Guides

Step by step walkthroughs for common prompting jobs.

• Add one feature without breaking things

  Difficulty: intermediate

  How to ask for something new on a site that already works.

  add-a-feature

• Ask for a site people can actually use

  Difficulty: intermediate

  Accessibility is a set of requirements, not a style. Ask for it plainly.

  improve-accessibility

• Ask for a visual style

  Difficulty: beginner

  How to describe a look without using words that mean nothing.

  choose-visual-style

• Ask for the words

  Difficulty: beginner

  How to get copy that sounds like you and not like a brochure.

  write-copy

• Change a website you already have

  Difficulty: beginner

  How to ask for a change without breaking the parts that work.

  change-the-designadd-a-feature

• Get ready to put it online

  Difficulty: intermediate

  The checks worth making before anyone else sees the site.

  prepare-to-launch

• How to describe a homepage

  Difficulty: beginner

  Work top to bottom and name each section, its job, and its content.

  restaurantlocal-business

• Make it work on phones

  Difficulty: beginner

  Most of your visitors are on a phone. Say so, because it is not assumed.

  make-it-mobile-friendly

• Start a website from nothing

  Difficulty: beginner

  What to do when you have an idea and a blank page.

  start-from-scratch

• What every good prompt includes

  Difficulty: beginner

  The ten things to say, in the order that stops an agent guessing.

  start-from-scratch