Create a website with AI

You describe the website you want to the AI (what it's for, what sections it has, what style you like) and it generates the design, the text and the code; you review it, ask for changes and publish it. You can do it with website builders that have AI built in, with a chat like ChatGPT or Claude, or with AI-assisted coding tools like Claude Code.

The three routes aren't the same. The builder is the easiest, but the website lives inside their platform and under their rules. The chat gives you the code, but you have to know where to put it. The coding assistant creates the whole project on your computer: more control, a bit more of a learning curve. What confuses people most is believing that generating the website is the same as having it published. Then come the domain (the address), the hosting (the computer where the website lives), the contact form, cookies, legal notices, backups and maintenance.

I've tried it with Claude Code, and what came out right straight away, what had to be redone and everything that came afterwards I explain in "I built a website with the help of artificial intelligence". Honest spoiler: the pretty part is the one that costs least. If you want to start, describe your website in a paragraph as if you were explaining it to a friend and ask the AI for a first version; from there, fix it bit by bit.