Hey Holly I actually put one of my sites in maintenance mode for a while when I was doing some fixes. it was also a fairly new site and I regretted it. It hurt my early-stage growth numbers. So I would endorse just leaving up and continuing to make changes as you go.

Reason is the profiled images are not of me and it’s a “me” my name website. I’m updating it to a new gp site with refilled content. I’m working on updating the person images. It’s not a NEW site I’ve had it for years. I just need a couple days. There’s got to be a way. Maybe through my domain registrar admin login?

You dont need to hide it just build it slowly

Hi
If it is for a short time
You log into the back office of your website
Go to settings
Click reading
Scroll to search engine visibility
Tick that box
Hope this helps

It's totally natural to feel like we need to hold back our site until our "final draft" is ready, but there's really no reason to hide it. Remember, in those beginning stages your site is almost just for you. Traffic isn't there just yet. So don't even sweat it. Continue progressing through the lessons and building your site. And the great thing is that when you feel like your site is more complete and ready for eyes to see it, that's usually when those initial blips of traffic find their way to it. :)