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Project: a landing page

Build a sourced Astro landing page, review it locally, and deploy the reviewed commit through GitHub and Vercel.

Start with real source material. Finish with a reviewed GitHub commit and a working Vercel URL.

Step	Lesson	Evidence
1	Prepare assets and a brief	Public-safe source inventory and approved brief
2	Build the knowledge base	Sourced content and explicit gaps
3	Write `design.md`	Approved visual and responsive rules
4	Approve the implementation plan	Routes, files, milestones, checks, non-goals
5	Build in milestones	Running Astro site and reviewable commits
6	Review and fix locally	Browser, content, link, and accessibility evidence
7	Deploy through GitHub and Vercel	Reviewed source and live URL
8	Finish only the launch layers needed	Required launch extras, or a deliberate deferral

For a live class, use the strict 120-minute runbook.

Gather publishable source material, record where it came from, and approve a narrow landing-page outcome.

Convert approved source material into a compact, cited content file that the site can safely use.

Turn real brand inputs and chosen references into reviewable visual, responsive, and accessibility rules.

Convert approved content and design into routes, files, milestones, checks, integrations, and non-goals before code.

Scaffold Astro and implement the approved landing page in small, running, reviewable milestones.

Test the actual landing page at useful viewport, keyboard, content, link, and build boundaries and fix only evidenced issues.

Push the reviewed landing-page commit to GitHub, import it into Vercel, and verify the production result.

Add domains, metadata, forms, analytics, and search tooling only when the approved brief names the need.