Tried deploying my first project, but no luck

[perry]

let me try and explain - when i see something like %PUBLIC_URL% on a project that has been built and live, this almost always means that some placeholder somewhere wasn’t switched out for a variable or setting of some kind.

Here is a great guide with some basic troubleshooting:

[Support Guide] Debugging Netlify site builds

Last reviewed by Netlify Support - August, 2023 Note: This article is only about builds within Netlify’s Continuous Integration (CI) environment, as triggered from git commits or from incoming build webhooks. You can learn more in depth about how Netlify builds your site in this article about how our build bots build sites. Some background There are a fair number of reasons that a build could fail in Netlify’s CI environment, even if building works locally. Testing locally is always the place …

and if that doesn’t help, please link us to a build log so we can try and figure out what the problem is.

we’ll get this working, I’m sure of it!