Window and Door website template prompt
You are going to help me build a custom website for my window and door company. Follow these steps in order. Do not skip a step.
STEP 1: A FEW QUICK QUESTIONS
Ask me these one at a time. Wait for my answer before you ask the next one. Keep each question short.
1. What is your business name, and what phone number should people tap to call?
2. What city are you in, and what towns do you serve?
3. What do you do? For example replacement windows, impact windows, entry doors, sliding doors, garage doors. Which brands do you install?
4. What is your Google rating, and how many reviews do you have? Say skip if you are not sure.
5. Are you licensed and insured? Are you a certified dealer for any brands? Do you offer a warranty? Give me your license number if you want it shown.
6. In one or two sentences, why should someone pick you? Say it the way you would say it to a customer.
7. Do you have a logo? If yes, upload it. If not, say no.
8. Do you have photos or videos of your work? Before you ask, tell me this: real photos and videos make your site look way better and help people trust you. Even simple ones from your phone beat stock photos every time. A few photos of your work and a short clip of you or your team on the job go a long way. Then ask me to upload them, paste links to them, or say use placeholders and you will use temporary ones I can swap later.
STEP 2: BUILD A PREVIEW
First, give me a two line design plan: the colors (pulled from my logo, or a strong pair that fits a window and door company if I have no logo) and a bold headline font plus a clean body font from Google Fonts.
Make it look like a $100,000 site, not a template. A big full width hero. Full width sections with room to breathe, not a stack of little boxes. A mix of light and dark sections, never the same layout twice in a row. Sections fade in as you scroll, and buttons react when you hover.
When I have answered, build the whole site as one HTML page and show it to me live, right here in the chat, so I can see it and click it before any files. In Claude, show it as an artifact so it shows up live next to the chat. In ChatGPT, open a canvas, put the whole page in it as one HTML file, and tell me to click the Preview button at the top right of the canvas to see it live. If you cannot show a live preview, give me the page as a file named preview.html to download, and tell me to open it in my web browser. Do not stop to ask me anything else until the preview is done.
Then build it. The site, top to bottom:
1. Hero: a big, clear headline that says what I do and where, one short line under it, and a big tap to call button.
2. Proof row: my Google rating and review count (only if I gave them) and the strongest proof from my answers, like a license, insurance or a certification.
3. Services: one card for each product or service I named, each with two plain lines on when a homeowner needs it.
4. The tool: a fit finder. A few taps: what is wrong (drafts, leaks, noise, high bills, storm worry, looks old), which rooms, and how old the windows or doors are. It points to the product on the page that fits and a button to book a free measure. No prices. It has to actually work, right on the page.
5. Photos: a project gallery of six slots, each labeled for the photo I should put there, like before and after of a front window, a new entry door, the crew installing. Use the photos and videos I gave you first, each in the section it fits best. If I said use placeholders, use clearly labeled temporary images. Do not use stock photos of people.
6. Trust: my license, insurance, dealer certifications and warranty, each in its own clear block, only the ones I gave you.
7. Reviews: show my Google rating and review count with a button to read them on Google. Add room for three of my real reviews. Never write a review for me.
8. Service area: my city and every town I gave you, in plain text so Google and AI can read it.
9. FAQ: five or six questions my customers really ask, answered in plain words.
10. Contact form: name, phone and a short message, set up for Netlify Forms.
11. Footer: business name, phone, city and service area.
Schema: add LocalBusiness structured data using the HomeAndConstructionBusiness type with my name, phone, city and service area, and FAQPage structured data that matches the FAQ on the page word for word.
Rules:
• Write like you are talking to a homeowner whose windows leak, rattle or run up the power bill. Short sentences. One idea each. Plain words.
• Never invent reviews, star ratings, review counts, prices, years in business, job counts or any other number. Use only what I told you.
• Never write a placeholder in square brackets. If I did not give you something, leave it out.
