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EPISODE · Sep 17, 2020 · 1H 8M

Best build strategies when using Webflow

from The Visual Developers Podcast · host Ben Parker, Lacey Kesler, Matt Varughese

0:22 - Episode begins 1:09 - Webflow announced the Webflow World Tour Winners 1:19 - Business or E-Commerce Prototype: Zoom Prototype by Sarkis Buniatyan 1:41 - Best Enterprise Solution: Webflow Haypi by Finsweet 5:25 - Best Integration or Add-on: Vivek Shukla 5:56 - Best Social Impact Project: STEAMCycle 6:10 - Best Portfolio or Side Project: The Mountaineer by Amit Patel 6:25 - Best Cloned Project or Use of a Pre-built Template: Shariar Azad Evan 7:23 - Webflow Update: Control font display settings for faster loading 8:25 - Built-in text accessibility contrast checker 9:54 - Cat Noone of Stark (Listen to our episode with her) 10:57 - Webflow listed as one of the top 100 private cloud companies 11:30 - Glide Update: Glide released another course on building your own custom tasks 12:00 - Glide also released the ability to release your own personal app 12:44 - Adalo had a “Make a Clone” challenge 13:47 - Adalo’s Two-Minute Tuesday for the Stopwatch component + Lottie component 14:00 - Minimum Studio 14:28 - Airtable raises $185M and releases 3 huge new features 14:52 - Airtable Automations 15:44 - Airtable Apps 16:12 - Airtable Sync 22:00 - Outseta 23:00 - Stacker has been funded! 25:05 - IFTTT Pro has arrived 26:08 - Notion’s API is coming! They’re hiring a Dev Advocate 26:27 - Notion’s security flaw 28:21 - Integromat responded to Matt’s comment re: Support 28:49 - Parabola 33:38 - EPISODE: Best Build Strategies for Webflow 35:30 - Style Guide 36:40 - Wireframing 37:15 - Understanding what content you’re going to use before you start 38:00 - Sticky notes + building your CMS 39:00 - What are the end goals? 49:50 - Components + CMS 52:00 - Styling responsively 53:00 - Using swatches 54:11 - Biggest mistakes we made 56:20 - Font optimization 57:16 - Webflow Interactions 57:45 - Dialing in your testing 58:05 - Adding internal scripts 58:16 - Fathom Analytics 58:30 - Calling different JS libraries 58:44 - Ben’s pro-tip: Preventing a video from loading on mobile using JS 59:45 - Lazy Load (A Webflow default now) 1:00:08 - Webflow University 1:02:00 - Image Optimizations (TinyPNG, Squoosh App, etc.) 1:02:55 - Use SVGs when you can 1:03:37 - Use thumbnails when possible in the CMS 1:04:00 - Avoid icon fonts 1:04:40 - Clean up unused styles 1:04:58 - Quick Find (CMD + K or CMD + E) 1:05:15 - Webflow 15-sec tutorial on Quick Find

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In this episode, Ben, Matt, and Lacey discuss the no-code round up and the best build strategies they've used while building in Webflow ... as well as some massive mistakes they've made along the way!

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