You don't rebuild a house to fix a squeaky door. Today: precise, surgical edit requests instead of “start over.”
Video script (for recording): "Three days in and your site's got real content in it now — which means today matters. Learn to ask for small, exact changes so you never lose the parts that already work."
Install Claude Code, ship your first live page
Turn a plain-English idea into a working page
Edit what it built — ask for changes without breaking things
Understand what got created: files, folders, why they matter
Connect to GitHub so your work is never lost
Get a site live: your first real deploy
Fix things when they break — read errors without panicking
Add a second page and link it up: your landing page
Automate updates: push once, redeploy every time
Ship the deliverable: portfolio + business landing page, live
Claude Code remembers what it just built in this session — you're not starting over every time. That means the fastest way to fix something small is a small, specific request, not "redo the whole page."
"This page looks bad, start over."
"The Services section's cards are too close together — add more space between them, and make the heading font slightly larger."
A surgical request touches only what you named. A rewrite request risks losing the parts that were already right.
Color, spacing, font size — one thing, not a list of five.
Do this two more times with two more specific, small requests. Notice how each one only changes what you asked for.
Tell Claude Code exactly what changed unexpectedly: "the services section disappeared after that last edit — bring it back." It can see its own recent changes and correct course.