Week 5: Optimisation, QA and Publishing Like a Pro

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

Build this week: Finish the foundation website and present it.

Skills: Quality assurance, Mobile testing, Performance basics, Content editing, Final publishing, Presentation

What she should understand

A website is not finished when it first appears online. Good website builders test links, check mobile display, fix confusing wording, test calculators, reduce image size and update the sitemap.

Step-by-step QA process

Open every page on the computer.
Open every page on a phone or narrow browser window.
Click every menu link.
Test every calculator with simple numbers.
Check every page title and description.
Check the sitemap URL list.
Check robots.txt.
Fix any spelling or layout issues.
Upload the final version.
Present the website.

Website audit table

Check	Pass?	Notes
Homepage explains the website
Navigation works
Calculator maths works
Mobile layout is readable
Sitemap loads
robots.txt loads
No private information published

Final presentation checklist

She should show:

What folder the files are stored in.
How FileZilla uploads a changed file.
How the calculator works.
One SEO improvement she made.
Where the sitemap is.
One bug she found and fixed.
One thing AI helped with.

Foundation certificate

Project Vera Foundation Complete

Skills:
- HTML pages
- CSS styling
- FileZilla upload
- JavaScript calculator basics
- AI-assisted coding
- SEO basics
- Sitemap and robots.txt
- Website testing

Extension task

Create a new page called changes.html. Each time she improves the website, add a note explaining what changed and why.