Best build strategies when using Webflow

The Visual Developers Podcast

• 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