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25 reviewers had the following to say about Webflow's features:
Pros
Webflow allows you to build a full-featured website with a content management system.
Cons
Webflow has a learning curve that takes up to a week. Pricing, although not high, may be prohibitive for some teams
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Intuitive editing interface that comes with web components and widgets that are easy to use out of the box and/or can be customized to your liking.
Cons
Needs a built-in content management system in order to be considered an all-in-one web publishing platform.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Being able to maintain a site more easily, and constantly add content without breaking it.
Pros
It organizes editing tools optimally by dividing according to the structural content types of a page.
Cons
Typography is key in design, how can I present a final version of a website without the brand typography?
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
With Webflow you do not need to know how to code, you can create websites with static and dynamic content. And it is easy to customize any component.
Pros
The components (tabs, forms, text, etc) are totally customizable as if you were coding.
Cons
The hosting price is higher than other website builders.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
We have already made a few websites with webflow.
Pros
This is so awesome! Such a great platform for web designers.
Cons
The ecommerce part of it still needs a little work done.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
I like the drag and drop UI and the designer feel to create a website.
Cons
I think Webflow is off to a good start but they still have a long ways to go. Not as good as Wordpress or coding yourself.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
very quick neat-looking designs (and the code!)
Pros
Very easy to get started with great templates, quite intuitive UI, you can produce professional websites in minutes, adapts itself very neatly to the user
Cons
the design of the side-bar maybe could be a little bit more clean (bigger buttons, less icons and more descriptions (for beginners)
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
My web design company can afford to support smaller businesses and non-profits, because our overhead is MUCH lower, now that we don't need to hire a development team.
Pros
For designers, it's crucial, because you can design websites and forego hiring a developer to code it.
Cons
While you can integrate all of these features from external plug-ins, it would make the development process much smoother if these functions were native.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Overall webflow gives me super powers that I couldn’t have imagined. My work flows are 10x faster and I can really get work done!
I was surprised at the power at my disposal, particularly adding content and managing styles but was even more impressed at the UI/UX of the editor.
Pros
As the marketing blurb says: Adding new content is as easy as filling out a form.
Cons
Hosting options are kind of confusing. Simplify them, please.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Free Trial
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
If something is not "built-in" as Webflow element, you can always add any custom code you want and integrate your website with any external tool you use.
Pros
- Ease of use, intuitive - Superfast to develop a website from blank page to end website - Interactions – super intuitive - Continuous product updates based on users' feedback - CMS solutions - When hosted on Webflow, website doesn't need your work on updating any part of the code (f.e. to keep compatibility)
Cons
- Lack of built-in localization features (language select) (But can be done other ways) - None, really, I'm a huge fan of this product!
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
The web templates are awesome and the possibility to add custom code is awesome.
Cons
There are too few official VIDEO guides on YouTube or the internet, in general. The users relay on unprofessional videos that are not that useful
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
After using Webflow for some projects I can say that is the best match for: Small to medium-sized projects brochure-ware like or content-driven where your clients want to edit the content themselves, the editor interface is quite good and you can limit what the editor can edit so you won't end up with a broken page and your clients won't be worried about breaking it either.
Pros
Webflow editor simply rocks, some website builders and over simplistic and as I developer I feel chained of it's developers choices.
Cons
The e-commerce feature is a bit raw yet, for example, you can't add an "Add to cart" button out of the single product view, for some use cases that would add an extra click to the interaction.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It's the go-to software my team goes to when in need of a beautifully designed website in a short amount of time!
Pros
- very easy to use and understand; - beautifully designed templates so that your website looks like it's been made by a professional team; - really fast and easy to build an website - you can literally create an outstanding website in a week if not a few days; - cost - you get a lot of benefits just by getting the basic option.
Cons
- limited templates available; - limitations in terms of how you can build the website - there are a few features that are not yet developed and integrated (eg. inserting tables).
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
What I'm finding is that most of my freelance work is for clients who have contracted Devs or a Dev team established and so the biggest feature of Webflow of being able to publish sites directly from design kind of falls through the cracks.
Pros
Being able to have assets and elements export ready is nice.
Cons
Biggest concern for me is that there's no real check to see how the backend of your UI is flowing what you set up on the front end.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
Thoroughly disappointed in the editor.
I have been working with Webflow for about 4 months now and plan to continue using mainly because it performs to my standards, and I feel confident using this software.
Pros
Having done limited work on a website in the past, I pulled up and completed the online training (a 1 hr 55 min video), and within a week, I have feel like a skilled website developer.
Cons
The software is somewhat limited in advanced features and plug-ins for eCommerce have to be added on.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
I'm using Webflow to design my wife's portfolio.
In the end, I was able to go from a high fidelity website mock-up and build it in a modular way for all my different case studies.
Pros
Webflow has allowed me to create a custom portfolio site of my own design without having to restricted to templates or having to dig through code to make small customizations.
Cons
I wish there was the capability to customize the CMS output a bit more, but today it's limited to locked fields and forms. Also, because you can start from scratch, it can be easy to build things in a way that will make it harder for you later on.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
We used a designer to custom code our site and setting it up in Webflow made it very easy to transfer over to me.
Cons
If you're not a web designer, the design features are difficult to use, but I believe this is specific to a custom code site.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
a lot of work still has to be done on it.
Pros
It has also integrated e-commerce functionality and it allows to migrate websites.
Cons
It also has a very limited number of templates.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
I was able to see my designs coded and fix any errors on time.
Pros
I like the UI, which is smilar to Ps, it faciltated me, when I started.
Cons
In fact the user interface can be challenging in the beginning.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Great software to design static webpage and with CMS you can even create dynamic pages in seconds.
Pros
It's so easy to set up Flexbox and it provides some basic common elements such as sliders, nav bars but still customizable. Web animation is also made so much easier.
Cons
I love all the feature Webflow provided but the only thing I can't justify is the pricing for hosting.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Quick way to create websites
Pros
You don't need to learn HTML or CSS, and everything can be done via the browser and the UI.
Cons
Many functions and features are limited just for the paid package. And you get some level of restrictions because you can't code/modify some details.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
