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Use an existing site as a reference

Three things Lanlan can do with any public website — read the design, copy the images, take a screenshot. Use them alone or together.

Whether you're moving an old site to Lanlan, looking at a competitor for inspiration, or researching what other businesses in your space do well, Lanlan can reach into any public website three ways. Just tell Claude what you want.

Three things Lanlan can do with any public website

  1. Read the design. Pulls colors, fonts, layout structure, and meta tags. Used as a starting point for a fresh build, or as a reference Claude can match. Fast.
  2. Copy the images. Renders the page in a real browser and harvests every image — logos, photos, backgrounds, social-share previews. Files are saved to your Lanlan site so they serve from your domain instead of the original. Includes lazy-loaded images that only appear after scrolling.
  3. Take a screenshot. A full-page snapshot of how the site looks today. Claude can show it to you while you talk through what to keep, change, or get rid of. Useful when words alone don't capture the feel of a layout.

Common combinations

  • You're migrating an old site to Lanlan. All three: read the design, copy the images, take a screenshot for reference. Then rebuild the pages with Claude in conversation — text content gets pasted in or rewritten as you go.
  • You want a competitor's vibe but your own everything else. Read the design and take a screenshot. No images copied (you'd be using your own).
  • You just want the photos. Copy the images. Done in a single step.
  • You're researching three sites in your industry. Take a screenshot of each. Maybe read the design on the one you like best. Talk through what works.
  • You want Claude to understand a reference URL someone sent you. Read the design and take a screenshot. Claude will describe what it sees and ask what to do with it.

How to ask

In plain language. Examples that work:

  • "I'm moving my site from roses-flowers.com to Lanlan. Pull everything in — design, images, take a screenshot — and let's rebuild."
  • "My competitor at example.com has a layout I like. Take a look and use it as a reference for my new home page."
  • "Save reference screenshots from these three flower-shop sites. I want to talk through what each one does well."
  • "Just grab all the photos from my old portfolio at oldsite.com — I'll wire them in myself."

What doesn't come over

None of the three things touches:

  • Text content. Headlines, body copy, blog posts — you'll paste these in or rewrite them as Claude rebuilds. (For long blog migrations: export your old posts as a CSV and use collection import for a one-shot bulk add.)
  • Custom code or interactivity. Anything that depended on JavaScript, server-side rendering, or a backend (logged-in users, search bars, payment flows) needs to be rebuilt using Lanlan's own tools.
  • Backend forms. Your old site's contact-form submissions stay where they were. Add a fresh form on the new site — see Add a contact form.
  • Fonts as files. The font names are read so Claude can match them, but font files aren't copied. Most common fonts are available through Google Fonts; Claude wires them up automatically.

When it doesn't work cleanly

A few site types are hard to read or copy from:

  • Sites that need a login to view. If the homepage shows a login wall, Lanlan can't get past it. Same for password-protected pages.
  • Sites that load images only after JavaScript runs heavily. Lanlan waits a couple of seconds and scrolls the page to trigger lazy loading, but some sites need actual interaction (clicking a tab, opening a modal) before images appear. Those don't get pulled.
  • Sites that block external requests. Some hosts add headers that prevent fetching the page from a different server. Lanlan tells Claude which URLs were blocked so you know what's missing.

In any of those cases, Claude will tell you what was missed and you can manually upload the images that didn't make it — see Add images and media.

What to try next

If you get stuck

Ask Claude. "I can't figure out how to…" almost always gets you unstuck. For anything Claude can't help with, email support.