and Cloudflare will begin updating the public website.

Most updates appear within a minute or two. You do not need to open Cloudflare or check any technical screens.

1. 1

   Wait about one or two minutes after Codex says the change was published.

2. 2

   Open your normal website address and go to the page you changed.

3. 3

   Refresh the page and make sure it shows the result you approved.

Open the request that matches your situation, replace the words inside brackets, and copy it into a task inside your website project.

If something goes wrong

Tell Codex what looks wrong and what the page should show instead. Ask it to keep every other website change.

Most updates appear within a minute or two. If you still see the old page, use these steps instead of opening Cloudflare yourself.

1. 1

   Make sure you opened the correct public page.

2. 2

   Press Ctrl + F5 to refresh the page completely.

3. 3

   Return to the Codex task where you published the change.

4. 4

   Paste the request below and let Codex check GitHub and the website publishing process for you.