1. Webflow lets you work with code visually, in a familiar UI

While code ninjas can practically see a website come to life from their lines of code, most designers have, well, a harder time with that. Even when they know enough code to be “dangerous.”

Thankfully, Webflow does the translation work for you, so you can work in your wheelhouse: the visual world. You just drag our cleanly coded, fully responsive HTML elements on to the canvas, drop them where you want them, and style them using familiar visual tools. So instead of writing a few lines of code, saving, and refreshing your browser, you get instant, visual feedback, so you can work that much faster.

Which means you don’t have to worry whether you got your CSS syntax right. Or if what you’re trying to do is even possible for the web. Or stare at a code editor all day.

2. Prototypes > mockups

If your team is still producing static mocks in Photoshop, then handing them off to your clients or stakeholders for review … well, it’s time to consider a new workflow.

Producing pixel-perfect static mocks for a variety of screen sizes, dimensions, and orientations eats up tons of time. And clients and stakeholders alike often have a tough time envisioning those static mockups becoming live, dynamic websites. Especially when it comes to interactions.

Now imagine sending your clients and stakeholders not static mockups, not hackily linked screens, but fully functional, live websites. Websites they can play around with on their desktops, tablets, and phones. Websites where they can click a link and watch your brilliant page-switching animation actually happen. Websites filled not with lorem ipsum, but actual content.

With Webflow, you can do all that. And so much more.

3. Webflow makes responsive design 10x easier

Remember the last time you mocked up a responsive website? How about that feeling you got when, after days of painstaking ideation and iteration, you realized:

Now I have to do it all over again for the tablet design.

And then, yet again, for smartphone in landscape.

And then, yet again, for smartphone in portrait.

Yeah. No fun, right?

Now, imagine finishing out your desktop design, then clicking a single button to reveal an already-complete reflow of your design for tablet. And smartphone landscape. And smartphone portrait.

And imagine knowing that you weren’t stuck with those reflows. That you could tweak those device-specific designs to highlight different content for smartphone users.

4. Webflow makes it way easier to illustrate your interaction ideas

Chances are, you’ve had some brilliant interaction and animation ideas in your design career. And that you’ve tried to capture how they’d look and feel by switching Photoshop layers on and off, making videos or GIFs, or even trying to bend Keynote to your will. Maybe you even hacked someone else’s JavaScript to achieve the desired effect.

With Webflow, you can leave those days behind. Build your interactions and animations using the same tool you use for the rest of your web design work — without coding, making GIFs, or explaining your vision to a developer.

And when you’re ready for feedback on those interactions, your clients and stakeholders can actually experience them. So it’s that much easier for them to see what you’re thinking.

5. Webflow CMS lets you design hundreds of pages at once

If you’ve ever designed for a CMS, you know you only have to create 1 design for your blog posts.

But when you’re creating that single blog post design, do you fill it up with lorem ipsum; big, beautiful images; and inspirational blockquotes courtesy of Steve Jobs? Or do you design with real content, straight from the keyboards and smartphones of real users?

If you’ve done the latter, you know how valuable building your sites using real content can be. With real content, you:

• Build real empathy with your users
• Identify what types of content they actually create, instead of what you think they create
• Quickly pick up on edge cases
• Design for the content, instead of expecting the content to conform to your design
• Notice opportunities for custom designs — after all, not every blog post has to look the same

6. Webflow bridges the design-development gap

If you work with developers to bring your designs to life, you know how difficult and time-consuming that collaboration can be. With you designing static mockups and your developers coding them to match, it’s like you’re constantly starting from scratch. And that’s without all the rounds of feedback and compromise.

But with Webflow, you’re not designing pixels or vectors — you’re designing real HTML and CSS. Which means that you can click a button and hand your devs a clean, semantic version of your design that’s already code. No translation needed.

Even if they need to make tweaks to make it work with your company’s systems or style standards, it’s quite the kickstart.

7. Webflow bridges the design-content gap

Though far less talked about than the design-development gap, the gap between design and content is often just as yawningly vast and difficult to bridge. (As a lifelong content guy, I know whereof I speak.)

There are tons of reasons for this, but these two rank among the most daunting (and common):

• Designers tend to outnumber content creators (by a lot). There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with this imbalance, but it does mean that writers tend to be constantly swamped. So instead of working in parallel, design tends to pull ahead of content. Leaving us content people with the unenviable task of fitting our words into layouts we had no opportunity to influence.
• Content people often lack tools to directly affect designs. When we see a ridiculous typo on the homepage, our only recourse tends to be filing a bug. And hoping a dev cares enough (or has the bandwidth) to make a change. We desperately want to make the change, but often have no way to get it done.

Webflow CMS helps overcome these challenges by empowering writers, editors, and marketers to instantly update content across websites. Not to mention create and edit landing pages (based on your templates) without needing design or development help.

8. Webflow makes landing page creation a breeze

Designers on marketing teams inevitably end up spending a lot of time designing landing pages, handing them off to dev, then reviewing the coded results. And even more time lending a hand in tweaking and optimizing landing pages for tests.

Webflow streamlines that process by letting you create Team Templates—shared site designs you can clone with a click, then tweak as needed. And if all that’s needed is a few copy or image changes, you can just publish the page and hand it off to your content editor to update via the CMS.

You could also create a Landing Pages Collection, allowing content editors to create and tweak landing pages by themselves. No design or development dependencies necessary.

9. More design consistency and speed with Team Templates

Beyond landing pages, Team Templates also offer design teams an amazing tool for building a design style guide.

Easily capture typographic styles, icon guidelines, color palettes, logo standards—every aspect of your visual brand you expect. Your team can even create canonical styles of interactive objects like tabs, dropdowns, forms, sliders, etc., and save them as Symbols.

That way, when a designer kicks off a new project, they can simply clone the style guide, delete elements they don’t need, and — BAM! — produce a consistent design. Plus, with UI elements saved as Symbols, it’s relatively easy to make brand style updates: just edit one instance of the Symbol and every other instance will update to match. Magic.

10. Webflow’s Designer and CMS update automatically

Here at Webflow, we’re constantly working on bugfixes, UX refinements, new features, and other improvements. And you don’t have to do a thing to benefit.

Far cry from the worlds of WordPress and Adobe, eh?

11. Automatic site backups (versioning) and staging URLs

If you’ve used Photoshop — like, at all — you know what a drag losing your work can be. And it only gets worse once you’ve moved your work to the web.

That’s why Webflow automatically creates a backup version of your site every 20th autosave, or any time you press Shift + ⌘ + S on Mac or Shift + Ctrl + S on Windows. If you ever need to revert a change (whether due to a bug or a waffling client), restoring a backup only takes a click.

Webflow also gives you the option to publish changes to a staging URL (yoursiteURLhere.webflow.io) so you can test functionality and review content before you push to the live site. No more broken websites.

And that’s just the beginning

We could go on. But we’d rather hear your favorite reasons for getting your team up and running on Webflow — so let us know on Twitter!