diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3655ad5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#require review
+* @llpeterson @drbruced12
+
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-docs.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-docs.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..25d5230
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-docs.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+name: Publish Docs Workflow
+run-name: ${{ github.actor }} is publishing document artifacts 🚀
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+
+          # Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  pages: write
+  id-token: write
+
+# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
+# However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production deployments to complete.
+concurrency:
+  group: "pages"
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  # Single deploy job since we're just deploying
+  deploy:
+    environment:
+      name: github-pages
+      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Setup Pages
+        uses: actions/configure-pages@v4
+      - name: Build html
+        run: make html
+      - name: Upload artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          # Upload build repository
+          path: './_build/html'
+      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
+        id: deployment
+        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4
+
+
+
+      - run: echo "🍏 This job's status is ${{ job.status }}."
diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate-docs.yaml b/.github/workflows/validate-docs.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..af639a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate-docs.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+name: Validate Docs Workflow
+run-name: ${{ github.actor }} is validating document source
+on: [pull_request, workflow_dispatch]
+jobs:
+  Validate_Docs:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - run: echo "🎉 The job was automatically triggered by a ${{ github.event_name }} event."
+      - run: echo "🐧 This job is now running on a ${{ runner.os }} server hosted by GitHub!"
+      - run: echo "🔎 The name of your branch is ${{ github.ref }} and your repository is ${{ github.repository }}."
+      - name: Check out repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Validate source
+        run: make test
+      - name: Build html
+        run: make html
+      - name: List built files
+        run: |
+          ls ${{ github.workspace }}/_build/html
+
+      - run: echo "🍏 This job's status is ${{ job.status }}."
+
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9e4a046..17e1144 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ $(VIRTUALENV):
   source ./$@/bin/activate ;\
   pip install -r requirements.txt
 
-# lint and link verification. linkcheck is built into sphinx
-test: lint spelling linkcheck
+# lint and spelling verification. linkcheck is skipped for now
+test: lint spelling 
 
 # lint all .rst files
 lint: $(VIRTUALENV)
diff --git a/conf.py b/conf.py
index f859a5c..d3caec5 100644
--- a/conf.py
+++ b/conf.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def get_version():
 #
 # This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
 # Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
-language = None
+language = 'en'
 
 # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ def get_version():
     }
 
 # Ignore link check for the following websites
-# linkcheck_ignore = [
-#     'https://SDN.systemspproach.org/',
-# ]
+linkcheck_ignore = [
+     'https://amzn.to/', 'https://amazon.com',
+]
 
 # -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ def get_version():
 # so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
 html_static_path = ['_static']
 
+html_css_files = [
+    'css/rtd_theme_mods.css',
+    ]
+
+
 # HTML Favicon
 html_favicon = '_static/bridge.ico'
 
@@ -252,8 +257,6 @@ def get_version():
 
 def setup(app):
 
-    app.add_css_file('css/rtd_theme_mods.css')
-
 
-    app.add_js_file('https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-C4RNJ35K6B')
+    app.add_js_file('https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-C4RNJ35K6B', loading_method="async")
     app.add_js_file(None, body=GA_INVOKE_JS)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4bd6069..6a83ba6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Sphinx~=4.4.0
+Sphinx~=5.3.0
 doc8~=0.10.1
 docutils~=0.17.1
 reuse~=0.14.0