Lanlan.docs

Your first site

From zero to a live website in about ten minutes.

What you need

  • A Claude account — free or paid both work.

  • About ten minutes.

  • A rough idea of what you want — even one sentence is enough.

Step 1: Add Lanlan to Claude

Lanlan plugs into Claude as a connector — a one-click setup. No installs, no command line, no code editor.

If you've never added a connector before, follow Add Lanlan to Claude (about a minute). Once it's added, every Lanlan-related thing you ask Claude — "build a page," "change the colors," "add a contact form" — goes through Lanlan automatically.

Step 2: Tell Claude what you want

You're briefing a designer, not filling out a form. The clearer the brief, the closer the first draft will be — but anything you leave out, Claude will ask about.

A good first message names the business and the rough vibe:

  • "Build me a portfolio site for my landscape photography. Quiet, dark, lots of white space."

  • "Build a one-page site for my dog-walking business in West Oakland. Warm, friendly, easy to read."

  • "I run a small bookkeeping practice. I want a clean professional site with a contact form on the front page."

Don't worry about getting it perfect. Step 4 is for changes.

Step 3: Answer a few questions as Claude builds

Claude usually asks two or three short questions while building — colors, fonts, what to put in the hero, that kind of thing. Each answer takes a sentence.

When the first draft lands, your site is already live at your-name.lanlan.site. Open it in another tab and look around. Nothing ships to a real domain (like your-business.com) until you connect one yourself — that's a separate step, later.

Step 4: Change anything, anytime

The site you have now is a starting point. Tell Claude what to change and it changes — usually live within a few seconds.

  • "Make the headline shorter and the photos bigger."

  • "Move the contact form to its own page."

  • "Try a warmer cream background instead of pure white."

  • "Replace the headshot with the photo I'm about to send."

Keep going until you're happy. When you stop making changes, you're done.

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If you get stuck

Ask Claude. "I can't figure out how to…" almost always gets you unstuck. For anything Claude can't help with, email support.