Two build paths, one outcome: a real website live today. Pick the one that matches how comfortable you are with a computer — there's no wrong answer, only a slower one.
This is the free version. Everything in it is enough, on its own, to get a proper site live today — no half-steps, nothing held back for later. Use it. Forward it. Hand it to whoever at this event needs a website more than you do.
Go to carrd.co and sign up free — no card needed.
Choose whichever one-page layout is closest to what you need: personal, business, portfolio, waitlist.
Your name or business, one sentence on what you do, and how to reach you. That's the whole job.
Use your own photos, or their free stock library if you don't have any yet.
Most people who see this link will open it on a phone, not a laptop.
Free plan gives you a carrd.co address. About £15/year gets you your own domain, e.g. yourname.com.
That's it. You now have a website.
On Windows, install WSL so you have a proper terminal. On Mac, you already have one — Terminal.app. You'll also need Node.js installed (nodejs.org) — Claude Code runs on it.
Anthropic's command-line coding assistant. You describe what you want in plain English, and it writes and edits the actual files for you, right there in your terminal — no separate editor required.
Make a new folder for your site, cd into it, and run claude to start it up. Then give it a real, specific prompt — not a vague one. (Optional: open the same folder in Cursor or VS Code afterwards to see the files it wrote.)
Look at it in the browser before you change anything else.
Free account, new repository, push your project. Ask Claude for the exact commands if you're not sure.
Connect GitHub, import the repository, click deploy. Live URL in under a minute.
Optional. Buy one from Namecheap or Vercel, add it in the Vercel dashboard.
Slower than Track A — but you'll understand exactly what you built, and you can keep changing it forever.
A live site isn't the same as a site that gets you clients. These are Robert Cialdini's six principles of persuasion, applied to a one-page site — not tricks, just honest structure.
Give something before you ask for anything — a real tip, a checklist, a short answer to their actual problem — above the contact form, not behind it.
Ask for a small yes before the big one. A one-field email signup or a single question is an easier first step than "buy now."
Two or three real testimonials — with a name attached — outweigh a page of claims about yourself. No testimonials yet? Say who you've helped informally instead.
State plainly what qualifies you: years doing it, who you've worked with, what you've built. Don't bury it in an "About" page nobody clicks.
Use a real photo of yourself, not a stock one, and write the way you actually talk. People buy from someone, not from a logo.
Be honest about real limits — "taking on 3 clients this month" only works if it's true.Fake countdowns and made-up limits get spotted, and cost you the trust you just built.
If Track B or the conversion section above landed, these are the source material — worth the few hours each takes.
The six principles above, in full — where "Make it convert" comes from.
Makes your customer the hero of your homepage copy, not you — the fastest fix for a site that talks about itself too much.
The research-first, respect-the-reader school of copy — the voice to ask Claude for when your business is built on trust.
The direct-response, get-to-the-point school — the voice to ask Claude for when you need someone to act today.
Matrix gimmick aside — enter your details below if you're interested in me building your website, and I will contact you.