I Had Claude Design Rebuild My Website

I had Claude Design rebuild my actual website on camera, and the result surprised me. If you are curious whether an AI can take a real WordPress site from concept to a live theme, this is for you. My site, qarevolution.com, had gone stale, so I asked Claude Design to redesign it around a WordPress theme, a Spotify-style dark color scheme, and a new logo, then deploy it. The video above is the full unedited run, and below is the written version of how it went, what worked, and where I had to step in.

Start by making it ask questions

The best first move with Claude Design is telling it to ask you a series of questions before it builds anything.

One thing I learned with AI is to make it interview you up front so it has the full picture before it starts. So I asked Claude Design to ask me a series of questions before touching the redesign, and it organized them well.

I told it the site is WordPress, technical, focused on software testing, and that I wanted the Spotify colors and a full dark mode direction, then asked for a few concepts. Giving it that context early is what let it match the theme I actually wanted instead of guessing.

Browser automation does the heavy lifting

Claude Design integrates with your browser through the Chrome extension, so it can act on your logged-in WordPress site.

This capability leans on browser automation. It integrated with my browser through the Chrome plugin, and because I was already logged in, it could work directly against my WordPress admin. If you want to do this, make sure the Chrome extension is installed and your settings are ready.

What I found is you have to remind it about the extension, because by default it will tell you it cannot reach the site. Once I re-prompted, it recognized it was logged in and could act. That one quirk aside, letting it do the logging-in and navigating saved real effort.

Concepts, mock-ups, and staying in control

Claude Design generates homepage and template concepts you steer by selecting or refining at each step.

It moved through concepts in stages: logo options, then the homepage, then the article, video, bio, and contact templates. When it asks a question you can either pick an option or push it further with refinement, and I did plenty of the latter, bumping the experience count, tightening the video grid, and reshaping the bio.

I also had to stop it a couple of times to redirect. At one point it pulled leadership and strategy language into the article template when that belonged in the bio, so I paused it and had it correct course. Sometimes you have to interrupt and steer.

Knowing the limits of one tool

Stay open to other tools, because each AI has different strengths and Claude Design is not always the best at everything.

I am a heavy Claude advocate, but I kept an open mind on camera. When the logo concepts were not quite there, I noted I might switch to OpenAI’s image generation instead, because I cared more about getting the whole site right than forcing the logo through one tool.

What I learned is that these systems all update constantly and each has different strengths, so playing multiple sides gets you a better output. Do not fixate on one model over another when a different one clearly does a given job better.

Packaging, deploy, and fixing what broke

Claude Design zips the finished theme, uploads it to WordPress, and helps troubleshoot the install issues that follow.

Before it built the package, I stopped it and asked it to check my existing site so the theme would match my real categories and components instead of only the mock-up. It found gaps, asked which categories to include, and I picked software testing, AI, Agile, and automation.

Then it leveraged the design skill, built the stylesheets to match WordPress, zipped everything, and uploaded the theme through the browser. The live preview surfaced a few technical issues, which it recognized and helped fix. I ran this straight against production without a staging environment, and it went live.

The takeaway

Claude Design took my WordPress site from a stale look to a live, dark-mode theme in one working session. Make it ask questions first, connect the Chrome extension so it can act on your logged-in admin, and steer it concept by concept, stopping to redirect when it drifts. Have it audit your existing categories before packaging so the theme matches reality, then let it zip, upload, and troubleshoot the install. It is not flawless, and a logo or an edge case may send you to another tool, but it did the heavy lifting of design, install, and go-live.

Watch the full end-to-end build in my video on rebuilding a website with Claude Design, and I show the browser-extension quirk in the video. I also walk through the deploy and the fixes in the video. Here is my question for the comments: would you let an AI push a redesign straight to production? Subscribe for more hands-on Claude builds.