Your First Real Project, Complete Resource Pack

Everything from this section, gathered. This is the page to come back to on your next project.

Building the site

The Portfolio Site Kickoff Prompt
The prompt that turns an empty folder into a complete portfolio site.

Permission Demo Prompts, Edit, Run and Say No
Three small prompts that show you each permission gate, including one built to be refused.

Three Conversation Patterns, In Full
Single clear request, iterative refinement, and plan first, kept exactly as they happened.

The Prompt-Writing Prompt
Use one AI to write the prompt for another, with the full result it produced.

Judging what comes back

Accept, Reject, Redirect
The three scenarios that build the judgment, and the three questions to run everything through.

Three Ways to Ask, Three Kinds of Feature
A simple feature, a messy one and a detail-heavy one.

The Five Design Improvements Review
Ask Claude which documented design rules your project is breaking. Works on any project, at any stage.

Three Plain-English Bug Reports
Describe the symptom, not the fix, and let Claude find the gap.

Going live

Deploy Toolkit, GitHub, Vercel and the CLIs
The accounts to create and the tools Claude installs for you.

The Full Deploy Sequence
Seven prompts, laptop to public live URL, without leaving the terminal.

Static Site Deploy Starter
The gitignore and vercel.json, with a note on every line.

What Went Public, Your Email and Claude's Signature
Two things went online with your first push. Here is what to do about each.

Making it yours, and fixing it

Make It Yours, Images and Five Challenges
Your own photos, then two of five challenges.

The Five Common Issues and Their Fixes
The five problems every first project hits, each with the prompt that clears it.

The one habit to carry forward

When something breaks, describe the symptom, not the fix.

You do not need to know what is wrong before you ask. You describe what you see, clearly, and you let Claude find the cause. That single move keeps paying off on every project you build from now on.

What is in your hands at the end of this section

A working portfolio you built one feature at a time through conversation. Three conversation patterns you can recognise on sight. Three bugs you fixed by describing them in plain English. And one live URL that anyone in the world can open right now.

Every item on that list is something you decided into existence, by speaking to an AI in plain English and judging what came back. That is orchestration, and it is the skill the rest of the course builds on.

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