Been updating a site a day with AI

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Really really happy with the designs…

My sites have never looked better or functioned better…

It is amazing the difference…

Much better

Your experiences?

I did small sites first - then my first CMS - now today my largest site - largest CMS

Really like the design it came up with… always have to tweak things also… sizes etc - placement… but that’s fine… sometimes it forgets :slight_smile: - presents a cool new menu and a cool footer but then doesn’t create it - I show AI the mock up photos and it gets corrected….

Another trick - pick the best parts of the designs and make a fourth one :index_pointing_up: usually have prompts for three different designs - but sometimes like parts of each… combine and ask for a fourth mock up photo….

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Here are some to view:

Sometimes have to do it myself… Claude is not allowed to edit globals - so I made it from the photo

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Expensive?

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The sites are looking really nice @MichaelDroste, great work on them!

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No $20 plan per month….

Does a small site in a few hours - one session

Then have to wait a few more hours for tokens to return - then can start again…

Check my other thread for design prompt…

Gives you three different styles and then it makes a plan - then tell it to build it….

Here is what I’m using now… I like this a lot…

Modern Design Prompt USE.md (6.3 KB)

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Which AI are you using? I assume ChatGPT or Claude?

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Using Claude… Save $40 if you sign up for yearly plan…

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I also signed up for the yearly Pro plan with Claude as it’s a pretty good deal. Surprisingly though I’m still using ChatGPT for most things.

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Looks better than before, for sure. More modern, clean look.

However—I’ll warn you that I’m extreme at this and others disagree—too much space, particularly vertically. I’m old school. You have to think more newspaper (use all space) than advertising (use negative space). The reason is attention span and habits.

So:

  1. Absolutely make sure your primary offer or the thing you want the visitor to see is “above the fold.” As close to the top as you dare.
  2. Don’t use Spacing 20 between “sections.” Best case in many screen sizes is that the user sees 1.5 sections, which means they get your primary message (see #1) and a hint that there might be more. Worst case is that they only see your primary message. For content-laden sites, you just are pushing the content further away from the user by using large spacings.
  3. Full-width sections (as opposed to multi-card styles) also push additional content downward and away from view.
  4. Remember that scrolling takes an action on the part of the visitor. You’re effectively giving the visitor two choices with huge vertical spacing: scroll to see what else is there, or go to another site and see if that has what they want.
  5. Density of information seen implies density of content. For a single thing/thought, no big deal. For a content-rich site, push the density so the user immediately understands you’re content rich.
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Really great ideas :light_bulb: thank you as always Thom

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Thank you Dan for your kind words - it also is a good deal - agreed