Project Vera Advanced

A faster, deeper 10-week website course for an 11-year-old who can handle double the workload.

Project Vera Advanced: double-speed foundations, then advanced website building.

This version compresses the original 10-week beginner course into the first 5 weeks, then uses weeks 6–10 for deeper website skills: responsive layouts, reusable design systems, better calculators, quizzes, localStorage, advanced SEO, schema, QA and final publishing.

10 weeks About 1 hour per week Double content Static HTML Calculators SEO + schema

How this advanced version works

  1. Weeks 1–5 move quickly and cover the original foundation material.
  2. Weeks 6–10 add new advanced material for stronger real-world website skills.
  3. Each week has a main build, extension task, AI prompt or testing process.
  4. She should keep a backup copy before each session so mistakes are easy to reverse.

Parent setup recommendation

Use a restricted FTP account limited to a learning folder such as public_html/project-vera-practice/. Do not give full hosting access if it is not needed. Check pages before they are published.

Course pages

Foundation sprint

Week 1: Fast Start: Websites, Files, cPanel and FileZilla

Cover the original Week 1 and Week 2 in one session: understand how websites work, create the first pages and upload them safely.

Build: Create and upload a two-page website.

Open Week 1

Foundation sprint

Week 2: HTML, CSS and Real Website Layouts

Cover the original Week 3 and Week 4: make pages look good and organise them like a real website.

Build: Create a styled 3-page mini website with shared CSS.

Open Week 2

Foundation sprint

Week 3: JavaScript Calculators and AI-Assisted Building

Cover the original Week 5 and Week 6: build calculators, use AI prompts and learn to test AI code.

Build: Create two calculators: dog years and lemonade stand profit.

Open Week 3

Foundation sprint

Week 4: SEO, Useful Content, Sitemaps and robots.txt

Cover the original Week 7 and Week 8: optimise pages and create search engine files.

Build: Optimise the calculator pages and create sitemap.xml and robots.txt.

Open Week 4

Foundation sprint

Week 5: Optimisation, QA and Publishing Like a Pro

Cover the original Week 9 and Week 10: test, improve, publish and present a finished mini website.

Build: Finish the foundation website and present it.

Open Week 5

Advanced build

Week 6: Advanced Layouts: CSS Grid, Reusable Sections and Design Systems

Move beyond basic pages and build a polished, reusable website layout.

Build: Create a polished landing page with hero, cards, feature sections and call-to-action blocks.

Open Week 6

Advanced build

Week 7: Advanced Calculators: Multiple Inputs, Validation and Better Results

Build calculators that feel like real tools, not just basic demos.

Build: Create a pocket money goal calculator with validation and helpful messages.

Open Week 7

Advanced build

Week 8: Quizzes, Local Storage and Interactive Learning Pages

Create a more interactive website that remembers progress on the device.

Build: Create a website safety quiz that stores the last score.

Open Week 8

Advanced build

Week 9: Advanced SEO: Schema, Open Graph, Better Content and Internal Linking

Learn deeper SEO concepts that make pages clearer to search engines and better when shared.

Build: Add FAQ schema and Open Graph tags to a calculator page.

Open Week 9

Advanced build

Week 10: Final Advanced Project: Build a Mini Tool Website

Create a polished, advanced static website with multiple pages, calculators, quiz, SEO files and a professional QA process.

Build: Finish Project Vera Advanced as a complete mini website.

Open Week 10