About

I am Kyle Laverty, and I build websites for a living. This course is something I have wanted to make for years. The idea behind it is simple: I want to teach you to build a website the way I was taught, by writing it yourself and understanding every part as you go.

How I learned to do this

Years ago, when I knew almost nothing about code, I found a written tutorial that walked through building a real website by hand. I followed it line by line, and by the end I had a working site I had built from start to finish, with no shortcuts and nobody looking over my shoulder. This was well before a computer could write the code for you, so every piece on the page was there because I had put it there and understood why.

What stayed with me afterward was not the finished site. It was the understanding. I could look at a page and tell how it was put together, and I could change it without breaking it. That feeling, of the code no longer being a mystery, is the thing I most want to hand to you.

Why I made this

There are more ways than ever to get a website online without understanding any of what sits underneath, and for plenty of people that is a perfectly reasonable choice. The trouble usually shows up later, the first time something breaks or needs to change and there is no obvious place to look. Learning by hand asks for more patience at the start, and it pays that patience back many times over once you can read and edit your own work with confidence.

So this course takes the slower path on purpose. You write the markup and the styles yourself, in order, building one real personal site as you go. I teach the same techniques I use on actual client work through my shop, Creative Vets, so what you learn here is not a stripped-down classroom version. It is how I would build it for real.

Where AI fits in

It would be odd to teach a coding course today and pretend AI does not exist, so here is where I stand. I use AI every day in my own work, and it is a genuine part of how I build now. I still believe you should learn the fundamentals by hand first. Understanding the code yourself is exactly what lets you give a tool clear direction, read what it hands back, and notice the moments when it gets something wrong. The fundamentals make you better with every tool you pick up, that one included.

Who this is for

You do not need any experience to start. This is written for complete beginners, and also for people who have used website builders or templates and want to understand what is happening beneath them. If you have ever looked at a web page and wished you actually knew how it worked, you are in the right place.

Start with lesson one