Webflow

The perfect website builder for designer

Kommentare: In the end, I'm happy with Webflow. It's an amazing platform for designers, but it's definitely not enough for advanced website building. You can use it just for landing pages, personal blogs, portfolios, and local business websites. If you need advanced functionalities you need to hard code them (losing the benefit offered by the platform) or you need to chose a different platform.

Vorteile:

The UX of Webflow and its functionalities are perfect for every designer that wants to approach web design. It empowers designers to build award-winning websites with granular control over the final output. The Webflow hosting is blazing fast, the code generated is clean and lightweight, and the CMS functionalities are great.

Nachteile:

For a platform so good is incredible how many cons there are with Webflow: - it's not GDPR compliant, and they are actively and deliberately ignoring this issue - it doesn't have a multi-lingual system. You are forced to rely on third-party apps, that add a huge monthly cost for the maintenance of your website - the e-commerce side is incredibly weak compared to other players - the CMS is capped at 10k items. It may seem a lot, but if you automate CMS library enrichment you end up consuming them quickly - every item is capped at 30 custom fields. Again, 30 may seem a big number, but if you used conditional display logic, you can quickly consume those 30 custom fields (and there are other small limitations). It's limiting also for advanced blog structures, like affiliate blogs that need comparison tables. - the general development of the platform is incredibly slow. They haven't added relevant features for years! They even removed the client billing features (I wasn't a fan of it, but they said that they removed it so they can focus on more relevant features, while they are not releasing anything!) - some standard components are not accessible according to WCAG, and you have to rebuild them - a lot of basic components are not pre-built, so you have to custom code them

Webflow is easier to use than WordPress

Kommentare: Overall, my experience has been good. I'm learning every week and getting better, faster and as I learn more, everything becomes easier.

Vorteile:

I like the ease of picking a template and customizing it into your website and then going live. Takes one or two days, fairly simple.

Nachteile:

It's complicated when it comes to custom styles and how changes on one page impacts others.

Great product

Vorteile:

Web flow works well and is our preferred platform at https://www.webbydesign.co.nz The flexibility that the platform provides for design is not found in any other platform that competes with Webflow.

Nachteile:

You do need solid understanding of web design to use the tool to its full potential.

Bad support and bugs

Kommentare: In two adjectives: BAD and ANNOYING, I regret it.

Vorteile:

In the beginning, I thought Webflow would really be the tool to help me solve the problems I was hoping to solve, but not, they created new ones that this time, without a website developer around one can't fix it. Then you ask for support help and the answer you get is "it seems you are asking for web development services, we don't offer that, please ask for help in the community". This has happened to me endless times in the last 2 years with LEGIT questions on bugs I found in this tool. I do NOT recommend that you use it or switch from WordPress or something else thinking you are really going to get the next level here, because you are not. I hope this feedback doesn't get canceled or blocked because it is real and can help other people to make their decision.

Nachteile:

Bad support No support for multiple languages Limit to 100 pages (then everything crashes) Bugs!!!!

Best Website Buiilder in the Market

Vorteile:

We rolled a feature on our platform for content creators, which involves building their website for them and webflow was the perfect choice for us to use. The amount of great design templates on the platform as well as the ease to deploy is amazing. Webflow is easy is navigate and the customer support is outstanding.

Nachteile:

The code editor part of the platform can be a bit clumsy as first but will time and contact use, it is easier to use.