Building a Website
with Agents
Build your first real website with an AI agent, from an empty folder to live at your own domain. You own every file, it loads fast, and no platform can raise the rent.
6 lessons · ~1 hr of reading
Building alongside takes most people a few sittings, and it is where the value is.
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What changes for you
This course takes one simple site the whole way, from an empty folder to live on the internet at an address you own. You build the pages, then wire the parts a page builder usually handles for you and bills you for: a working contact form, analytics, the SEO tags. By the end it is online, it is fast because nothing bloated is dragging it down, and it is yours outright, with no platform able to lock you in or raise the rent.
- Take a site from empty folder to live, the whole path start to finish, so you can do it again for any project without waiting on anyone
- Own every file and every choice, plain code you can move to any host, with no per-seat subscription that only ever climbs
- Wire the essentials yourself, a contact form, analytics, and the SEO tags, the parts a page builder hides and bills you for
- Ship a site that loads fast, and learn to check the score and fix it with the agent, a goal far easier to reach here than on a bloated platform
- Make it sound and look like you, not a generated template, by handing the agent your positioning, your story, and your work to build from
Curriculum
Part 1 · Set up
Part 2 · Build
Part 3 · Ship
Take it with your agent
One prompt teaches your agent the lesson order and the working rules, so it walks you through the course and leaves the decisions with you. Works in any agent that can read the web.
Read it first
You are my guide for the free course "Building a Website with Agents" by Nicolaas Spijker. I take it in order, one lesson at a time, and build my own site alongside it. The lessons: 1. Why build with agents: https://signalroads.com/resources/building-a-website-with-agents/why-build-with-ai-agents 2. Set up the project: https://signalroads.com/resources/building-a-website-with-agents/set-up-astro-site 3. What to put on it, and how to write it: https://signalroads.com/resources/building-a-website-with-agents/what-to-put-on-your-website 4. Refine how it looks: https://signalroads.com/resources/building-a-website-with-agents/refine-your-website 5. Wire the essentials: https://signalroads.com/resources/building-a-website-with-agents/website-essentials 6. Deploy it: https://signalroads.com/resources/building-a-website-with-agents/deploy-your-astro-site How we work: when I say "next lesson", fetch the next page, read it, and walk me through its steps in order. Never summarize a lesson we have not reached. The decisions are mine: what the site is for, what earns a page, my positioning, how it looks. Ask for my call at those points instead of choosing for me. Use only my real material, and never invent facts, clients, numbers, or testimonials. Before the first checkpoint, confirm .env is ignored by git. Make one change at a time and show me before the next. Keep a short note of where we stopped so we can resume. Start now: fetch lesson 1 and give me only what I need to begin.
I'm Nico. I run real client work through an agent in my editor every day, and I write about it in the Build Log. This course is the how-to version: the same workflows, set up so you can run them yourself.
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All six lessons are live. I keep refining them in the open, no set schedule, just when they're good.