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Is Webflow for Developers? My Experience
I can code, but I’m pretty impressed with Webflow, a tool that’s primarily for designers.
The biggest problem with site builders is the code they generate is usually garbage. As I’ve recently discovered, this isn’t the case with Webflow, and although it's marketed as a development tool for designers that can’t code, I (a developer that can code) have started using it on my client's sites, and even for my own agency site.
So why do most site builders suck?
It’s a result of the interface being very different from the way that webpages actually work.
An example is Wix, where you can just drag an element around to position it anywhere on the page. Anyone who codes knows this means it’s using absolute positioning everywhere, which is hard to adjust on different sized devices, and if you adjust on every size, you are producing a huge amount of garbage CSS.
Other site builders just abstract far too much away from the realities of HTML and CSS. They try to make things so easy, that you have no idea what is actually going to be produced.
You also have no visibility of which class names are going to be created. And when you create and then delete something, you don’t know if…
