Whether you’re starting your first website or looking to revamp your existing site to something slicker, simpler and more budget-friendly, Crazy Domains has harnessed the power of AI to do the heavy lifting for you. Their AI website builder lets you build websites in minutes – so is it as good as it sounds?

Every business needs a website. Whether you’re a freelancer or run a mini retail empire, your website is your digital shopfront where customers can get to know, like and trust you – and of course buy your goods or services.

Until recently, building or upgrading a website was super expensive: we’re talking minimum of a few 100 dollars, up to 10s of 1000s of dollars. Not anymore.

Crazy Domains, the long-running domain registration and web hosting company, has launched what could be the easiest website builder for small businesses – powered by AI. We took it for a test drive.

The AI onboarding process

With AI, it all starts with a prompt. Crazy Domains’ AI Website Builder keeps it simple: just answer three easy questions:

1. What’s your site about?
2. What’s it called?
3. What makes you unique?

We dreamed up ‘Plantastic Bakes’, a vegan bakery, for our test run.

If you’re not happy with what you wrote in the prompt, you can simply press ‘Start Over’. Otherwise, this is where the magic happens.

Click ‘Presto, ready to generate your site’ and your home page is built for you! This literally took three seconds. Pretty snazzy, right?

Is it perfect and ready to be your final site? No, but it’s a brilliant start.

Website design made easy

Now onto the fun part – customising! Not thrilled with the colours the AI chose? Just click on ‘Theme’ and ‘Colours’ to mix it up.

Need more pages or want to add a video, contact form, menu or other elements? The handy sidebar’s your friend. Everything’s clearly labelled so you can play around to your heart’s content.

Your site design is saved automatically. Made a mistake and don’t like the red and purple combo after all? Simply click the ‘undo’ arrow at the top right to keep going back to where you’re happy. Gone back too far? There’s a ‘redo’ arrow to go forward.

SEO-friendly copywriting: Done for you

Whether you want persuasive sales copy or informative blog posts, the AI Text Writer plugin will generate SEO-friendly words that you can tweak as you see fit.

In our test, we focused on a small section of the site describing one of the reasons customers should choose our vegan bakery Plantastic Bakes. This is the original copy it created when it built the home page:

Then we gave it a simple prompt: ‘Say why this is important.’

The result:

Now, this copy isn’t perfect, but again it gives us something to work with and to tweak. Also, that was a very basic prompt. You can be a lot more specific in your prompt – for example, reminding it to use friendly, less formal language – to get a better result.

Want to sell stuff? Create your online store

Whether you’ve got three or 300 products to sell, you just click on ‘Online Store’ from the sidebar where you can add your company information, preferred currency, tax and shipping details and of course your products.

There’s a good number of payment processors to choose from including Stripe, Paypal and Square – and no monthly fees to pay to a separate e-commerce platform.

More features to explore

Blogging tools

We’ve already seen how the AI Text Writer plugin can help with writing blogs. But first you have to create a blog, which is super simple to do here. On the sidebar, just click the ‘B’ button to ‘enable blog’ and add posts.

Backend and legals

The website builder also generates a Privacy and Cookies Policy page with text that you can tweak. You can also add a banner advising visitors how you use cookies for website traffic analysis.

Backend necessities such as verifying your site with Google, adding code snippets for Google Tags and Google Analytics are included too.

Switch between views

Curious how your site looks on different gadgets? Use the icons at the top to toggle between desktop, tablet, and phone views, and hit ‘Preview’ to see how visitors see your site.

Make your site live: Time to publish

When you’re ready to go live, you’ll need a domain name. Crazy Domains offers domain name registration, site hosting, and building – a one-stop shop. Just click ‘Publish’ and you’re live.

The verdict

Crazy Domains’ AI Website Builder is an extremely easy option for the most time-poor small businesses.

The interface is clear and intuitive and a breeze to use – no need to even see a snippet of code. And the fact that it’s part of the company’s suite of products that includes domain names, web hosting, email solutions and more makes Crazy Domains a simple, cost-effective and scalable solution for your business needs.

SPECIAL OFFER: Get Crazy Domains’ AI Website Builder for just $0.99 (yep, that’s under a dollar!) for the 3 Months – Website Only plan.

This article is brought to you by Business Builders in partnership with Crazy Domains.

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