Webflow is a visual design tool and user-friendly content management system. In our agency, we use it for layout design and rapid project launches.
In 2023, Atman was certified by Webflow in the following areas: CMS, Layouts Level 01, Layouts Level 02, Webflow 101, Webflow Experts Certification. Learn more about certification.
Details
Webflow offers extensive functionality:
- Visual Editor: Drag-and-drop interface with complete control over layout, styles, and responsiveness.
- Dynamic Content: Built-in CMS for managing blogs, products, portfolios, and other data.
- E-commerce: Creation of catalogs, shopping carts, integration with PayPal, Stripe, and shipping systems.
- Animations and Interactions: Setup of complex animations, parallax effects, and user interaction responses without coding.
- SEO Tools: Manual meta tag management, canonical URLs, automatic sitemap generation.
- Hosting and Security: Fast cloud hosting with SSL, CDN, and DDoS protection.
- Code Export: Ability to download ready HTML/CSS/JS for transfer to another hosting.
- Integrations: Connection with Google Analytics, Mailchimp, Zapier, REST API for external services.
Use Cases:
- Corporate Websites: Development of presentation sites with responsive design and CMS for content updates.
- Landing Pages: Quick creation of single-page websites with animations and lead capture forms.
- E-commerce: Launch of small and medium online stores with product and order management.
- Blogs and Media Resources: Publication of articles, videos, and news with category and tag support.
- Portfolios: Visually rich pages for designers, photographers, and creative studios.
- Prototyping: Creation of interactive mockups for testing ideas before full development.
Potential Drawbacks:
- Cost: Higher than basic builders (Wix, Squarespace), especially for e-commerce.
- Learning Curve: Requires understanding of web design basics (like box model), which might discourage beginners.
- Scale Limitations: Not suitable for large e-commerce sites (like Shopify) or complex web applications.
- Platform Dependency: Exported code loses connection with CMS and dynamic functions.
- Limited Backend: No custom server-side logic capabilities, unlike WordPress with plugins.
- Support: No live chat in plans below Enterprise, making quick problem resolution more difficult.
Atman Expertise
Quick Launch
Knowledge of the “Designer” mode and the presence of code patterns for helps us to launch websites on Webflow in a short time. This is convenient if there is a hard deadline.
Integrations & Migrations to Other CMS
We have successful experience in transferring the layout, functionality and database from Webflow to WordPress, Bitrix, PHP frameworks, Python, Tilda. Depending on the circumstances, we can offer quick transfer options that take from 3 working days.
Webflow & Redash — Real-Time Analytics
Consistency in Design & Layouts
We develop design layouts systematically through style guides and components, simultaneously describing the rules for layout and preserving the integrity of the original concept. We transfer the system of colors, fonts and components to the layout. We are actively reusing the ready-made system in the development of the project after launch.
Knowledge Base for Customers
If we work with the project for a long time, we create a knowledge base and share instructions and video lessons with the client.
Basic SEO & Analytics Included
By default, we specify H1 and meta headings, meta descriptions, an image for social networks (og:image), alt texts for images for the site pages. We use semantic tags in the layout (section, article, header, footer, nav). We connect analytics and technical monitoring services: Yandex.Metrica, Yandex.Webmaster and /or their analogues in Google.
Technical Excellence
We use the capabilities of Webflow to speed up and optimize sites: we minify code, raster and vector images. If there are forms on the site, we will organize a captcha, a cookie bar and a privacy policy page.