Coming from a print design background, I’m used to using InDesign to create layouts visually. There you can zoom out as far as necessary to see your entire design from left to right and—more important for a long page—top to bottom. What you see around your design is called the pasteboard, which most people keep as a medium gray. Is there any way to do that in Webflow? I want to pull back and see my whole home page (where I’m starting) but can’t get the perspective to see how it flows. Thanks for your help!
Welcome,
This function isn’t possible within Webflow. Best bet is to publish the page and take a series of screenshots and stitch them together in Photoshop.
Adding to PoF’s recommendation, most designers who like to work this way do the design work in Figma and then use the Figma-to-Webflow import path when the design is ready.
@memetican While I understand that workflow (and come from design myself) it isn’t really helpful to not be able as a developer to look beyond the borders of the viewport/canvas. Often, the side menus are on top of the sides, or you want to know for sure why and how far eg a wrongly configured box sticks out.
I wouldn’t agree design-minded people should remain in Figma, if that’s what’s implied by WebFlow’s setup. There’s so much simple design easily done on the spot that it’s inefficient bouncing up and down between programs.
NB: there’s the zoom functionality of course, but this is not the same thing: when zooming out, it reduces the size of everything within the canvas, it never reveals whats outside of it.
I think you’re talking about a different paradigm, which is still page-centric but enables work on off-canvas elements. That could be quite useful;
Storing built sections out-of-page for easy access
Building animations that enter and leave the canvas
Building horizontal scrolling sections
Better building of tray elements like slide-in menus and modals
I like that. I lean away from the “one giant pasteboard” approach mostly because I can’t see what it would add and I dislike the performance implications. Figma’s really struggling with that in some of its recent UI updates.
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