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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

The Main features section

Before we dive headfirst into this section, let's begin by taking a bird's eye view of what it is we'll be building.

The Main features section consists of nine content blocks, commonly referred to as cards, arranged in a grid consisting of three columns and three rows. Figure 5.17 shows what this looks like from the original designs:

Figure 5.17 – 3x3 grid of feature cards

Each card consists of one icon, one headline, and a short paragraph of text, as shown in Figure 5.18:

Figure 5.18 – A single content card

As such, this entire section is essentially a content box that contains a 3x3 grid of more content boxes, each of which is a content box of its own.

So, with that, let's start by building the larger grid!

Creating the grid

As always, make sure you're in the base breakpoint before you start.

  1. Let's start by creating a new section. Select the...