This comprehensive course walks you step by step through building a modern website from scratch, even if you’ve never coded before. You’ll begin with an overview of how websites work, what you’ll be building, and how to set up your computer for coding. These first lessons give you a clear understanding of the web development workflow and prepare your environment for hands-on practice.

You’ll then start building the homepage of your website using Node.js to create a server, serve HTML pages from the back end and launch your site live right away. Lessons guide you through adding CSS for styling, images, fonts, navigation bars, icons and partials for reusable layouts. You’ll also enhance the user experience by using JavaScript to create sliding menus and CSS animations for dynamic visual effects.

The course continues with building additional pages like a contact page, projects page, individual project pages and an about page. You’ll learn to create input forms with HTML, send JSON data from the front end to the back end, hide sensitive variables with .env files, send emails using JavaScript, and update your pages after email actions. Lessons also show you how to structure your content by writing JSON files, looping through objects, sorting projects with JavaScript functions and filling in unique content on each page.

Finally, you’ll make your website responsive by adding mobile-friendly styles and deploy it to Google Cloud. You’ll learn to set up your environment for Google Cloud, communicate with GCloud through the terminal and upload your Node.js project to the cloud for public access. By the end of the course, you’ll have built a complete, professional website and learned the skills needed to create future projects with confidence.