Build a Training Company Site

This guide builds the site of Atlas Training, a school that trains yoga, pilates and nutrition teachers in Lisbon and Porto. It is the kind of site a small business pays for: it presents the courses in English and Portuguese, brings in leads, takes paid bookings and gives customers a members area. Each chapter adds one part, and each part shows what Lynx does for you as a developer and for the client who runs the site afterwards.

The code is tested: every file the guide shows runs in Lynx's test suite, so it works with the release you install. The finished site is a starter you can clone: LynxCMS/starter-training.

What you build

Chapter	You add	The client gets
1. Plan and install	A Laravel app with Lynx and its modules	An admin to sign in to, with roles
2. The content model	Templates and fields for courses, sessions, instructors and studios	Forms in the admin that fit their content
3. The front end	Views from BlatUI's Bloom template, filters and languages	A site that looks finished, in two languages
4. The editors' side	Roles, previews, scheduling, translation	A team that edits safely
5. SEO	Titles, structured data, sitemap	Courses that show up well in search
6. Leads	An enquiry form, a newsletter form, a CRM link	An inbox of leads, and leads in their CRM
7. Paid bookings	Stripe Checkout and a webhook	Revenue, with seats counted for them
8. Members area	Sign-up, bookings, gated materials	Customers who help themselves
9. Surveys	Course feedback forms for members	Answers, summarised per question
10. Launch	Caching, backups, deploys, AI tools	A fast site that is safe to run

Before you start

You need PHP 8.5, Composer, Node and a Laravel 13 app, or an empty folder to create one in. You should know basic Laravel: routes, Blade, service providers and seeders. Your First Site introduces Lynx itself in thirty minutes; this guide assumes you have read it or are happy to look things up as you go.