I have just spent two full months, almost daily, preparing my site. laurentchani.com. I started by opening an account with OVH and use WordPress.org, but I quickly realized that I had to "get my hands dirty" with IT. This was not my initial objective: I wanted to have a platform to talk about my author activity, write items on this unique adventure, full of promises, and of course continue my writing work.

I quickly became disillusioned and moved on to plan B: the environment WordPress.com, where I domiciled my domain name in .com. This environment was better suited because it was simpler, therefore more closed and less configurable. No more question of taking side roads or being too demanding without moving to paid plans, which seems to be perceived quite badly by the WP.com user community — more than 500 million websites, representative 43,4 % of all websites. Impressive! That's what we call a dominant position.

After a month, I had a own site, with already around fiftyitems. But this was not done in the tranquility of a step-by-step tutorial. Being webmaster is a profession in itself. Unfortunately for me, I never give up a bone to gnaw on. Moreover, after writing more than a thousand pages, I needed a break. So I embarked on this adventure thanks to my long experience of programmer and to my best ally of the moment: my AI, which I have been working full-time for the past two months. In the past month, I have done more than 500 requests to AI to help me in the settings of all kinds. It's hardly believable. I even invested a twenty euros per month to avoid interruptions when I had exceeded my daily quota of the free AI offer.

I quickly realized: if I wanted a quality site (out of content), I had to go back to WordPress.org. Indeed, it is free via my hostOne of the great advantages is the wealth of extensions (plugins), often free and largely sufficient for my needs.

This time I really put the hands in the grease, always guided by my faithful companion. The system is more flexible and permissive than its predecessor WP.com and allows me to go further. The main reason for this return was my wish to touch a wider audience by making the site multilingual (mainly in English). Between the importance of the French-speaking market and that of the English-speaking market, as they say, "there is no comparison."

So here I am, back for another month of hard work. And since I never commit without safeguards, I needed a way to assess whether the investment was worth it. So I searched among my peers for the most established and popular authors. I chose the site Stephen King for the English-speaking market (https://stephenking.com/) and that of Marc Levy for the French-speaking market (https://www.marclevy.com/).

Of course, I asked my best friend AI to carry out a comparative study with my site. For the sake of completeness, I consulted four other applications website evaluation. measured performance, THE criteria and the weightings varying enormously from one tool to another, it was very difficult for me to draw an objective conclusion.

In summary, I accept the assessment produced by my AI, with the following results:
• The site of Marc Levy achieved a score of 95/100.
• The site of Stephen King achieved a score of 90/100.
• My site under WP.org gets 80/100, which seems to be considered close to a professional website.

I still have some work to do to make it more attractive to users (user friendly) and more relevant to the SEO by search engines — the famous SEO. It's a lot of hard work that awaits me, but it's essential if I want to make this tool a high-performance support.

And that's not the end of the journey. There's still work to be done on the social networks, especially those dedicated to writers : communicate, share, participate. A whole program in the long run.

There is, however, one subject that is bothering me and that I would like to share with you: what do I think of these two months of intense immersion with theAI ? From the point of view of knowledge, I can say that he is a master of his subject. He is a expert, without a doubt. However, the key is knowing what ask, and how. He may have almost all the human knowledge available on the net - as said Elon Musk in an interview in early 2025 — that's not enough. And to paraphrase another big name in AI, Sam Altman, "I won't be going to a virtual doctor for treatment tomorrow."

I will return to the subject in a next article, because two months of immersion in the meanders of theartificial intelligence as a user leave a mixed taste bitterness And fascination.