Building websites with Claude, a VPS and ForgeCMS
From an empty server to your own website: you describe what you want, Claude Code builds it. No coding skills, no website-builder subscription. Videos in German for now, every step in English text.
In this course you build your own website the way we do it ourselves every day: a small server on the internet, Claude Code as your helper and ForgeCMS as a lean system without a database. You describe in your own words what you want. Claude writes the files, sets up the server and explains what it did.
By the end of the course
- your website runs under your own domain, with HTTPS,
- your texts live as plain files in your own repository,
- you know how to change texts, images and pages yourself,
- you can add modules such as a contact form, a blog or a shop,
- and you know how to get back into it even months later.
What you need: a laptop or PC, a Claude subscription (Pro, about โฌ20 a month), a small VPS (often from โฌ1 a month) and, if you like, your own domain. You don't need to know how to code.
How you learn: every lesson has a short video and the text to read along. The videos are in German for now; the English text covers everything they show. Mark each lesson as done when you're finished; the course remembers where you are. The first two lessons are free.
Participants of the online workshop get the course included.
Course outline
Before we start
- Welcome Preview 5 min
- How ForgeCMS works Preview 10 min
- Claude Code: your AI in the terminal 10 min
The server
- Renting a VPS 15 min
- Logging in with SSH 10 min
- Claude Code on the server 15 min
Your first page
- Codeberg and your content repository 15 min
- The first prompt: your site appears 20 min
- app.sml, pages and routes 15 min
- Writing in Markdown 15 min
Design
- Colours, images and banners 15 min
- Several languages 10 min
Going live
- Domain and DNS 10 min
- HTTPS and running 24/7 10 min
- Imprint and privacy policy 15 min
Modules
- Contact form, newsletter, blog, events, shop 20 min
Working well with Claude
- Good prompts 15 min
- When something goes wrong 10 min
- Coming back months later 10 min