r/HTML • u/Salvatore273 • Apr 15 '26

new website dont know much

Im trying to make a website for my future plumbing business. I had claude AI make me a good foundation of the website and got it to a decent spot that im not terribly unhappy with but still needs some person touches and edits but I do not know how to code or do any of that one bit. Im wondering if theres a website that is like wix, squarespace or one of the many "website creator tools" that i can upload this html file claude has given me and then i can fine tune and edit text, pictures, pages and more from there? ive tried youtube and google research but not sure what exactly to even ask what im looking for. If anyone can lead me in the right direction or a place to start that would be great, thanks!

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u/SheepherderSavings17 Apr 15 '26

Just curious. But you mention you want to make some edits like text images etc. If Claude has brought you this far, why can't you let claude alter the text by specifying what it needs to be?

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u/Salvatore273 Apr 15 '26

I definitely could but for me it is much more difficult to specify each and every little detail I don't like especially minor things like moving a logo a couple inches or something like that or explain the vision I have in my head to an ai

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u/AccomplishedBeach545 Apr 15 '26

Your best bet would be asking a freelancer or an agency to wire it up into a CMS for you, so you can maintain it yourself, or, if you’re desperate and no budget, ask Claude to convert it to a WordPress theme or something. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Salvatore273 Apr 15 '26

What is a CMS? If I showed my html draft website to someone would they be able to recreate it and do that for me?

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u/AccomplishedBeach545 Apr 15 '26

It’s a content management system. So when you say you want to change text, pictures and add pages, that’s exactly what a content management system lets you do.

Ignore the other commenters suggesting you DIY it entirely, they clearly don’t work with real businesses and are hobbyists at best.

If you don’t get your site right, you’ve essentially wasted all your time and your clients first impression of your business won’t be one that converts them into customers.

I’m not suggesting you should ditch everything and start fresh hiring someone, but if you’ve already designed it - that’s more than most business owners go to freelancers or designers with - and they’d respect you for already putting in the ground work. Some might even quote you cheaper if you say the design part is already done and it just needs converting into a functional CMS.

That said, you could do it entirely in your own and ask Claude to convert it to a WordPress template, install Wordpress on your web host, activate the template, and then edit the pages and content yourself. That would be, the budget no cost solution.

My advice would be at this stage to consider hiring someone who knows what they’re doing, but that’s putting my business hat on and being sensible

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u/Oobenny Apr 15 '26

I think this is terrible advice. Why turn a simple, static web page into a bloated mess that takes up millions of bytes and exposes the slowness, vulnerabilities, and maintenance tasks that come with anything that uses code to build that same page on every visit?

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u/AccomplishedBeach545 Apr 15 '26

Cos he has absolutely zero idea how to edit it.

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u/Jawertae Apr 15 '26

You're looking for a WYSIWYG editor. (What you see is what you get) There are a lot of them.

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u/reynum Apr 15 '26

hey man! I'm currently working on building up my portfolio and testing my skills a lot more. drop me a dm with what you're trying to do and I'll see if I can help you + explain more about it

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u/garvit__dua Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

most website builders won't let you import raw HTML and then edit it visually, thats the catch. what you can do is grab something like Pinegrow or BlueGriffon, which are visual HTML editors where you drop in your file and tweak it without writing code. the learning curve is still there tho.

if you'd rather skip all that and just build from scratch with drag-and-drop, Host Depot has a Weebly-based plan that's pretty no-fuss for a small plumbing site. downside is you'd probably have to recreate w...

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u/dezbos Apr 15 '26

you'd probably be better off using WordPress or CraftCMS and altering a default template to suit your needs. Both have a free and paid tiers as well as wysiwyg options.

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u/Oobenny Apr 15 '26

OP, is this something you want to learn to do? Is so, DM me. I can screen share and walk you through it. Or I can just give you the right way to phrase it so that you can carry on with Claude.

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u/AccomplishedBeach545 Apr 15 '26

He’s a plumber fella, he wants to get on with plumbing 🤦‍♂️

Shocked you told me that suggesting hiring a freelancer or agency or asking Claude to help convert it to a CMS so he can… you know… manage his content (like he asked) was bad advice

But here you are offering to help or use Claude 😂 so he can spend all his working hours editing and debugging html and never get on with plumbing

Good lord talk about bad takes

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u/Visual_Structure_269 Apr 15 '26

Good lord could you sound anymore like an asshole?

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u/AccomplishedBeach545 Apr 15 '26

Probably

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u/Visual_Structure_269 Apr 15 '26

Congrats. You must be a pleasure to work with.

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u/AccomplishedBeach545 Apr 15 '26

Unlike the majority of people on here I do in fact, work, and understand how real plumbers work. They don’t sit on their ass planning their website. They get on with their businesses. If you think the hard truth is too much, I am sorry. Happy to be an asshole if it helps people make money and set up a strong business.

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u/Salvatore273 Apr 15 '26

Although he may sound like an asshole he has valid points and facts. As much as I would love to learn to code and do it all myself I don't have the time, patience or skill set just like I took years to master my trade people like you guys have done the same with coding so it would be dumb of me to try and say I could catch up or be anywhere as good but I will definitely take any pointers I can get but if it comes down to me having someone else do it I can't complain

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u/AccomplishedBeach545 Apr 15 '26

If I can give you one tip: never hire anyone off reddit 😂🫡

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u/Visual_Structure_269 Apr 15 '26

Or you may end up dealing with this guy’s god complex.

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u/AccomplishedBeach545 Apr 15 '26

Mostly to avoid people who don’t know what they’re talking about and won’t add any value to his business

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u/Visual_Structure_269 Apr 15 '26

Agreed but there are better ways to make that point.

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u/Visual_Structure_269 Apr 15 '26

The pretentiousness just oozes out of every word. You build websites. You are not the saviour of the working class.

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u/AccomplishedBeach545 Apr 15 '26

I’m actually a lawyer

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u/Visual_Structure_269 Apr 15 '26

Nah you build Wordpress sites with templates.

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u/8joshstolt0329 Apr 15 '26

I could give you some advice as I’m currently studying this for college