{"slug": "building-a-landing-page-in-neleto-a-real-walkthrough-mouse-and-prompt", "title": "Building a Landing Page in Neleto: A Real Walkthrough (Mouse and Prompt)", "summary": "Neleto's block-based visual page builder and MCP server integration let users build a landing page in 11 minutes by hand or 90 seconds via AI prompt. A developer built the same page twice, finding the AI handles scaffolding while the visual editor polishes the final 10%.", "body_md": "Most \"page builder\" articles are demos that quietly skip the annoying parts. This isn't that. I built the same landing page twice — once by hand in our visual builder, once by asking Claude to do it through our [MCP server](https://dev.to/blog/mcp-server-explained) — and timed both. Here's exactly what happened, including the bits that were slower than I'd like.\n\nNeleto's [page builder](https://dev.to/docs/resources/pages) is a block-based visual editor. You drag sections onto a canvas — hero, text, image, gallery, CTA, columns, embed — set their content and spacing in a side panel, and the page renders with our built-in Rust frontend. No separate frontend app, no framework to wire up. You hit publish and the page is live on your domain.\n\nThe point is that you don't *have* to choose between \"developer headless setup\" and \"locked-in website builder.\" You get the visual editor for the 90% case, and full HTML/CSS control plus a plugin API for the 10% that needs it.\n\nI built a launch landing page for a fictional client: hero with headline and a signup button, a three-column feature row, a testimonial block, and a closing CTA.\n\nStart to finish: **about 11 minutes.** Breakdown of where the time went:\n\nHonest take: the builder is genuinely fast for hero and CTA blocks. Repetitive multi-column content is where any visual editor starts to feel like data entry, and ours is no exception. The mobile preview caught two spacing issues before I published, which I appreciated.\n\nThen I deleted the page and rebuilt it through the MCP server. I opened Claude and said, roughly:\n\n\"Create a landing page in Neleto called 'Spring Launch.' Hero headline 'Ship faster, pay less,' subhead about a 14-day trial, and a 'Start free' button. Add a three-column feature row covering speed, EU hosting, and AI integration. Add a testimonial from a fictional agency owner. End with a CTA to book a demo. Use our brand colors and publish it as a draft.\"\n\nClaude created the page, populated every block, and left it as a draft for me to review. Elapsed time: **about 90 seconds**, most of which was me reading what it produced.\n\nThe three-column row — the part that took four minutes by hand — was the part the prompt handled best, because describing three parallel things in one sentence is far faster than building them one block at a time. I still went in and tweaked the testimonial wording and swapped one icon. The AI got me to 90%; the visual editor got me the last 10%.\n\nBoth, depending on the task. After doing this a few times, here's my honest rule of thumb:\n\nThe thing I didn't expect is how often I now start in the prompt and finish in the editor. The AI does the boring scaffolding, I do the polish. That combination is genuinely the fastest way I've found to put a page online, and it's the reason we built the [MCP server](https://dev.to/blog/mcp-connectors) into the product rather than bolting on a chatbot.\n\nFor a four-section landing page: 11 minutes by hand, 90 seconds by prompt plus a couple of minutes of polish. That's not a fair fight, but it's also not the point. The point is you're never stuck. Non-technical editors can drag blocks without help. Developers can drop into HTML. And anyone with Claude open can describe a page and have it built.\n\nNo frontend framework to set up. No usage-based bill that balloons when the page gets traffic. It renders on our Rust backend, so it's fast out of the box, and it's [hosted in Germany](https://dev.to/blog/eu-hosting-compliance) if you choose the EU region.\n\nIf you want to see the prompt-to-page flow, the fastest test is to spin up a [free Neleto project](https://dev.to/pricing), connect the MCP server to Claude, and ask it to build something. Give it a messy, one-paragraph description of a page and watch what comes back. Then open the visual editor and make it yours.\n\nThat second step — making it yours — is the part we're proudest of. The AI gets you moving. The builder lets you finish.\n\n— **Start free at neleto.io** · the only CMS with a native MCP server, hosted in the EU.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/building-a-landing-page-in-neleto-a-real-walkthrough-mouse-and-prompt", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/neletomartin/building-a-landing-page-in-neleto-a-real-walkthrough-mouse-and-prompt-1k9h", "published_at": "2026-07-28 07:30:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-28 08:04:49.207163+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Neleto", "Claude", "MCP server"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/building-a-landing-page-in-neleto-a-real-walkthrough-mouse-and-prompt", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/building-a-landing-page-in-neleto-a-real-walkthrough-mouse-and-prompt.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/building-a-landing-page-in-neleto-a-real-walkthrough-mouse-and-prompt.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/building-a-landing-page-in-neleto-a-real-walkthrough-mouse-and-prompt.jsonld"}}