Sample prompts

Not sure what to say?

Copy one of these into Lanlan and go. Your first message doesn't have to be perfect. Lanlan will ask you questions.

Start simple

Use Lanlan to build a website for my [business or organization]. I work with [who you serve] on [what you help them with]. Warm and personal, not corporate.

I have a site already

Use Lanlan to rebuild my website. My current site is [your URL]. Use it as a starting point for my content and vibe, but I want something fresher and easier to update. Here's what I do: [one sentence].

Slow down first, with the Design Team

Use Lanlan to build a website for my [business]. Before we start building, I'd like the longer sit-down with the Design Team. I want to think through brand voice, audience, and visual direction first.

Get a second opinion

I built a site at [your URL] and I want to know what's missing. Ask the Lanlan Design Team to challenge me on the weakest parts: what a skeptical visitor would think, and what I should add or cut. Weigh in on whether the colors and fonts feel right for [who you serve].

For an organization

Use Lanlan to rebuild the website for [organization], a nonprofit that [what you do]. Our main audiences are [donors, volunteers, the people we serve]. Each of them should find what they need within one click of the homepage.

Add something new

Add an events page to my site with a sign-up form for each event, and show the next event on the homepage.

Your first message doesn't have to be good.

Lanlan will ask you questions. You'll say "more like this." It'll adjust. The back-and-forth is the whole point. Using Lanlan from Claude or another AI tool? These work there too.

Or watch one

See it in two minutes.

Lani edits a page, asks Lanlan for a bigger change, and starts a brand-new site from one sentence.

Real conversations

Or read the back-and-forth.

Typos, false starts, and "yeah but a little more" kept in. This is what it looks like when it works.

For your coaching practice

A consulting site that finally feels like you.

Lani had a consulting site that was fine, but it didn't feel like theirs. The rebuild kept the work and changed everything else.

Hi Claude, I want to build a coaching website for my business, Lani Marsden Coaching & Consulting. I serve diverse women and queer folks. I have a current Squarespace site so can pull content from that but I want to make it better. Here's what the home page looks like now, plus the about page, work with me page, and contact page. I like blue and green, love water. From Hawaii and LA. I want people to feel held and seen exactly as they are.

What a beautiful site to work from. Before I start building, a few quick questions.How much do you want to evolve the visual design? Refresh it: same vibe, more polishedWhich pages first? Give me your recommendations first

Here's what I'd polish before we build anything. On design: a warmer humanist type pairing, one accent color, soft teal or seafoam to bring in the Hawaii/water connection. Your coastal photography is gorgeous; I'd use it as textured overlays, not only backgrounds. On copy: the hero headline "Let Your Whole Self Shine" is lovely but a little passive. Name women and queer folks directly in the subhead so your people feel immediately seen. On pages: build Home first, then Work With Me. That's where conversions happen. Ready to go?

Love the design idea but also want to see what you'd recommend if you did a whole total redo from scratch. Copy recs, can we do those later actually? I want to think about them. Sounds good on starting with the home page.

Perfect. Let's focus on design for now and save copy for later. I'll build you two complete home page designs to compare: a polished refresh of your current direction, and a bold reimagining from scratch. Give me a moment.

Design first, copy when you're ready. You can change direction mid-conversation.

See lanimarsden.com →

For the place you love

An ode to the park down the street.

Will wanted a website for a small park in Berkeley he loves. He didn't tell Claude what to build, only how it should feel.

Help me design and create a new website for Willard Park in Berkeley CA. Make it a poetic ode to a wonderful respite and intergenerational gathering spot. Make it visual and whimsical. Think creatively on how best to honor this park.

Building a whimsical, poetic site honoring Willard Park. I'll start with original poetry (canopy, playground, benches, golden hour) and a soft-washed visual feel. Floating leaves, seasonal vignettes, a community visitors section. Want me to research the park's actual history and add real imagery, or keep this as a more abstract reverie?

This is a good start, but can you find imagery? Can you trace the history of the park? The surrounding area? Any fun facts or trivia? Notable people or events, references in pop culture? Build it on Lanlan.

Pulled it all in. The 1969 Vietnam-era renaming to "Ho Chi Minh Park," the Bastille Day march to People's Park with wire cutters baked into bread, the tear-gassing of Willard schoolchildren, the 1971 dedication, the 1982 naming for Frances Willard (suffragist, first woman in Statuary Hall), the 1990s volunteer renovation: 5,000 hours in 88 days. Live at willard-park.lanlan.site.

A poetic ode and a community archive. Not a business, not a service. Love for a place, made public.

See Willard Park →

For something you want to stick to

A bedtime tracker, with rewards.

An adult sticker chart. Two weeks earns a counter salad day trip. Thirty days earns the family a hot pot dinner.

I'm trying to adhere to an 11pm bedtime every night. Think of this as an adult sticker chart. If I go two weeks with one grace evening, I get a daytrip counter salad. If I go 30 days, the whole family gets to go to hai di lao hot pot.

Password protect it with a relevant easy to remember password. Make this stunningly beautiful, like that Chrome extension that was crazy popular, but all it did was tell the time in a beautiful background when opening a new tab.

The Momentum aesthetic: full-bleed nature photography, big elegant clock. One-tap check-in each night: moon (made it by 11) or star (grace night). Confetti when you log a moon. Reward progress bars track both milestones. Password: goodnight. Live at lights-out.lanlan.site.

Can you add an install banner?

Done. Frosted glass at the bottom of the screen. Add it to your iPhone home screen and it opens full-screen. No App Store, no review queue. Counter salad in 14.

A bedtime tracker that doubles as an iPhone home-screen app. Made for himself, not for sale.

See Lights Out →

For the family voice

A cookbook typed by the family.

124 recipes typed in the 1980s, photocopied, three-hole-punched, and mailed to relatives. Claude asks back instead of guessing.

I have the family cookbook on an old site I made. Can you pull in all the recipes and build it on Lanlan? I want it to feel like the original binder.

Found it: the family cookbook. 124 recipes, 8 categories. Before I build, three quick questions:Heirloom journal: handwritten serif, parchment, archivalModern editorial: clean & confidentWarm farmhouse: sage/cream, hand-drawn ornamentsBold & graphic: big type, color-blocked categoriesSearch & filter, random recipe button, print-friendly cards: all of the aboveMine: keep the voice, add an About pagePort the content as-is

Heirloom journal. All of the above. Mine, keep voice, add an About page.

Pulling in all 124 recipes now. Parchment background, handwritten display serif, warm ochre accents. Categories in the table of contents the way the original binder did them, and a "random page" button. Family voice preserved exactly as written. Live at chester-vestal-cookbook.lanlan.site.

A binder a family typed in the 1980s, now searchable and online. The family voice, exactly as written.

See the cookbook →

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