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Website in a Week: a week of short lessons, inside Pro. No coding experience needed.
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Website in a Week: what you'll build
Short lessons, built to be done in a week. Each module ends with something real you've built, not a quiz.
Module 1
Deciding what to build
You come out with: You know what your first site is for, and you haven't spent a penny yet.
- Picking something narrow enough to actually finish
- The three-question test we run before starting any new site
- Why the name matters less than you think
Module 2
Getting it live
You come out with: There is a real page, on a real domain, that you can send someone.
- Domain and hosting: the decisions that are painful to undo
- Building the first page from nothing
- Deploying, and what to do when a deploy goes wrong
Module 3
Writing pages that can be found
You come out with: Your pages are built so search engines can understand them.
- What a page needs before it has any chance of ranking
- Titles and headings: the highest-leverage edit on any page
- Publishing the next five pages without starting from scratch
Module 4
Keeping it going
You come out with: You have a rhythm, and the site grows without a burst of enthusiasm.
- The challenge board, and using a deadline properly
- What to update, what to leave alone, what to delete
- Where to go next once the first site is real
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Before you start
Questions
What does Pro cost, and what do I get?
Pro is the only way into the community. It’s in early access at half price: €48.50 a month or €485 a year, including VAT. Enter the code BWSEARLYACCESS at checkout. The normal price is double, €97 a month or €970 a year.
You get Website in a Week, our full courses, the Pro-only chat and challenge board, and help from us when you ask. It renews until you cancel, and you can cancel any time from your account.
When early access ends we email you at least 30 days before your next renewal, so you can cancel if you don’t want the new price. The full terms are in our terms for paid services.
I've never built a website. Is this for me?
Yes. It starts from “you have nothing”. You don’t need to know what a domain is, and you don’t need to have written code.
You do need a few hours a week, and to be willing to publish something that isn’t perfect yet.
I run a business. Do I have time for this?
Plan on a few evenings a week. Every page you write keeps working while you’re busy with the rest of your business.
Does Facebook even work any more?
For what most people try to do with it, no. For what we do with it, yes, and the gap between those two things is basically everything we teach.
Chasing follower counts and posting links into the void stopped working years ago. What still works is narrower, slower and much less glamorous, and it’s what put the first real audience in front of our sites. We teach that, including the parts that make it look like we’re leaving reach on the table.
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