Then it built the whole site in five minutes.
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Hello there,

Every time I build a site from scratch, it's the same slog before I've written a single word.

Pick a theme. Lay out the pages. Fiddle for ages getting the header, footer, and menu to match on every one.

So when people told me an AI could just build the whole thing for me, I rolled my eyes. I figured I'd get a throwaway toy site and end up doing it properly by hand anyway.

Then I actually tried it...

Claude Code built me a full four-page florist site, blog and all, in about five minutes. I never opened the editor once.

Here's the thing, though. There's a right way to do this and a wrong way, and it all comes down to one step at the very start.

Get that step wrong and you get a polished site that's quietly full of made-up details. Get it right and you get something you can genuinely use.

So I wrote up exactly how I did it, including the step that makes or breaks the whole thing.