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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

Adding the How it Works section

The first section that we'll be starting with is titled How it Works. Many landing pages feature this as a showcase of the main steps a user takes to get the value of a product. In our case, we'll be showcasing three separate features of the SecondPlate app, each feature showing a product mockup and some supportive text. We'll see how to use layout features and how to reuse content.

Figure 5.1 – Adding a new section

Execute the following steps to add the section:

  1. As shown in Figure 5.1, select the Body element and add a new Section element. While having this new Section selected, go to the Style pane on the right and select the Selector text box. Inside it, type Section to give the Section element a class name of Section. Next, let's add a second class by typing How it Works. This creates what's called a combo class. We'll dive deeper into what combo classes are later, but for...