Style panel & UI changes
While the lead up to Webflow Ecommerce’s launch saw a lot of ecommerce-specific releases, we also made some UI changes to the Designer that are worth noting.
Style panel redesign
Beta began January 16th
After months of using a redesigned style panel internally, we rolled out the change out for everyone using Webflow — first in beta behind a toggle, and then permanently to everyone after March 16th. For more on the changes and what drove them, read our announcement post from January.
Position: sticky
Released January 16th
The new style panel was more than just a reskinning of the UI, though — it also introduced several new features, perhaps most notably the addition of position: sticky to the positioning panel. So now you can fix elements at a certain position on scroll without writing custom code.
Cleaned up navigator
Released January 17th
Alongside the changes to the style panel, we tightened up the navigator to make it more legible, especially for complex pages with a lot of nested elements.
Smaller updates
Adobe font API keys per-project
Released February 11th
Based on your feedback, we pushed an update that allows you to set Adobe Font API keys on a per-project basis, allowing for greater flexibility when it comes to letting clients own and control their own fonts.
Google Optimize integration
Released February 21st
Running A/B tests on your Webflow sites also got easier last month, thanks to our new integration with Google Optimize.
Annual client billing support
Released March 21
Finally, we extended support for Client Billing to annually paid site plans, making it easier to make sure you don’t have to front the cost of hosting for client work.
What’s coming next
Major updates and improvements to grid
We’re following up on our initial release of CSS grid by adding support for nearly all of the CSS grid spec. This means the addition of autoflow support and grid template areas, which will open up tons of new possibilities and power when it comes to changing layouts across breakpoints.
Ecommerce updates
As our official release post outlines, we’ve still got lots of work happening on the ecommerce front. Here’s a couple features planned for release soon:
- Checkout with PayPal. Giving customers the option to checkout with PayPal remains at the top of our list for additions to Webflow Ecommerce, and we’re hard at work on making this a reality.
- Non-shippable goods. As a first step toward support for digital goods, we’ll introduce the option to mark products as “non-shippable,” which will allow for the sale of non-physical products like consulting services, online courses, and more.
Integrate Lottie animations with Webflow interactions
When we did custom development work to integrate a Lottie driven animation on our ecommerce announcement page (the intro animation is the Lottie part), we had the idea of building a native support for this workflow as well.
After months of experimenting and some technical proof of concepts, we’re doing just that — so soon you’ll be able to take animations built in After Effects, export them with the Bodymovin plugin, and trigger them on your Webflow site with interactions.
Multi-image field for CMS and ecommerce
We’re gearing up for the release of a new “multi-image field” in the CMS that will unlock more flexibility around using images in dynamic designs. The first iteration of the multi-image field will allow you to populate a gallery of images on collection and product page templates, followed by the full integration of the multi-image field with Webflow lightboxes, and eventually a new gallery component.
Make your voice heard
That’s it for now! If you have specific features you want to see, check out the Webflow wishlist and submit new ideas or vote on what’s already there. Aside from helping us gauge demand and find customers to ask for further research, you’ll also get an email alert when we ship something you’ve voted on.
