I Built a Client Website + Custom CMS Dashboard in Claude Code

By Lukas Margerie

Categories: Design, Product

Summary

Claude Code can generate production-ready websites with custom CMS dashboards in a single prompt, enabling solo builders to deliver client projects with live analytics and SEO upsells—turning freelancers into agency-level operators without hiring.

Key Takeaways

  1. Start with a structured prompt that includes client constraints (light mode, sans serif fonts, no gradients), design references, and asset reuse to get polished landing pages in one generation cycle instead of multiple iterations.
  2. Build custom CMS dashboards alongside client websites to enable non-technical clients to manage content and assets independently, creating recurring upsell opportunities for SEO services and ongoing support.
  3. Use component libraries like Untitled UI integrated directly into Claude Code to maintain design consistency and speed up builds—copy-paste component libraries into your prompts for faster production.
  4. Leverage AI image generation and redesign workflows by taking screenshots of your designs and feeding them into ChatGPT for logo redesigns and visual refinements, creating multiple design variants in parallel branches.
  5. Create a standardized handoff workflow including live domain setup, tracking analytics integration, and CMS training documentation—positioning yourself to manage multiple client sites simultaneously with minimal ongoing maintenance.

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Transcript Excerpt

Everyone, so in today's video I'm going to be showing you guys how to design, build, host, and hand off a website to a client that you built in Cloud Code. And this is going to include a custom CMS that you've built for them to manage their assets and their content, live domain with live tracking analytics. I'm going to show you how you can build and manage your own custom CMS system where you or your client can manage the assets of the project or the content, and at the end show you a special w...