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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

Creating a CMS project

Remember that on the free plan of Webflow, you can create two projects, each with a maximum of two pages.

Since we've already used up one project with our previous SecondPlate landing page, let's go ahead and create a new project for our Libraries of the World CMS website:

  1. Navigate back to your Webflow dashboard page.
  2. Click the blue New Project button in the top-right corner of the page, as shown in Figure 10.1:

    Figure 10.1 – Creating a new project

  3. Select Blank Site on the template page and name it Libraries of the World.
  4. Once you've created the project, you'll land on a blank page. From the menu on the left, select the CMS menu item. Then, select the Create button to create your first Collection, as shown in Figure 10.2:

Figure 10.2 – Creating a new CMS Collection from scratch

You'll now be landed directly in the CMS Collections view. Admittedly, this page can feel a little...