Claude on the web: a beginner’s guide
This series takes you from zero to confident on claude.ai, Anthropic’s chat app for Claude in your browser. No coding, no installs, no prior AI experience. Each part is written so you can replay every step on your own screen, and anything that changes often, like plans and limits, points you to Anthropic’s own pages instead of quoting numbers that will go stale.
If you want to go further and build an agent that runs on your own PC, that is a different track: see Building your own agentic AI assistant.
Who this is for
Anyone who has heard of Claude but has not used it yet, or who signed up and does not know where to start. If you can use a web browser, you can follow along.
Series overview
- What Claude is and how to create your account — What Claude is (and which Claude products are separate), how to sign up with email or Google, the mandatory phone check, and which plan fits a beginner.
- Your first conversation with Claude on the web — From the empty chat box to your first prompt and reply, and what the model menu does.
- How to write prompts that get better results from Claude — Coming soon. A simple three-part structure, how to iterate, and how to fix an answer that misses.
- Uploading files and images to Claude — Coming soon. The plus menu, supported file types, and the real limits.
- Memory, search, and privacy on Claude.ai — Coming soon. What Claude remembers, how to search past chats, and how to keep a conversation private.
- Claude.ai usage limits: the five-hour budget explained — Coming soon. How the limit works and how to make it last longer.
New parts are added as they are published. Bookmark this page to follow along.