Style it

Your site has structure. Now let's make it look good.

Apply a theme and polish

Ask your AI:

Replace the homepage with a "Hi, I'm Alex" hero section and a short tagline about freelance photography. Update the site theme to use dark mode. Add consistent spacing between sections, a footer that says "Built by Alex" on every page, and make the whole site look clean and professional. Make sure it looks good on mobile too.

Depending on your AI tool, you might see a TODO list as it works through each part of the prompt.

Once it's done, take a look at the result.

The homepage now has a hero section instead of template placeholder. The whole site should feel more polished — dark background, consistent spacing, a footer on every page.

Fix what's wrong

Here's the thing — the AI's output probably isn't perfect. Maybe the spacing feels off. Maybe the text is hard to read against the background. Maybe something looks broken on mobile.

That's normal. This is the most important skill in AI-directed development: look at the result, spot what's wrong, and tell the AI to fix it.

Try it. Look at your site carefully — and try narrowing the browser window to see how it looks on mobile. Give the AI a specific correction. Describe the problem, not the solution. Let the AI figure out the fix.

The real skill

You'll do this loop constantly: prompt → review → correct. The AI writes code fast, but it's not looking at your screen. You are. Your job is to be the quality check — to spot what's off and steer it toward what you want.

This gets easier with practice. You'll start to notice patterns in what the AI gets wrong, and your corrective prompts will get sharper.