Non-coder doctor here — rebuilt my department's website (dead for 2 years) with Claude + Claude Design over a weekend. ~14x the traffic 3 months on.

I'm a neuroanesthesiologist, not a developer. My brain does airways and spine surgery, not CSS. So this is a "what Claude let a non-coder actually ship" post, not a flex.

Background: my hospital department had a fellowship website that had been dead for ~2 years. Outdated info, roughly 8 visitors a month. My HOD asked me to fix it. The normal route — brief a web dev, wait weeks, get a generic template — felt like more friction than it was worth, so I tried building it myself.

How I did it: Claude + Claude Design. I'm not writing code or reading it. I brought the actual content — curriculum structure, the medical context, what the program is, the look I wanted (dark, clean) — and Claude handled the HTML/CSS, the responsive layout, and the iteration. It's a landing page, not a complex app, so I'm not overselling the difficulty. But the part that used to be impossible for me — turning a vision into a live, decent-looking site without a middleman — is the part that worked.

What was useful vs. what wasn't:

• Describing the outcome I wanted ("make this section read like a prospectus, not a brochure") worked far better than trying to describe layout.
• Where I had clear domain content, it flew. Where I was vague, I got generic output — the bottleneck was my own clarity, not the tool.

Results, 3 months in:

• ~8 visitors/month → ~115/month. Roughly 14x.
• More interesting than the total: the old site was found by accident (passive search only). The new one actually gets shared — direct and social traffic that didn't exist before, plus the first referrals from our institution's own site. It spikes whenever we post about it, which a dead site never does.

Link if anyone wants to tear it apart: spineanesthesiafellowship.com

Genuinely after feedback from people who do this properly — what would you fix on the UX, and is there anything about an AI-built site that bites you later (SEO, maintainability) that I should know before I get comfortable?