Claude Design closes on 14 December: how to keep your website online

By Povilas, who runs Ginta · 5 November 2026 · 4 min read

The standalone Claude Design site (claude.ai/design) closes on 14 December 2026, and public links to its projects stop working after that, says Anthropic. If you used one of those links as your website, export the project before then and put it on a real host, ideally at your own domain. You can move a project into Claude as an artifact, or download it as a .zip. Below: what's changing, how to save your project, and three ways to keep the website online, including having Claude publish it through Ginta.

Anthropic's plans were checked in its help centre on 5 November 2026 (Move from standalone Claude Design to Claude). Ginta is our product.

What's changing

• 14 December 2026: the standalone site closes. Until then you can keep using it; afterwards it's read-only and you can't start new projects there.
• Public links stop working when it closes. Anthropic says this plainly: "Public links to projects in the standalone version will no longer work after it closes." There's no redirect to a new address.
• Move to Claude, rolling out gradually to paid plans, turns projects into artifacts in Claude. Once moved, the standalone copy becomes read-only for everyone, and the move "can't be undone". Chats and comments stay behind.
• Export works for any project: open it, choose Share, then Project HTML, keep Project archive selected and press Export. You get a .zip of all the project's files. Exporting is free.
• Organisations with zero data retention can't move projects and should download them before the site closes.

So if a customer, a client or your Instagram bio points at a Claude Design link, that link has about five weeks left.

Step 1: save your project now

Do both, so you have a copy whatever happens:

1. Export the .zip (Share → Project HTML → Project archive → Export) and keep it somewhere safe.
2. Save the chats and comments you need: Anthropic says they aren't carried over.
3. If Move to Claude is available to you, move the projects you want to keep working on.

Step 2: put it on a real address

A Claude link was never your business's website anyway: you couldn't put it on your own domain, search engines don't treat it as your site, and a contact form needs somewhere to send messages. Pick one of these.

Option A: let Claude publish it with Ginta (no files to handle)

Ginta is a website builder and host that Claude can publish to. Add it once: it's in Claude's connector directory, or add https://ginta.app/mcp as a custom connector (steps on build a website with Claude).

• Moved your project to Claude? It's an artifact now. In that chat, say "Publish this with Ginta". Claude sends the page to Ginta, which puts it online at name.ginta.page straight away. We tested the same flow with an ordinary artifact: live in 151 seconds.
• Only have the .zip? Ask Claude to rebuild the page with Ginta from your design: attach a screenshot of the old page and paste its text. Claude writes it as a normal website and publishes it, and you can keep changing it by asking.

Then connect your own domain on a paid plan (from €5 a month on Hosting, made for people who build with their own AI), or buy one inside Ginta for €29 a year. Building through Claude uses no Ginta credits.

Option B: upload the .zip from your computer with Claude Code

If you use Claude Code, unzip the export, open the folder in a terminal and ask Claude Code to "publish this folder with Ginta" (after claude mcp add --transport http ginta https://ginta.app/mcp). It gets a short-lived upload link from Ginta and sends the whole folder in one go: how it works.

Option C: any static host

The exported files are a static website. Netlify Drop, Cloudflare Pages and GitHub Pages take a folder and let you connect a domain. Good if you're comfortable with DNS and will edit the code yourself next time.

Two things to check, wherever it goes

• Scripts from other websites. If the exported page loads code from other servers (fonts are fine), check that your new host allows it. On Ginta, scripts from other websites need a paid plan; on the free plan, ask Claude to rewrite the page as plain HTML and CSS, which is usually faster on phones anyway.
• Forms. A form in a design tool often doesn't send anywhere. On Ginta, Claude connects the contact form so messages land in your inbox and email, and Ginta adds a privacy page.

Written with AI help for Ginta, which Povilas runs; he also teaches a website-building course. The screenshots are from the real Ginta on the date above, and prices come from our pricing page.