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Webflow by Example

By : Ali Rushdan Tariq
Book Image

Webflow by Example

By: Ali Rushdan Tariq

Overview of this book

Webflow is a modern no-code website-builder that enables you to rapidly design and build production-scale responsive websites. Webflow by Example is a practical, project-based, and beginner-friendly guide to understanding and using Webflow to efficiently build and launch responsive websites from scratch. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will take you through modern web development principles and help you to apply them efficiently using Webflow. You’ll also get to grips with modern responsive web development and understand how to take advantage of the power and flexibility of Webflow. The book will guide you through a real-life project where you will build a fully responsive and dynamic website from scratch. You will learn how to add animations and interactions, customize experiences for users, and more. Finally, the book covers important steps and best practices for making your website ready for production, including SEO optimization and how to publish and package the website. By the end of this Webflow book, you will have gained the skills you need to build modern responsive websites from scratch without any code.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Webflow
5
Section 2: Building a Mobile Responsive Landing Page with Webflow
11
Section 3: Building a Dynamic Website with Webflow CMS
16
Section 4: Additional Topics

Finishing touches

Now that we've uploaded some libraries into our CMS, we can view them on the home page in all their glory! Right away, you should find that looking at real data makes the page look far better. But you may also notice some things look a little off. Let's add some finishing touches to fix these.

First, as seen in Figure 10.21, some of the library entries aren't aligned properly with each other:

Figure 10.21 – Some library entries appear misaligned on the home page

This is because the images we had uploaded as showcase images for the libraries don't all have the same dimensions. We can quickly fix this by adding some consistency to the dimensions of the images.

Select one of the showcase images. Then, set its Width property to 500 PX and the Height property to 350 PX. You'll notice that now all the showcase images get a uniform width and height, which aligns all the libraries cleanly in place, as seen in...