How to Use AI to Create Your Own Website
Generative AI tools are now finding applications in everything from movie making to home renovations , and another task these powerful models can take on is website design. You don’t have to write a single line of HTML code or even know what HTML is to publish something elegant and shiny on the Internet.
The idea is the same as when creating text or images: you enter a hint and the AI works its magic to create something according to your instructions. You can specify the purpose of your website and its visual style, as well as the individual elements (such as images and menus) that you want to place on the page.
Now you’ll find that AI is popping up in many different website building services, and I’ve selected three to take a look at what’s possible and what’s not possible if you let AI build your website for you. .
Keep in mind that there is another way to build websites with AI: have your AI chatbot generate HTML code. This will take more time and effort, and you may have to deal with some mistakes and inconsistencies along the way, but it will give you more control over the appearance of your final site.
Vicks
Wix’s AI-powered website builder gets to work as soon as you open an account (though you have the option to build your website using more traditional methods if you prefer). It takes the form of a series of questions about the site you want to create: the name of the site, the content it will display, the various features you need, and any specific messages you need to convey.
It’s not unlike talking to ChatGPT or Gemini, and after each request the AI can rephrase the question or give you some help answering it (essentially telling you what to say). The work won’t take long, and you’ll feel like you’re talking to a real web designer.
Once you’re done with the initial conversation, you can continue to use generative AI to create text and images for your website pages, as well as specify the layout and theme: just describe what you want to see, and Wix will do its best. Each time a website’s look and feel is created, you can start over, make smaller changes, or accept the design and move on.
The AI websites that Wix creates are a bit like the AI text and images we’re now used to: quite polished, but rather generic and bland. You don’t have much control over the details, and it can sometimes be difficult to place elements in the places you want, although you can of course use the AI-generated pages as a start and then add your own changes. Wix and its AI tools are free to use, but paid plans are available (starting at $17 per month).
Creator
Framer offers a variety of advanced website building tools, as well as AI components, so it’s a good option if you want to outsource some of the website building work to AI, but still be able to do a lot of the manual work. too much. You can use AI to create everything from slogans to entire pages.
All you need is a prompt like “tech writer website page, clean and minimalist with space for a large header image” and it immediately gives you something quite useful and professional. Any AI-generated element can be regenerated from the same hint if necessary, and can also be edited manually.
The AI can also suggest suitable color combinations for your site, and I love how you can quickly switch between different color schemes and font styles to instantly change the look of your site. Artificial intelligence image generation doesn’t exist yet, so you’ll have to bring your own or use stock images through the site.
The AI built into Framer can create stunning websites in seconds, and overall the suggestions seem to perform well. The end results may lack originality and inspiration, but this is where manual editing tools come in and are comprehensive. You can start for free, and paid plans start at $5 per month.
Hostinger
Sign up for Hostinger and you’ll get the chance to build your entire website using just a site type, a site style (like “minimal” or “bold”) and a text prompt: after that, you’ll get a set of pages. based on this tip. The more specific you are, the better, and we were able to get decent results from just a few lines of text, although the results looked the same as many existing websites (which is the nature of AI, really).
When you get into the details of editing your website, there’s an AI-powered text writer that works just like ChatGPT or Google Gemini: you provide a hint and Hostinger provides the text. The quality here isn’t quite up to par with the best AI chatbots, so you might want to generate your words somewhere else and paste them.
Hostinger’s AI capabilities extend to images and logos as well as entire web pages, so it’s about the most fully featured option we’ve seen in terms of built-in AI. It’s all easy to use, although, as always with AI suggestions, you may find that your written instructions aren’t enough to get you exactly what you want.
Unfortunately, you can’t use Hostinger for free: prices start at $11.99 per month, although you often get a discount for the first few months, and it also comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. You’re also limited in the number of AI images you can create for free, and you may need to start paying for additional credits if you need a lot of AI-generated images.