Unclaimed: Are are working at Webflow ?
Weblfow allows business owners, entrepreneurs, marketers, and content creators to build websites and publish content using the full power of HTML, Javascript, and CSS in a fully visual canvas without the need for coding. Combining e-commerce, marketing, content management, animation, and design function in a single platform, it empowers users to launch, manage, and promote websites and content within a quick turnaround time and in a more cost-efficient manner. Users have access to more than 1,000 templates coupled with a host of marketing capabilities such as mobile responsiveness, search engine optimization, CRM syncing, and useful integrations. Apart from its CBS features, Webflow is also e-commerce and content monetization-ready. It also offers Webflow University, a comprehensive knowledge repository of everything that users need to know to maximize the platform.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, On-Premise Linux |
Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
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As long as you have basic knowledge of HTML/CSS - webflow is the perfect tool to use. Super simple, straightforward, drag & drop design with the ability to fully customize. I haven't run into anything it can't do yet. I use it for my freelance clients and my own portfolio. The tutorials have made me a better designer.
Quite a few different tiers for pricing, some features hidden behind additional paywalls.
- Easy to design and launch custom sites - helps me better understand the principles of web design - great tutorials, easy to get started
I'm seriously surprised by the capabilities of webflow. I was a little skeptical at first, but it genuinely is a GUI design tool that outputs a working website and or exports working HTML and CSS code. It makes design hand off and even design implementation extremely easy.
I found there to be a bit of a learning curve, but I think that's to be expected with any new tool. It did take me a little bit to get used to remapping the way I think about spatial relationships and objects, but once I had that down it was easy. Webflow provides a wealth of knowledge in their education library on everything as well.
We're creating marketing pages to widen our conversion funnel. Sometimes we'll get an idea on focusing on a specific SKU or product, or it may be something ephemeral and season specific, so being able to to have the flexibility of designing and creating a quick landing page without engineering involvement has been a big game changer.
I love that the Webflow team has a huge library of video lessons and tutorials for each question. Literally, if I don't know how to build something in WF, they already have a lesson about that! Besides, I'm very happy about the simplicity of use for both me (Designers panel) and my clients (Editor panel). I use WF every day to build projects for my clients as well as for creating my personal projects. It's fast, simple, and awesome. And I am absolutely in love with Webflow interactions!
There're no downsides, trust me. If you use Webflow, you're a winner. I just wonder why people are still using WordPress, or Tilda, or any other site builder. Many of my clients come to me thinking they would get a site on WordPress. Nope, no way! I show them Webflow and they fall in love with it.
The biggest problem I solve with Webflow is time. I used to work on WordPress before and it used to take me weeks and even months to build a website. It was also very hard to maintain and update it. It was so painful compared to my Webflow experience. Now it takes me hours or a couple of days to build a fully functional and responsive website! That's incredible! And WordPress sucks, lol! I build my personal projects on Webflow too!
WebFlow makes it easy to get a new landing page up and simplifies the management of marketing pages. It's a fantastic no-code tool that still enables tech-savvy individuals to get into the code and make custom changes while providing "university support docs" to help users learn how to use the product to get up to speed fast.
The only issue we've run into is our process for publishing new pages. Unfortunately, when you are creating new pages (outside of their CMS feature) if you want to publish your new pages, you have to publish all the pages. This has become an issue for us when working on new pages over a few weeks, but then running into a situation where we need to publish changes for another page, we can't publish changes for the page in issue until we finish the other pages that are pending.
We use WebFlow to manage all our marketing pages. It's really easy to get content out fast, and allows non-technical individuals to build/manage/maintain all aspects of our marketing pages.
I love WebFlow. Their customer service is fantastic, their product is fantastic, WebFlow Univeristy has been super helpful. I can't say enough about how awesome WebFlow is. Don't waste time with any of the other options, I have and I've made the mistake of letting various digital marketing "gurus" talk me into other products. They are all terrible when compared to WebFlow and every time that I've let myself get talked into a different service, I've alway ended up going back to WebFlow. I've learned my lesson though. Going forward I will only work with marketing gurus who use WebFlow. Seriously, don't waste time with the other products. Life is too short.
Nothing... I have found that usually, the issue is that I just didn't know how to do something and not that WebFlow was lacking. The WebFlow community is very helpful in that regard as well.
My business websites
I love their informative and slightly humorous videos. Their online video academy allows users to see and learn about the product prior to jumping in. And when you're ready to jump in, the UX is pleasing and straightforward. Learning and using a tool like this is extremely valuable to your development and career as a design or development professional. A real asset to have in your digital toolset.
The pricing is slightly confusing. You have to understand the difference between Account plans and Site plans. Which they do a pretty good job of differentiating on their site. But I can see certain users possibly not understanding the difference and signing up for the incorrect plan.
Faster design and development of company landing pages and microsites. Webflow sites require less technical setup and mainetance than some of their competitors.
Awesome templates, easy integration with 3rdparty tools, a huge documentation and community
The editor view for customers. I hope that administrators can modify the information that our customers can modify or touch on the web.
Web creator for all type of projects. Fast deployment, cheap and easy to make a mockup In ten minutes.
Being able to transfer from design to development seamlessly
I don't think there's a way to build userbases which has forced me to use other apps. I would love to see that come to Webflow
Launching prettier products faster
The high focus on quality design and the visual coding approach.
A tiny bit of custom code is still needed for certain tasks.
Quick and visually stunning web designs that are responsive, clean, and quick to deliver.
From the tutorials to the helpful Webflow community, there is never a shortage of new things to learn about Webflow. As someone without a formal tech or design background, I was able to use Webflow's resources to build the website of my dreams. I'm constantly iterating and finding new ways to use the platform. It seems like the possibilities are endless!
Since I am not an expert web developer, it would be nice to have more collaborative features or places to leave notes/comments for future iterations.
How to present my brand in a way that is simple, elegant and effective. One main benefit I've noticed since using Webflow is understanding how it builds off of HTML/CSS framework, which helps me better understand how websites work.