--- title: "Build a Website From a Site You Like | Briks" url: https://briks.dev/features/build-from-sites-you-like description: "Add a site you admire. Briks reads its layout, spacing, type and motion, then builds your site in that spirit with your own words." last_updated: 2026-10-08 --- On every plan # Build your website from a site you like Show Briks a site you admire, and screenshots if you have them. It reads how the page is put together and builds yours in that spirit, with your own words and pictures for your business. No site in mind? Briks keeps its own library of over 250 of the best sites on the web, studied for layout, spacing, type and motion, and can start from the closest match. The library keeps growing. ## How it works 1. **Add the site** Paste one address in the new-project steps, with screenshots if you like. 2. **Briks reads it** It studies the page's layout, spacing, type, motion and header, the way a designer would take notes. 3. **It builds yours** Your site follows that rhythm and look, written for your business from your brief. ## What Briks reads on a site you like When you add the address of a site you admire, Briks opens the page and studies it the way a designer takes notes before a project. It reads the layout of each section, the spacing between them, the typefaces and how they are sized, the motion, and the header menu. It does not take the words or the pictures. Your words come from your brief, and the pictures are for your business, not the reference's. What carries over is the structure and the feel: a quiet, editorial page stays quiet, and a bold page led by big photographs stays bold. You can add one site per project, plus screenshots. Screenshots help when the page you like sits behind a sign-in, or when you want to point at one part of a page rather than all of it. ## Why a reference helps a small business Most owners know what they like long before they can describe it. "Clean, like that architect's site" is hard to turn into a brief, but an address is precise. Showing Briks a page you admire saves a round of back and forth, because the first version already sits in the family of design you meant. It also helps you stand apart. If every competitor in your town uses the same template, point at a site from another trade or another country and borrow its rhythm instead. A florist can take cues from a fashion label, and a joiner from an architecture studio. A reference settles questions before they are asked. When you give one, Briks does not ask you about the layout, the look or what leads the home page, because the site you showed already answers them. It still asks which pages you want. ## What to expect, and the limits A reference sets the direction. Your site carries your own words, your own business details and pictures for your business, so it reads as yours even where its layout follows the page you showed. Picking a look is not offered when you build from a reference, because the reference already decides how the site looks. If you would rather choose between three looks drawn for your business, leave the reference out and switch on Pick a look in the new-project steps. After the build, nothing is fixed. Ask for any change in plain words, such as a bigger headline or a different order of sections, and each change is saved as a version you can undo. ## Build from a site you like in practice Three example businesses, and how each would use it. Where a site is pictured, it is a sample Briks built for an example business, not a customer. 1. Pottery studio **Potters who like a gallery's calm** Two potters want their studio's site to feel like the small gallery that sells their work: white space, large photographs, quiet type. They paste the gallery's address and write a brief about their classes, commissions and open studio days. The site follows the gallery's spacing and calm, with their own classes and their own words. [![The opening of Fernhill Pottery, a sample site Briks built for an example pottery studio](https://briks.dev/showcase/fernhill-pottery.webp)](https://fernhill-pottery.briks.live/) **Fernhill Pottery** is a sample site Briks built for an example pottery studio, not a customer. [Open the sample](https://fernhill-pottery.briks.live/) 2. Law firm **A family law firm that wants to look less stiff** A two-partner family law firm finds that every competitor's site looks alike: navy, a gavel and stock handshakes. The partners add the address of a design consultancy they admire. Briks reads its layout and type, and the firm gets a site in that spirit, written about separation, children and fixed-fee first meetings. 3. Bed and breakfast **A B&B owner with screenshots, not just an address** The owner of a Georgian B&B saved screenshots of a boutique hotel's home page on her phone. She adds them beside the hotel's address and writes about her rooms, her breakfasts and the walk into town. The build follows the hotel's layout, with her rooms and her words. [![The opening of Hollyhock House, a sample site Briks built for an example bed and breakfast](https://briks.dev/showcase/bed-and-breakfast.webp)](https://bed-and-breakfast.briks.live/) **Hollyhock House** is a sample site Briks built for an example bed and breakfast, not a customer. [Open the sample](https://bed-and-breakfast.briks.live/) ## What you get - One reference site per project, plus screenshots - Reads layout, spacing, type, motion and the header menu - Your words and pictures, never the reference's - Available to everyone, including the Free plan ## Questions about build from a site you like ### Does Briks copy the site I show it? No. It reads how the page is built and builds yours in that spirit. The words come from your brief and the pictures are for your site. ### Do I need a reference site? No. Without one, Briks plans a design for your business on its own, and you can choose to pick from three looks first. ### Can I add screenshots instead? Yes. Screenshots can go with the address, which helps when a page is behind a sign-in. ### How many sites can I add? One per project, plus up to six screenshots. The limit is the same on every plan, including Free. ### Will it ask me about the design? Not when you give a reference: the site you showed answers questions about layout and look. It still asks which pages you want. ### What if I change my mind after the build? Ask for any change in plain words in the studio chat. Each change is saved as a version you can undo. ## Related features - [On every plan **Designed for your business** Briks designs every site you describe from a blank page, with type chosen for your trade, colours to suit it and contrast checked before it publishes. How it works](https://briks.dev/features/designed-for-your-business) - [Switch it on **Pick a look** Want a say in the design first? Switch it on and Briks shows three looks for your business, with colours, type and buttons, then builds the one you pick. How it works](https://briks.dev/features/pick-a-look) - [On every plan **Questions before building** Before a first build, Briks asks which pages you want and anything your words left open. Tick, type, or let it decide. For websites and apps. How it works](https://briks.dev/features/questions-before-building) - [On every plan **Checks before publishing** Every Briks build is checked for readable colour contrast in its code and on the live page at desktop and phone, with a repair when words are hard to read. How it works](https://briks.dev/features/contrast-checks) [See all 32 features](https://briks.dev/features) ## Try it on your own business Describe it in a sentence and Briks builds it. Start free with the credits you get at sign-up.