From a 432-page Printed Publication to an Interactive Website with AI Assistance
Challenge
Hungarian Heritage House wanted to make its 432-page Folk Art Report (Népművészeti Jelentés), originally produced for print, available online.
The report maps Hungary’s folk art revival movement, presenting the professional, regional, and institutional networks of communities active in folk music, folk dance, traditional crafts, and folk storytelling. Its purpose is to support the movement’s long-term development and international recognition.
Since the publication was intended as a one-time release, with no requirement for ongoing content management or editing, developing a full-featured dynamic web application would have been unnecessarily expensive.
Solution
Integral Vision used Claude Code in an iterative, prompt-driven development process to build a static website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Because the 432-page PDF far exceeded the model’s context window, the team generated helper scripts with Claude Code to automate key parts of the workflow:
- splitting the publication into chapters for processing in manageable units;
- automatically detecting and validating discrepancies between the original publication and the generated website.
The project also required adapting a print-oriented layout for the web. Data tables were transformed into interactive components, and an interactive SVG map was developed to visualize the regional organizations.
Results
The entire project, including revision rounds, was completed in 10 days. The first complete version of the content was produced in 2–3 days, with the remaining time spent on refinement and quality assurance. The solution is estimated to have cost approximately one quarter of what a comparable dynamic web application would have required, representing a substantial reduction in development costs.