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Gael rebuilt Mark’s wife’s dog-training website with AI, complete with bookings, Google Calendar availability and Stripe payments. After 18 years building professional websites, we think the opportunity goes well beyond making a nice homepage. You can use this process to build sites for clients, or turn your own website into something that does more for your business.
In this episode we break down:
→ The free design skills and hosting behind the site
→ How to give AI enough business context to avoid a generic template
→ Turning image concepts into a consistent website with bookings and payments
→ Client handovers, maintenance and options for editing content
→ SEO, conversion tracking and A/B testing, plus the ongoing services you can offer
A good-looking website is the starting point. Making it useful to the business is where the value is.
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TOOLS AND RESOURCES
AI and design
Claude Code: https://claude.com/product/claude-code
Codex (image concepts and comparison build): https://openai.com/codex/
ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/
Impeccable: https://impeccable.style/
Anthropic frontend-design skill: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/frontend-design
Grill Me (interview skill): https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/productivity/grill-me
Building and hosting
Astro: https://astro.build/
GitHub: https://github.com/
Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/
Bookings and payments
Stripe: https://stripe.com/
Performance tools
Google PageSpeed Insights: https://pagespeed.web.dev/
Lighthouse CLI: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse
⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 – The AI web design opportunity
05:54 – A real business website with bookings
12:40 – Setup, tools and free hosting
17:03 – Business context, design skills and models
24:01 – Design concepts to a consistent website
30:03 – Forms, functionality and going live
36:09 – Client handovers, maintenance and WordPress
46:02 – SEO, tracking and conversion optimisation
