How to Customize & Publish a Simple Website in One Day

Using Gitlab & Netlify, clone an SEO-optimized template, customize it, and launch it instantly on your own custom domain

Created by: Michael Martin
Web Code Coach

What Will I Learn?

• You'll publish a one-page website on your own custom domain name
• You'll configure a one-field form for collecting email addresses through your website
• You'll customize your one-page website with royalty-free high-quality background images
• You'll learn how to combine Netlify and Gitlab to create an automated publishing system for your website
• You'll understand what it means to fork a repo in Gitlab and the simplest way to do it
• You'll learn how to make changes to an HTML file using Gitlab's website

Requirements

• You don't need to know how to code
• You don't need to own a domain, but it's OK if you do
• You don't need to pay a monthly fee to publish your website
• You need a computer with an Internet connection, but it doesn't have to be high end. Even a simple Chromebook will do nicely.

Target audience

• You want to learn how to easily build and publish a website
• You want to build something simple today
• You've been overwhelmed by all the technologies and platforms to choose from
• You want to launch a single webpage that can handle thousands of visitors without paying a monthly hosting fee
• You don't know much about coding, HTML or CSS and don't know where to start
• You want to publish a simple website that's easy to build upon
• You want learn how you can combine Gitlab and Netlify to create a dynamic publishing platform
• BONUS: You want to learn best practices for choosing a domain name