homepage.html
Eight Saturday mornings where kids write a real website in plain HTML and CSS: a guestbook, a hit counter, GIFs they drew themselves. On the last Saturday it goes live, and the whole class joins one webring.
No experience needed · laptops provided · six kids per tutor
class-of-autumn.jpg · 640×480
By the eighth Saturday each kid has a site with all six, built from an empty file and nothing borrowed.
index.html
Headings, colours and a tiled background they picked, written tag by tag.
guestbook.html
Friends sign it, and your kid approves every entry before it shows.
counter.gif
Six digits that tick up every time grandma visits the page.
links.html
Their favourite corners of the web, laid out in a table they built.
gifs/
Drawn pixel by pixel, then set to spin, blink or wave.
webring.html
An 88×31 button that links their site to the rest of the class.
Two mornings per stage, three hours each, a tutor for every six kids. Nobody falls behind; the fast ones get extra GIFs.
saturday-07.jpg · launch week
Tags and your name in lights
Notepad open, the first heading typed, the page opened in a browser. By lunch on day two it has their name, a colour and a background.
Tables, links and a guestbook
A links page laid out in a table, then a guestbook that friends can sign and your kid approves.
GIFs and a hit counter
Drawing GIFs pixel by pixel, a little JavaScript, and a counter that knows when grandma has visited.
Publish and join the ring
The site goes live on its own address, joins the class webring, and the family comes to the launch party.
counter.gif
homepages launched since 2019
Each homepage gets an 88×31 button and a place in the webring, with next, previous and random. These are this term’s.
Everything a Saturday needs is in the fee, including the laptop if they don’t have one.
fees.txt
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Full term
$320Eight Saturdays, 10:00 to 13:00
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Second child
$280Same term, same table
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Pay what you can
from $40Two seats a term, no questions asked
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Laptop loan
FreeOurs, wiped and ready each week
The short answers. The long ones happen over coffee on the first Saturday.
Something else? Write to hello@example.com and a tutor answers.
Does my kid need to know anything about computers?
No. If they can type their name and save a file, they are ready. The first Saturday starts with an empty Notepad window.
Why plain HTML instead of a website builder?
Because they will understand every line of it. A builder hides the page; writing it by hand shows them how the web works.
What do they need to bring?
A water bottle. Laptops, headphones and snacks are ours, and their own laptop is welcome too.
Is their homepage public?
Only if you say so. Every site launches behind a family password, and the webring lists first names only.
What if they miss a Saturday?
The tutor sends that week’s file home, and the next Saturday starts with fifteen minutes of catching up.
guestbook.html
Leave your details and we hold a seat for two days while you decide.
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