Claude hands you a zip file containing your whole site. Publishing it takes about ten minutes and zero technical skill. These are the exact steps from our build:
- Download the zip and double-click to unzip it. You get one folder containing your whole site:your-site folder — everything travels together
- index.html — your homepage (this exact name is required)
- questionnaire.html, terms.html … — your other pages
- photo-1.jpg, photo-2.jpg … — every image the pages use
- Go to app.netlify.com and sign up free. "Sign up with Google" is fastest. Skip the welcome questions.
- Click "Add new site" → "Deploy manually."
- Drag the entire unzipped folder — the folder itself, not the files inside it — onto the big drop zone.
- Wait about twenty seconds. Your site is live at a random address like
wonderful-babka-8d8fae.netlify.app. (Yes, really — that was ours.)
Turn on form emails
- Click "Forms" in the left menu. Your forms should be listed by name.
- Add an email notification for each form: Forms → notifications → Add notification → Email → enter your business email → save. Repeat per form.
- Test it: on your live site, submit each form with fake info. Within a couple of minutes it should appear in the Forms list and in your inbox.
Real snag from our build
After the first deploy, the Forms page was empty — no forms listed, no settings to click. Nothing was broken: Netlify only scans for forms at the moment you deploy, and its form-detection switch happened to be off during the first upload.
The fix: confirm "Form detection is enabled" on the Forms page, then drag the same folder onto the Deploys page one more time. The forms appear. If a tutorial's screenshots don't match what you see, suspect a timing quirk before you suspect yourself.
Real snag from our build
The owner previewed the site and the big photo at the bottom showed as an empty gray box. The photo wasn't broken — she had opened the homepage file by itself, away from the folder that contained the images.
The rule: the site is the whole folder. All the pages and photos travel together, every time. Deploy the folder; preview from inside the folder.
You handle
- The Netlify account (yours, on your email)
- The drag-and-drop deploys — it's genuinely just dragging a folder
- Test submissions and checking your inbox
Hand to Claude
- Producing the correctly named, correctly packaged folder every time
- Diagnosing anything from a screenshot when a screen doesn't match the instructions