Publish It Yourself
A beginner's path to putting your own work on the open web. It starts with no-code publishing and moves to building and shipping pages with Claude Code, one small step at a time.
Most people who make something small on the web, a calculator, a chart, a quiz, a one-page site, get stuck at the same place. The thing works on their own computer, but they cannot put it in front of anyone else. The gap between “it runs when I double-click it” and “here is a link” feels much bigger than it actually is.
This is a running series of plain-language guides that close that gap. No jargon where a normal word will do, no assumed knowledge, and each guide picks up where the last one left off.
The path
The guides are meant to be read in order, though each one stands on its own.
- Publish a single HTML file with GitHub Pages. The no-code starting point. You stay entirely in your browser, drag a file into a web page, flip one switch, and you have a real, shareable web address. Nothing to install.
- Build and publish with Claude Code. The next step up. Instead of making a page elsewhere and uploading it, you generate it on your own machine with Claude Code and publish it by describing what you want. This is where a terminal enters the picture, gently.
Who it is for
Anyone curious enough to have made a little web thing, or to have asked an AI to make one, who wants it to live at a proper address. No coding background is assumed. If you can follow a recipe, you can follow these.
Why I write these
The barrier to putting something you made in front of other people should be close to zero. The tools are finally good enough that it can be, but the instructions are usually written for people who already know. These guides are my attempt to write the version I wish beginners were handed.
This page will grow as I add guides to the series. Each new one is linked below as it is published.