Shorten a page
Long pages happen by accretion — a paragraph added here, a notice there — until visitors scroll past the lot. Cutting your own writing is the hardest edit there is; handing the scissors to your AI makes it painless.
How it works
- Get your access prompt. Log in to bernard, open your site, and copy the prompt from Edit with AI (it contains a key that works for 12 hours).
- Paste it into your AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, whichever you already use — then ask in your own words, or use the prompt below.
- Approve. The AI sends back a preview link. Check nothing essential was lost, press Approve, and it's live.
If the page is long because it covers two different things, consider splitting it into two pages instead — the AI can do that too, and your menu gets clearer in the bargain.
The prompt
“Shorten my [name of the page] page to about [half its length / a few short paragraphs] — keep [the things that must stay], cut the rest, and don't lose any contact details.”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Log in to bernard → your site → Edit with AI → copy your access prompt, paste that into your AI first, then ask the above.
Questions people ask
- How do I make a long website page shorter?
- If your site is hosted with bernard, ask your AI — ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini — to cut the page down, telling it roughly how short and what must survive. It sends back a preview; nothing is published until you read it and press Approve.
- What if it cuts something important?
- Name your must-keeps in the ask — prices, dates, contact details — and read the preview before approving. If something's missing, reject and say what to put back; bernard also keeps a full year of history, so the long version can be restored.
- Is a shorter page worse for Google?
- No — clear, focused pages tend to do better than padded ones. The AI is required to preserve your page titles, descriptions and headings when it edits, so the trimming happens in the body text, not in what search engines rely on.