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 โ‚ฌ20 a month), a small VPS (often from โ‚ฌ1 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.

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Course language: English ยท 19 lessons

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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