A Beginner's Guide to Google Cloud Data & AI Services: AI-Powered Landing Page Workshop

Colab Innovation Campus, No, 1 Technology City Boulevard/Crocodile road, Kaduna 800242, Kaduna, Kaduna, 800242

GDG Cloud Kaduna

Welcome to the foundation of modern data analytics! This session is perfect for beginners eager to navigate Google Cloud...

Jun 5, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (UTC)

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Key Themes

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About this event

Today, we are focusing on a highly satisfying and essential skill for any developer or data professional: building a live, user-facing web asset and launching it under a unique domain name.

Instead of writing repetitive HTML/CSS code from scratch or getting trapped in a complex hosting server setup, we will use Google AI Studio's Build Mode to instantly generate, style, and structure a high-converting web landing page. Then, we'll take that app code live and tie it to a custom domain name.

🏗️ Today’s Technical Roadmap

  1. Prompt-to-Component in AI Studio: Utilizing Build Mode to write precise, structural prompts for our landing page. You will learn how to design layouts, input call-to-action buttons, and refine user interface styles iteratively via the chat canvas.

  2. Asset Injection: Leveraging built-in visual features to generate contextual imagery and placeholder design styles to make the page pop.

  3. The Code Hand-Off: Moving your completed, fully responsive code assets safely out of the AI Studio sandbox by downloading the direct project bundle or linking it smoothly into version control.

  4. Production Cloud Hosting: Deploying your web files instantly to production-ready infrastructure (like Cloud Run or a secure hosting platform) so it resides on a public, live server URL.

  5. Domain Mapping & DNS Basics: The final polish. We will walk step-by-step through configuring environment records and updating DNS settings (A/AAAA/TXT records) with a domain registrar to seamlessly map your custom domain name to your live, running web app.

🌟 Why This Session is Important

  • Total Autonomy: You no longer need to rely on cookie-cutter page builders. Knowing how to prompt a custom interface, modify its raw files, and point it to a real domain gives you complete control over your product ideas.

  • The Complete Product Lifecycle: A project isn't truly finished when it looks nice on your local machine. Understanding the DNS layer and public domain configuration rounds out your identity as a developer who can handle things from concept all the way to shipping.

  • Instant Professional Proof-of-Work: Have a personal portfolio, a community cohort, or a data science project you want to display? You will walk away from this session with the exact template to spin up beautifully branded web properties in minutes.

📝 What You Need to Bring

  • Your Laptop (fully charged).

  • A Domain Name: If you already own a custom domain (from Namecheap, Google Domains/Squarespace, Hostinger, etc.), have your registrar login credentials ready. If you do not own one yet, don't worry! We will show you exactly how to procure and configure one.

Speaker

  • Peter Okwukogu

    CoLab Innovation Hub

    Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Data Cloud

Host

  • Peter Okwukogu

    CoLab Innovation Hub

    Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Data Cloud

Organizers

  • Peter 'Pablo' Okwukogu

    Colab Innovation Hub

    Data Scientist & Community Lead

  • Robert John

    Data Team Lead

  • Asiya Amanda Pada

    CoLab Innovation Hub

    Aspiring AI Engineer