Webflow Reviews & Product Details

Webflow's visual designer lets everyone see what is being produced in real-time. The content management system is also one of the greatest features of the tool.

Occasionally Webflow will have a small bug on a certain feature or process which can become frustrating in the moment, however the team seems to remedy their bugs really quickly by constantly listening to customer feedback.

Webflow allows my studio to create custom-designed websites for our clients. The versatile tool enables us to design without restriction on what we can achieve. Our clients also love using the software as they never have to worry about the design of their site.

It is very easy to work collaboratively to iterate through versions of a web page. The wealth of training material and online makes it very easy to solve problems.

Certain features require external plug-ins. Such as filtering and sorting search results for an e-shop. It would be a huge QoL improvement to look at popular 3rd party plugins and re-reate them natively.

We don't have any html experts at our company, and Webflow makes it easy to build content ourselves. This makes us more productive.

Simplified CSS styling using the UI, high flexibility of animation, very easy and quick to implement and iterate design ideas. Updates and amendments are very easy and fast to make. The community is large and very helpful, its relatively easy to find a solution to a specific design issue since someone is bound to have ran into the same problem before. Webflow definately has a learning curve to it as a designer but the things you can create with it definately are worth the effort. Designs that were only possible to do with larger in house teams are within the reach of solo freelancers, so Im going to chalk it up as a pro instead of a con. The tutorials like the flex box game definately help and the videos are hillarious, someone give those guys (another) raise. I found myself just binge watching them instead of netflix.

Some bugs are persisting even though they have been flagged for a long time by the community and continuously ignored by the developers. Pricing plans are overly complicated and hard to explain to a client that is not tech savy and dont have a background knowledge of industry jargon. Ecommerce needs more love and being able to set up custom payment processors besides paypal / stripe / apple pay. A lot of small businesses use other payment processors specific to their country and these rates are not viable. Breakpoints need to be expanded, 1080px being the largest is way too small where 1080 is basically the smallest resolution monitor you can get on the market. 2k and 4k are a must have in 2023. Better yet custom breakpoints should be available. It desperately needs multilanguage support (I understand it is in the works). Ecommerce emails are disastrously bad, cannot be customised besides some basic color styling and the product list is not properly padded. We need full HTML control over that. Some of the checkout fields need more options and custom fields, at the moment you can only add a custom string field and long string field. Regarding templates and #MadeInWebflow its decent but there needs to be a comment section that used to be there. I realise its not the most efficient way for someone providing templates to offer support but there needs to be a solution for some type of two-way conversation. On that note, the editor needs a lot more ways to debug your designs, the x-ray function is great, we would need something similar for the animation editor where things really get crazy and some of the interactions are not so easy to understand, maybe under the form of some type of simplified console where you can click an element under preview view and see what changes are applied to it, or possibly be able to reverse-search for animations by a specific element (click an element and see a list of interactions affecting it). Support for the platform is ok I guess, but I'm having trouble putting it down as a positive because its impossible to get in touch with a real person within a reasonable time in an agile environment and its only possible to get help regarding the most basic issues, if there is some bug with the editor like some images randomly resizing on screen without changing any of the CSS good luck having someone help you with it.

It allows us to respond to design requests in fast paced agile environment. Clients want a website up and running in a matter of days but with more flexibility than a basic web builder like wiix or squarespace allow, we can achieve that with webflow. The CMS is simpler compared to wordpress which is very welcomed by our clients.

The best part of Webflow is its visual builder, but it's much more than any other visible site builder out there. Think of it as a visual builder for coders. Everything you build creates clean code in the background. I have built many websites on Webflow, from small one-page landing pages to websites with hundreds of pages, and it works great every time.

Two areas are slightly negative for me regarding the Webflow platform. The first is how the billing is set up; it can be very confusing. When you make an account, you need to pay to use the site builder; when you publish a site, you must pay separately for the site hosting. If you need to add users or workspaces, that is also different. Second, I would like some more advanced routing and tools when it comes to forms built in Webflow, which work fine, but you need a zapier connection to get the most out of them.

I don't have a traditional coding background; Webflow allows me to build websites at a high level because of its no-code platform. I now have the ability to do anything from fundamental design and styling to advanced features like animation and interactions, all without having to write any code.

For someone with limited code experience, it is the best platform I have tried that gives me the power of hand coding and insight into how a web project functions and remains lean. I can work fast and confidently.

There are few limitations. Some features take a bit longer to arrive due to it now being an open source platform. But they do have an upvote system for recommending features.

From making something as simple as a contact form truly plug and play to really simplifying hosting to practically and couple of buttons. Webflow takes a lot off my plate and allows me to do much more.

Where should I start... I love that it is easy to use and, of course, that it is no code. Which is awesome for someone like me, who understands basic code but isn't coder. BUT I absolutely love Webflow University and the fact that Webflow is actually listening to its customers and fans, trying to make it better everyday. So a big THANK YOU to Webflow.

There's not much. The only I think I don't like is the GDPR hazzle we have when using Webflow outside of the US. But that's not Webflow's fault but rather the EU and Germany. So actually, I don't dislike anything.

It's lightning-fast and easy to use. It offers an easy and fantastic way to design and develop pixel-perfect websites for my clients. I no longer need to hand off my design to the developer; instead, I am the developer, designer, and administrator.

It has a short learning curve for us as an agency that is used to work in web delevopment and you can do something pretty basic or with advanced functionality in less time. We can focus more on design and ux/ui.

For some clients, pricing is not so clear and there is quite a big leap from business to entenprise in terms of money. Some restrictions forms submitted could be also a problem for clients that rely on that metric.

It allows me to deliver projects faster and avoid large technical configurations to set up a project. It's easy for my team to test and iterate over a design and that helps us deliver a better product to our clientes.

I love the drag and drop option of all of the components. I also love all of the pre-made sections, like forms and tabs. It makes the process much quicker.

It has a bit of a learning curve and its is not optimized enough for SEO.

Webflow allows me to quickly add new pages, manage the blog post through CMS and make quick changes in my website without the need of a team.

Out of the many template-based website builders I have used in the past, Webflow is the most intuitive and powerful.

If you are coming from a major drag-and-drop website builder, the learning curve for Webflow could be quite large.

The speed and control at which you can create pages is the biggest benefit. It also allows for faster website updates without any coding knowledge.

Webflow gave me, a designer, the power to bring my website designs to life without having to conform to the templates and restrictions of other website builders. You have control over every aspect of the website and the amount of content that is out there by both the Webflow team and the community makes learning so much easier.

There is definitely a learning curve, especially for those without any prior HTML & CSS experience (NOT necessary, I personally was able to learn without this experience). Thankfully, there are many great learning resources, both paid and free. It can be frustrating at first, but it gets easier with time and practice!

Webflow allows me to quickly and consistently build whole sites, new pages, and content all on my own. As a designer, I don't have to worry about handing off my designs to a developer and waiting for them to get back to me. This saves my company and me so much time and opens up more opportunities to explore different ideas and less on execution.