Questions to update a website

I got this great set of questions from rosefox in preparation for discussing updating my website.

Mostly I want to look at the site you already have and learn what you're unhappy with and what you'd like it to do. My main questions are:

- Who's the target audience? How will they find and access the site? What do you want their first impression to be? What's your goal for how they spend their time there?
- Do you want to keep the logo you have now? Are there any specific colors or existing images you want to use for brand consistency?
- Do you want to port over the existing content? Will you be creating additional content from scratch? (I assume you'll want to write any text yourself, and my role is solely design.)
- Do you need to do e-commerce through the site, or is it mostly a pointer to another site where the books can be purchased? Are there any existing systems that the new site needs to work well with?
- Do you want any kind of frequently updated or interactive elements, like blog posts or quizzes, or only static pages?
- What's your plan for getting the link in front of people: social media, advertising, search rankings, handing out business cards?

My answers: (I know more than I realized!)
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"Beatitudes for a Queerer Church" by Jay Hulme

via muccamukk. This made me go "Oooh!" and repost it immediately.

"Beatitudes for a Queerer Church" by Jay Hulme

Blessed are the outcasts;
the ostracized, the outsiders.

Blessed are the scared;
the scarred, the silent.

Blessed are the broken;
for they are not broken.

Blessed are the hated;
for they are not worthy of hate.

Blessed are those who try;
those who transform, who transition.

Blessed are the closeted;
God sees you shine anyway.

Blessed are the queers;
who love creation enough to live the truth of it,
despite a world that tells them they cannot.

And blessed are those
who believe themselves unworthy of blessing;
what inconceivable wonders you hold.

Better late than never

I have owned my dishwasher for 2 years now. I like to run it every few days in the evening, but sometimes I want to retreat upstairs before 9pm when the electricity gets cheaper, and I don't always remember to go back down and start it.

A couple of days ago it finally occurred to me to look for a delayed start function, and there it was, a button clearly labeled Delay that delays the start for an hour every time it's pushed. Now I know!

The two levels are awkwardly laid out and after two years I am still trying to figure out how to load my dishes and containers in it efficiently. On the positive side, it is really quiet and I can't hear it running from upstairs at all.