// summer 2026 · beginners welcome
How to Build a Website
Five days. Zero experience needed. One real website, built by you.
You will learn how to build a real website. Not a tutorial you copied. Not a template someone else designed. A website you made from scratch — with your name on it, your content in it, and your code running it.
In five days you'll go from opening a blank file to publishing a working multi-page website using HTML and CSS. No prior experience needed. Just curiosity and a laptop.
What We'll Do
Session 1
How the Web Actually Works
What HTML is, how browsers read it, and how to build your first page from a blank file. Headings, paragraphs, links — the building blocks of everything on the internet.
Session 2
Making it Look Good
Intro to CSS — the language that controls colors, fonts, and spacing. Your page goes from plain text to something that actually looks designed.
Session 3
Layout
How to arrange things on a page using CSS. Navigation bars, sections, sidebars. This is where it starts feeling like a real website.
Session 4
Images & Links
Adding images, creating a second page, linking everything together. By end of day you have a multi-page site.
Session 5
Polish & Publish
Final touches, fixing anything that bothers you, and showing your site to the group. You leave with something you're proud of — and the foundation for every other LabCats course.
The Details
- Who it's for: Rising 7th–11th graders · No experience needed
- Format: In person (online option) · 5 days · 2–3 hours per day · Maximum 8 students
- When: Summer 2026 · Dates TBD
- Cost: $650 for the full intensive
- What you need: A laptop and a browser · That's it.
What students & parents say
My girls have taken classes with LabCatsCoding for a couple of years. They really enjoy it and have been learning a lot. My older daughter and other LabCats kids even won a coding competition sponsored by Facebook.
Parent, two students
hanks so much for all the extra love, care and encouragement and coding (!) you gave our daughter. She's been beaming with pride, having tackled such a huge project."—
Parent of a LabCats student since 4th grade
"It is really fun and if you do it long enough, you will be able to make your own apps and go at your own pace."
10th Grader
Learning to code with Elizabeth has been a great experience — lots of fun and lots learned!"
High School Student
// What Comes Next
This is just the beginning
How to Build a Website is the first step on the full LabCats path. Students who finish this course can move into JavaScript, game development, databases, and eventually building their own full-stack web apps — some of which have ended up in the Apple Store and in the Congressional App Challenge.
Reserve Your Spot
Dates are being finalized now. Drop your info and we'll reach out as soon as the schedule is set.