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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

Updating Collections

When we created our Libraries Collection in Chapter 10, Creating Your First CMS Project, recall that we had created several fields that we then populated with data. This included fields such as the library's Name, Address, Description, Showcase Image, and more. Going forward, we may want to update either the data that is stored in the fields or the structures of the Collection fields themselves.

Let's begin by learning how to update the data in the fields.

Updating data in Collection fields

Recall that we had populated data in the Collection by using a data import file in Chapter 10, Creating Your First CMS Project. We could reimport data using a similar technique, but what if you just wanted to update a single or a handful of field data? Using an import file may be too tedious. As you might expect, Webflow gives us a simple way to do just that.

You may have already noticed that when we imported the data, some of the fields were missing. If...