Module 5 · Publish your changes live
Publish a change to your live site
This is the moment your change goes live — out to your real website, for your customers to see. If you’ve been previewing on localhost, this is the easy, satisfying last step. And from now on it’s the same one sentence, every time.
Watch — hand-picked
The clearest walkthroughs of this step, from creators we rate. Each one’s credited — go give them a follow.
First, a quick connection check (once)
The very first time you publish from your computer, it’s worth making sure everything’s connected. Paste this — Claude will confirm it can reach your live site, and fix the connection if needed:
Check I'm ready to publish (first time only)
Before I publish for the first time, please check that everything's connected: that this project is linked to my GitHub, that my computer is allowed to send updates to it, and that those updates will reach my live site on Vercel. If anything isn't set up or I need to sign in, walk me through it one simple step at a time. I'm not technical.
You might be asked to do a one-time sign-in: a short code appears (like AB12-CD34), a browser opens, you paste the code and click Authorize. That’s a normal, once-ever step that connects your computer to GitHub. Claude walks you through it.
Publish your change
When your preview looks right and you’re happy, this is the whole publish step:
Publish to my live site
My preview looks great. Please publish these changes to my live website now: save the work, send it to GitHub, and let Vercel put it live. Tell me when it's done, and give me the link so I can see it live in my browser.
What happens next
- Claude saves your work and sends it to GitHub.
- Vercel notices and re-publishes your live site automatically — usually within a minute or two.
- Claude gives you your live link. Open it, and there’s your change, out in the world.
That’s it — that’s how you’ll update your website from now on: change it on your preview → check it → say “publish this”. No agency, no waiting, no re-uploading. As often as you like.
You made a change, previewed it privately, published it, and saw it live on your real website — the full loop, start to finish, on your own.
Publish failed, or your live site didn’t update? Don’t worry — your live site is safe and unchanged until a publish fully succeeds. Paste: “Publishing didn’t work — here’s the message I’m seeing: [ paste it ]. Please explain what went wrong in plain English, fix it, and try again.”