# Learner review — Build a business website

**Local required walkthrough passed, 19 September 2026.** Course: [Build a business website people can explore and contact](../course-content/appmint-build-a-business-website.md). Own learner Jordan Morgan, Cedar & Form, organisation `cedar-local-mu8892bk`, site `cedsite`. Studio 0.6.2 and local AppEngine; anonymous website via an isolated copy of the real base-app renderer using this organisation's own registered application. No demo data or production writes.

## Instruction-by-instruction evidence

All filenames refer to [the local evidence directory](assets/website-local-20260919/).

| Course action | Actual result | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Prerequisite and Part 1.1 | Own signup completed in welcome course; selected cedsite and opened New Web Page | 01–02 |
| Part 1.2 | Complete supplied homepage HTML applied through editor | 03 |
| Part 1.3 | Selected heading and inspected editing surface/tree | 04-heading-selected |
| Part 1.4 | Changed headline visually to Design a home that works for your life | 05 |
| Part 1.5 | Synced canvas, replaced placeholder email, applied HTML with headline preserved | 06 |
| Part 1.6 | Actual Phone View selected: iframe448px/content446px, single-column layout; contact checked | 07–08 |
| Part 1.7 | Saved cedar-and-form name/slug and descriptive title; saved page appeared | 09–10 |
| Part 1.8 and Try it | Left and reopened All Pages/Edit; changed service heading to Thoughtful room refresh; saved and reopened | 11–13 |
| Part 2.1 | Applied Services starter and saved services record in same site | 14–16 |
| Part 2.2 | Changed both homepage Services links to /services, applied and saved | 17 |
| Part 2.3 | Site Config Pages → Home page, chose cedar-and-form, saved and reopened | 18–19 |
| Part 2.4–5 | Anonymous local renderer served actual saved homepage and Services; reciprocal navigation and mailto destination matched | 20–22 |
| Part 2.6 | Both routes at430px and320px: scrollWidth equals viewport, navigation repeated | 23–24, mobile-readback.json |
| Part 2 Try it | Independent root reviewer in separate anonymous context found three services and consultation action, then Home/Let's talk; no email sent | 25–26 |
| Part 3.1 | Description and keywords entered, toolbar saved, page reopened and values read back | 27–30 |
| Public metadata | Anonymous page title Cedar & Form — Interior Design \| cedsite; exact description and keywords | final-public-metadata.json |
| Part 3.2 | History list showed four versions; View V4 opened snapshot on canvas. Left without saving or restoring | 31,33 |
| Part 3.3 required preparation | Entered www.cedarandform.example in real Active Site domain field; captured then cleared without submitting Connect | 36-domain-entry-visible |
| Part 3.4 and Try it | Chose Request a consultation → CRM lead; reservation only after selecting a booked time. Selected next enquiry course | this record and manuscript example |

## Findings corrected in the course

- WEB01-001, missing learner account: resolved through the genuine own signup prerequisite and authenticated actions above.
- WEB01-002, incorrect phone screenshot: replaced with actual narrow editor capture07; retained independent public430/320 checks.
- Homepage selection moved to **Site Config → Pages → Home page → Save changes**; replaced the obsolete Info instruction.
- Fresh sign-in can have no Active Site selected. Added Choose a site before looking for its controls.
- Description/Keywords save now names the toolbar Save and explicit close/reopen check. Updated title explanation to observed current local result.
- History View loads a snapshot on the canvas. Opening History from that snapshot yielded Nothing here. Added clear return through All Pages/Edit, without saving merely to exit the snapshot.
- Replaced older production screenshots/fixture identifiers with this local learner's actual evidence. The production companion brief now uses the same scene sequence and evidence.

## Boundaries and observations

The core lesson makes and checks a two-page website. It explicitly leaves a full custom-domain connection and a destructive restore demonstration as optional later footage: no controlled custom domain was available, and neither Connect nor Restore was submitted. No DNS, public production site, email inbox, CRM lead, booking or payment was changed. `hello@cedarandform.example` is deliberate fiction, not a working inbox. No new video recordings were made.

A recovered Home screen displayed Custom domains “Not on this plan”; this conflicts with the user's stated free-product policy and was reported to root for platform-wide follow-up. After a coordinated server restart its usage panel temporarily showed Usage is not available right now; that is not evidence of a domain connection failure. Domain submission was not tested by this lesson.

The browser/server crashed during the broader review. Own account was signed in again through the actual password form; saved page records and metadata remained. A coordinated Studio restart occurred with no unsaved edits. Captures34 and35 are rejected transient states, not instructional evidence. Capture36 is the inspected visible domain field. The public renderer remained live and final metadata was independently read again.

No application source changes were needed for the required website steps in this pass. Capture automation used actual editor input and visible application actions; public checks read the resulting saved records.

Follow-up control check: Site Config opens the current editor with **Identity → Title**; actual enabled input read `cedsite` (37-site-title-control). No rename or save performed. Corrected the remaining old Info label in the metadata advice.