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by wtfdeveloper 27 days ago
haha! Fair point! We are three old school programmers and have no idea on design, so yes for the website ONLY, we let Claude designed for us...

If any designers come over to the comment section, we would love to hear from you! We'd love to improve our website with your advice.

On the other hand, the code, we started coding this more than one year ago and we have poured our souls on it.

If you can bare the AI obvious styling front page, I think you would like the framework
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ssalka 27 days ago
There are lots of skills available that enhance Claude's design capability, eg:

https://www.tasteskill.dev/

https://www.usehallmark.com/

https://layers.jamiemill.com/

https://impeccable.style/

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wtfdeveloper 27 days ago
Oh my god! Thanks so much! We are studying this immediately.
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cadamsdotcom 27 days ago
My main advice would be to get rid of anything extraneous in the site.

Animations should serve a purpose - for example, gamifying with a fireworks animation is useful if you think that communicates what you want about the product.

Engineers know that rainbow borders on boxes are tricksy to implement but a cinch for agents. So rainbow borders are a loud way to say “we didn’t pay close attention to what we were building when we built this” - or to be a bit more kind, “we shipped our first draft”.

It’s just like reading code. Why would you want any distractions?

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wtfdeveloper 27 days ago
THANKS!

Well, we are very experienced developers, which is code for.. we are old... Old as from the time where websites had banners moving across the page, so that might have influenced our choices.

But these suggestions are gold to us as we have no expertise on design, so thanks AGAIN

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cadamsdotcom 27 days ago
You’re welcome! Happy that it was helpful and not tooooo unkind..

Design can tickle different bits of your brain compared to code! Quite often I can’t pin down and name just what’s wrong (those with the vocab can, of course)

But if you can describe the feeling in the back of your mind to an agent you’re golden.

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conartist6 27 days ago
the feedback is actionable. Fix the styling. It looks awful, like it was made by a middle school student or something
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