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Webflow by Example

You're reading from   Webflow by Example Design, build, and publish modern websites without writing code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801075398
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ali Rushdan Tariq Ali Rushdan Tariq
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Webflow
2. Chapter 1: Why Webflow FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Web in a Nutshell 4. Chapter 3: Setting Up Your First Project 5. Section 2: Building a Mobile Responsive Landing Page with Webflow
6. Chapter 4: Building Above the Fold 7. Chapter 5: Building the Rest of the Body 8. Chapter 6: Making It Responsive 9. Chapter 7: Introduction to Interactions and Animations 10. Chapter 8: Advanced Interactions 11. Section 3: Building a Dynamic Website with Webflow CMS
12. Chapter 9: Getting Started with Webflow CMS 13. Chapter 10: Creating Your First CMS Project 14. Chapter 11: Creating Collection Pages 15. Chapter 12: Managing CMS Projects 16. Section 4: Additional Topics
17. Chapter 13: Publishing Projects on the Web 18. Chapter 14: Using Webflow Editor to Update Websites 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 9: Getting Started with Webflow CMS

While Webflow is a tremendous tool for building custom and complex responsive static web pages, it can especially shine at building dynamic ones. From blogs to publications, portfolios to product listings, many of the websites you might have used online are dynamic. Specifically, they let administrators or users create, display, and edit the website's content on demand, depending on the nature of the website.

In this chapter, we'll provide a high-level overview of dynamic website creation and how Webflow can help us design and build one for ourselves, again without code. Specifically, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Understanding Content Management Systems (CMSes) and their role in building dynamic content
  • Taking a closer look at Webflow's own CMS solution and how it compares to other ones
  • Getting an overview of and setting up our very own dynamic project, which we'll be building
  • Understanding...
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