Write good requests

frascati does what you write, so the clearer the request, the fewer tries it takes. Write the way you would brief a designer: what should change, where, and what it should look like afterwards.

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Say what, where and how it should be

  • Where: the page and the part of it, like “the top of the home page” or “the price list on Services”. Or point at it, see below.
  • What: the change itself, with the real content. Give the prices, the opening hours, the names. frascati never makes up facts: what it does not know appears as a [placeholder] in square brackets.
  • How it should be afterwards: the result you want, not how to build it. “Calmer, with more space and one big photo” works better than “change the padding”.
  • What stays: say it when something must not change, like “keep the photo” or “only the text, not the layout”.

One topic per message gives the best results. Several small things can go into one message as a list; large changes go better one after the other, so you can check each one in the preview.

Examples

Make it nicer

Write
Make the top of the home page calmer: one big photo of our bread, the heading and one button “Order a cake”.

Change the colors

Write
Use the dark green of our logo as the main color and keep the background white.

Add my prices

Write
Add a price list under Cakes: birthday cake 20 cm CHF 48, 26 cm CHF 64, six cupcakes CHF 21.

Add booking

Write
Add table reservations for up to 8 people, Tuesday to Saturday from 18 to 23.

The phone version is broken

Write
On the phone, the menu button covers the logo. Move the logo to the left. (With a screenshot of that spot.)

Write something about us

Write
Add a short About section: family business since 1962, three bakers, flour from the mill in the next village.

Point at things instead of describing them

Select
Click an element in the preview, like a heading, a button or a photo. Change with AI makes your next message about exactly that element, so “make this bigger” is enough. For a text, Edit text changes the words right in the preview, without credits.
Screenshot
Drag over a part of the preview and write what should change there. A message can hold several screenshots, each with its own note.
Images
Add your logo or your own photos with the image button, or paste them. Say where each one goes, like “this photo at the top of the home page”.
Dictate
The microphone in the chat box turns what you say into text. Handy for long descriptions.

Plan first for bigger changes

For a new page, a new part like a shop or bookings, or a change across the whole website, choose Plan in the menu next to the chat's send button, where it says Build. frascati then changes nothing yet:

  1. It asks what it needs to know. Pick an answer or write your own, then click Continue. Skip the questions makes the plan with sensible assumptions.

  2. It shows a plan with its steps. Untick steps you do not want, or click Change the plan and say what should be different.

  3. Build this plan carries it out, or only the steps still ticked.

Plan also answers questions about your website without touching it, like “What would you improve on the home page?”. A question uses 0.1 to 0.5 credits.

Rules for every change

What should always hold goes into Instructions for the AI in the project menu (click the project's name at the top left), up to 4,000 characters. frascati follows them in every change, so you do not repeat them in each message.

Example
“Address visitors formally. Keep the green of our logo. We have been a family business since 1962. Never show prices for weddings, only “on request”.”

Good for how to address visitors, colors and fonts that must stay, facts about your business and words to avoid.

When the result is not right

  • Say what is wrong and how it should be instead: “The heading is too long, at most five words” works better than “not like that”.
  • Undo under the latest answer takes the change back, and Try again asks for it once more. Clearer wording often helps more than trying again.
  • Versions in the project menu lists every build with what it changed. Restore brings back an earlier one, and the later versions stay.
  • After each answer, frascati suggests next steps you can click. They are ideas, not a to-do list.
  • If the preview shows an error, Fix it in the bar below the preview repairs it, free up to 10 times a day.

What requests cost

Most changes use less than 1 credit; a large change across many pages uses more. Typing a text with Edit text and fixing errors with Fix it use none. See Plans and credits.

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