A professional Gmail, your master identity
Create a separate, professional Gmail address for all your web work, add recovery details, and turn on 2-Step Verification so nobody else can get in.
Why this matters
Almost every tool in this course lets you sign in with Google: ChatGPT, Vercel, and many more later. That makes your Google account the master key to your whole working life as a web developer. Whoever controls that one account can get into everything else.
That's why you're creating a new account, only for this work, instead of using the email you've had since school. A separate account keeps client emails away from family group chats and promotions. It looks professional when a business owner sees it on an invoice. And if your personal email is ever hacked, your web work stays safe, and the other way round.
You'll also turn on 2-Step Verification. This is the single most useful security habit you'll learn in this course. With it on, a stolen password alone isn't enough to get into your account.
In the full lesson
- The idea in plain English
- Do it
- Check it worked
- Quick check
- What you can do now
The step-by-step, the prompt to copy, the video and the check-it-worked list, for every lesson in all 15 modules. GHS 399 ($40), paid once by mobile money or card, yours to keep.