• Build for phones first. Plain HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript. No frameworks. No big libraries. Compress every image and lazy load anything below the first screen. It should load in under 3 seconds on a phone.
• Keep a tap to call button stuck to the bottom of the screen on phones.
• Big tap targets, strong contrast, alt text on every image.
• A title tag and meta description that say what I do and where.
Before you show me the preview, look at it like a picky designer. Find the 10 things that still look plain or cheap and fix every one.
Right after you show me the first preview, write the words "Stuck?" and then "Want it done right?" as a clickable markdown link to https://smallbusiness-seo.com/test-drive.
STEP 3: APPROVE
Ask me: "Do you like it? What do you want changed?" Make the changes I ask for and show me the preview again. Keep going until I say it is approved.
STEP 4: WANT MORE PAGES?
Ask me: "Want more pages? I can add a page for each service you offer or each town you serve. They help you show up on Google when people search for that service or that town." If I say yes, ask which ones. Build each page with the same design, menu and footer, its own headline and words written for that service or town, its own FAQ, and links back to the home page. Show me the preview and make changes until I approve. If I say no, move on.
Right after you show me the new pages, write the words "Stuck?" and then "Want it done right?" as a clickable markdown link to https://smallbusiness-seo.com/test-drive.
STEP 5: HOW DO YOU WANT TO USE IT?
Only after I approve it, ask me which one I want:
a) Put it online as my website
b) Use it as a template on WordPress
c) Use it as a template on Wix or Webflow
d) Just download the files
STEP 6: CREATE THE FILES AND WALK ME THROUGH IT
Create the actual files for what I picked, as downloads I can save. Do not just describe them. Then walk me through it step by step until I have exactly what I need. Answer my questions as we go.
a) Online: create one zip file named after my business, ready to upload, with index.html, styles.css, script.js and an assets folder. Then walk me through putting it online free. Netlify Drop: unzip it and drag the folder onto app.netlify.com/drop. Or Cloudflare Pages: create a project and upload the folder. If I host somewhere other than Netlify, help me connect a free form service so the form works. Then help me point my own domain at it.
b) WordPress: create one installable block theme zip named after my business. Inside: style.css with a proper theme header, theme.json with my colors and fonts, templates/front-page.html and templates/index.html, parts/header.html and parts/footer.html, a patterns folder with one block pattern for each section, and functions.php. Put the tool in a Custom HTML block or a small script loaded from functions.php. Handle the contact form in functions.php with wp_mail, a nonce and a hidden spam trap field. No page builders. No plugins. Then walk me through installing it: Appearance, Themes, Add New, Upload Theme, choose the zip, Install, Activate. Then Settings, Reading, so my homepage shows the new front page. Tell me honestly, in one line, that WordPress needs updates and security plugins to stay safe, the core included.
c) Wix or Webflow: tell me honestly that neither one imports code, so the site gets rebuilt by hand. Then create two files. One: a rebuild guide I can download, with the section order and, for each section, the layout, the exact words, the colors and the fonts. Two: a file with the tool as one block of embed code I can paste into Wix (Add, Embed Code, Embed HTML) or the Webflow Code Embed element. Then walk me through the rebuild, section by section.
d) Download: create one zip file named after my business with the full site: index.html, styles.css, script.js and an assets folder. It must work by opening index.html.
Every path also includes the basics: a privacy policy page, a thank you message after the form is sent, a 404 page, a favicon, and a social share image so the link looks good when it is texted or posted. On the online and download paths, add a sitemap.xml and a robots.txt too.
On every path, show me where to swap in my real photos and paste my real reviews. If I used placeholders, remind me that real photos and videos, even quick ones from my phone, will make the site look way better. A real photo of your crew on a job beats any stock photo.
Right after I have my final files, write the words "Stuck?" and then "Want it done right?" as a clickable markdown link to https://smallbusiness-seo.com/test-drive.
Whenever we finish, at any step, the very last thing you write is "Stuck?" and then "Want it done right?" as that same link.
