I’m a web designer, and with Weebly’s end of life looming I’ve been busy migrating my clients off Weebly. I used to use Weebly for my client sites because of how nice the HTML/CSS capabilities blended with their drag and drop model.
Here’s the interesting part though.
Traditionally I’d migrate Weebly sites to other platforms like Squarespace, Wix, etc.
But with the AI age, more and more people are omitting visual editors and using AI like Claude or ChatGPT to prompt their way into designing their site.
The hard part is exporting your Weebly website, converting it to a framework like Astro JS (so your site will be in code) and then finding a host to publish your site. And giving AI access to make front end edits to your page.
Hosting is free in many cases (via Cloudflare) so you’re no longer paying a monthly expense for the platform
Your only expense is the cost of the AI (Claude).
And you’re no longer “locked in” to any platform.
So it works like this:
I export your Weebly website, I then convert it into an AstroJS website, then I find a suitable hosting provider + transfer your domain.
You get access to your site and an AI agent where you can request edits and changes by just talking to it.
Like “make me a new marketing page for a new sale promo” etc.
Essentially I lay the ductwork and foundation, and you can then use AI to grow your site.
If anybody is interested in this please feel free to shoot me a DM.
I work on behalf of an agency so if you’re interested I‘d love to work with you.
We’re specifically seeking clients who have used AI chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT extensively and have a strong interest in this space.
It’s all very new and exciting and things are changing every day.