Backup, Then Ship
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Saving Your Work with Git and Going Live

Two problems to solve: don't lose your work, and let other people see it. Git saves snapshots, GitHub backs them up, and free hosting puts your site online.

Two problems to solve. First: don't lose your work. Second: let other people see it.

Right now your website exists only on your computer. If your hard drive dies, your project folder gets accidentally deleted, or Claude makes a change that breaks everything, you have no safety net. Let's fix that. Then we'll put your site on the internet.

The Simple Way: Zip Backups

Before you make big changes or at the end of each session, create a backup:

Create a zip file of this entire project called
my-portfolio-backup-2024-01-15.zip and save it to my Documents folder.

Replace the date with today's date. Now you have a snapshot. If something goes wrong, you can extract the zip and start fresh from that point.

Want to automate this? Ask Claude:

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