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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 12: Managing CMS Projects

If you've followed Chapter 10, Creating Your First CMS Project, and Chapter 11, Creating Collection Pages, you should have built a functional dynamic website that makes use of some of the most important features of Webflow CMS. So far, we've been focusing on the creation and web design side of things. In reality, a CMS and its content are likely meant to exist and evolve over time. As a data store, a CMS can be seen as a living, breathing repository of information that can be used and reused in a variety of ways.

If this repository becomes large enough (think hundreds and maybe even thousands of data items), then it's likely that you'll need some help to manage the CMS and its Collections.

As such, we'll devote this chapter to exploring some of the features and functions of Webflow CMS that will help make our lives a little easier when it comes to managing CMS projects. We'll cover the following topics:

  • Collection...