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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

Webflow CMS – the basics

With the free plan of Webflow, you can create a Webflow CMS project. However, it will be restricted to two pages. This will be sufficient for our needs.

In Webflow CMS, all content objects are called items, which, in turn, are grouped into Collections. A Collection is Webflow's way of grouping content that is alike in some way. So, if, for example, you were creating a list of meals for a cookbook, each recipe could form a single item in the cookbook and altogether, they could be grouped in a Collection called Recipes.

An item in the Collection is then further broken down into individual units of data called fields. These fields are the bottom-most level of data you can have in the CMS and can take on multiple types, from plaintext to number values and even color codes.

Note

It is worth mentioning that Webflow has a limit of 30 fields per item in the Collection. And with the basic CMS Site plan, you're allowed to create up to 2,000...