From a rented Squarespace site to a site they own.
We rebuilt the TEACH Foundation's slow, script-heavy Squarespace site into a fast, fully self-hosted website — same message, same photos, none of the platform baggage or monthly fees.
A good-looking site that quietly worked against them.
The TEACH Foundation trains Haitian church leaders through the Master of Arts in Biblical Studies at Emmaus University. Their message was clear — but the Squarespace site carrying it was heavy, rented, and slow on the very connections their students use.
85 requests and 46 scripts loaded on every visit, pulling nearly 10 MB from 10 different domains.
Locked into a monthly Squarespace plan with commercial Adobe fonts they didn't own and couldn't move.
Third-party scripts and CDNs they couldn't control — extra weight that drags on slower Haitian networks.
The numbers tell the story.
Measured live on both sites the same day, on the same connection.
Same message. New experience.
Every word and photo carried over. Drag the handle to compare the homepage, before and after.
Before · Squarespace
After · RebuildDrag the handle · or use arrow keys
Before & after, line by line.
The old build
- 85 requests from 10 different hosts
- 46 scripts plus Adobe Typekit fonts
- ~10 MB downloaded on every visit
- Commercial fonts on a rented license
- Squarespace checkout for donations
- Recurring monthly platform fee
- No control over markup or speed
The new build
- 12 requests, 0 third-party, fully self-hosted
- Static HTML/CSS/JS — no build step
- Self-hosted fonts, hero video & images
- Open-license fonts matched to the original look
- Custom Stripe donation flow, monthly & one-time
- Hosted free on Cloudflare's global edge
- One portable folder — no lock-in
Built to last, not to rent.
Fully self-hosted
Fonts, hero video, icons and images all served from one domain. No Squarespace, no Typekit, no CDN roulette.
Fast on any connection
Static files on Cloudflare's global edge, so the site loads in a fraction of a second — even on slower Haitian networks.
Custom donation flow
A branded donate page with monthly and one-time giving, wired to Stripe through a serverless checkout function.
Rebuilt interactions
The hand-drawn circle, highlight underlines, hero video and gallery reel — all re-implemented without Squarespace's JS.
One design system
Shared tokens, header, hero, prose, board grid and footer across every page — authored from the original design.
They own everything
A single portable set of files. No monthly platform fee, no vendor lock-in, and no font-licensing worries.
The full page, side by side.
Scroll each frame to compare the complete homepage — original on the left, the rebuild on the right.
Both captured at 1440px desktop width on the same day.
A ministry shouldn't have to rent its own front door. The message, the design, and the code should all belong to the people doing the work.
Your site could be next.
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