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Webflow by Example

By : Ali Rushdan Tariq
Book Image

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

Animating transitions on hover

One of the most common types of transitions you might have seen on websites is simple animations when you hover over buttons. In order to signify that the user is hovering over a clickable button, we can make the button change color, grow, cast a shadow, and a whole host of other effects.

To achieve this, we need to specify three things:

  • What does the element in question look like in its initial state?
  • What does it look like in its final state?
  • Are there any transition effects we want in order to take the element from its initial state to its final state?

Typically, this would have required us to write custom CSS, but Webflow allows us to do this visually without code.

In our case, we're going to add simple transition effects onto the download buttons that are on the Hero section of the SecondPlate landing page. We'll shift from a non-active state to a hover state, and in doing so, we'll move the button slightly...