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Webflow by Example

By : Ali Rushdan Tariq
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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

Chapter 7: Introduction to Interactions and Animations

By now, you've built a complete and fully responsive landing page for SecondPlate, a fictional food delivery service. While many landing pages can typically be ready to launch at this stage, we can take it the extra mile and give it an additional level of polish. In this chapter, we'll see how we can begin to achieve this by using Webflow's powerful interactions and animation tools. As always, it will all be done without code.

Specifically, we'll cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Basic concepts and principles of interactions and animations that will underpin everything we do in this chapter and Chapter 8, Advanced Interactions
  • Creating simple hover effects and transitions on multiple element properties
  • Using Webflow's interaction tool to add simple element-based triggers that result in elements smoothly animating onto the page
  • Creating a custom interaction that moves elements...