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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

Making it responsive

Making pages responsive in Webflow is easier than it sounds, but it does require being thoughtful and deliberate.

One of the main ideas, as explained before, is to always start from the base breakpoint. In this case, our base breakpoint started at 1440px, which is the typical size of many non-retina laptop screens.

Any styles set on this breakpoint will cascade down to smaller screen sizes. This is why when you switch to tablet or mobile breakpoints, the layouts of the page look wrong; they are blindly applying the same layouts of the base breakpoint to the smaller screens.

In order to ensure the page is fully responsive, we'll adjust the layouts on each breakpoint, starting with the tablet.

Tablet breakpoint

When you switch to the tablet screen, you'll see something resembling Figure 4.34:

Figure 4.34 – Tablet breakpoint

For the most part, it doesn't look too bad. Webflow even does some of the work...