Bring your existing website with you

A lot has changed in Fulta over the last few weeks.

The biggest update is something we've wanted from the beginning:

You can now bring an existing website into Fulta and build from it.

Instead of manually copying text, uploading the same images again and explaining what every page of your current site does, you can give Fulta the website and choose what you want to bring over.

Import an existing website

Paste the address of a website and Fulta first looks through it to understand what's there.

It can identify the site's main pages and separate larger sections such as blogs or product catalogues, so you don't have to scroll through hundreds of URLs.

You then choose which parts you actually want to import before spending any credits.

This also means importing a small five-page business website and importing a huge content-heavy site don't have to behave the same way.

Text, images and your logo come with it

The first version of the importer only understood page content.

That wasn't enough.

A website isn't just its text, so Fulta can now also bring over the images used throughout the site and add them to the project's media library.

The site's logo is brought over too, so rebuilding a website doesn't have to start with another logo upload.

Once imported, these assets become normal Fulta media and can be used by the builder just like files you uploaded yourself.

Forms are preserved too

One of the more interesting things we discovered while testing the importer was that normal webpage-to-Markdown conversion completely loses forms.

That means a quote request page could arrive with all of its surrounding text — but without the name field, email field, service selector or consent checkbox that made the page useful in the first place.

Fulta now reads forms separately and carries over their structure, including fields, labels, required inputs and available choices.

For a small business website, that's often some of the most important information on the entire site.

Fulta also looks at the design

We don't want importing a website to mean putting the old text into a completely unrelated design.

Fulta can now inspect some of the visual characteristics of the existing site too.

That includes things such as its typography and colour palette, plus a higher-level impression of the layout and visual style.

The goal isn't to make a pixel-perfect clone.

It's to give the builder enough context to understand whether the old site was, for example, spacious and minimal, colourful and playful, or more traditional and corporate — and then use that as a direction for the new version.

From imported material to a new website

Once the import is complete, the material can be attached directly to your Fulta conversation.

From there you can simply ask for what you actually want:

Rebuild my website with a cleaner, more modern design.

Or:

Keep my existing content, but completely rethink the structure and make it feel more premium.

Or even:

Use my current website as the starting point, but turn it into something completely different.

Fulta gets the imported material as context without forcing a generated instruction into your message.

And after the first successful build, that old website stops travelling with every future request.

If you come back weeks later and ask Fulta to change a button, it shouldn't need to reread the website you originally imported just to do it.

Also improved under the hood

Website importing has been the visible part of the work, but several smaller improvements landed alongside it.

Fulta's preview checks are now better at catching content that technically exists on a page but isn't actually visible to the visitor.

Repeated build checks have also been made faster by avoiding unnecessary dependency installations and development server restarts.

And several failure cases around image processing, photo search and external services have been changed so a temporary problem is less likely to kill an entire generation.

None of these are particularly flashy features.

But together they make the difference between an AI builder that works in a demo and one that can reliably build real websites.

We're still testing website import against increasingly weird real-world sites.

And, as we've discovered, the older the website is, the more interesting that gets. 😄