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At the end of this lesson you can say exactly what a website builder is, what it is not, and which of the six build routes any product belongs to.

At the end of this lesson you can explain what a builder stores, what it renders, and why nobody can hand your site to you as a folder of files.

At the end of this lesson you can register a name, point it at anything, and move a live site without breaking your email.

At the end of this lesson you can pick one of the three real non-builder routes and know exactly what its free hosting will and will not let you do.

At the end of this lesson you have a real, valid, responsive page you wrote yourself — running locally and ready to publish.

At the end of this lesson you have a realistic date for your own site, and you know which part of the work will actually eat the calendar.

At the end of this lesson you have a five-year budget for your own site, including the renewal costs nobody advertises.

At the end of this lesson you have an hour-by-hour plan for getting a real site online today, and you know exactly what that speed costs you.

At the end of this lesson you have worked through every pre-launch item, in order, and you know which ones actually apply to you.

At the end of this lesson you can name every component a builder needs, choose a stack for it, and tell which open-source projects are actually alive.