@alexanderwong I think that what Pyeman is saying is that his preference would be to use the tools here but he finds the pricing structure to be too expensive, especially in comparison to other platforms like WordPress. I do see where he is coming from as I’ve disagreed with their pricing several times as well. He does make some good points. I hope they revisit the pricing for the cost of the white-label but I have my suspicion that they will not. So if that is the case, we either suck it up and pay for the more expensive tools here or we don’t use the features that we don’t need (like white-label or CMS) to save money.
I know the webflow team says that we can pass the costs on to our customers, and that is true, but at the same time, there is just so much we can get by with charging the average customer. Not to mention, IMO we could probably charge the same price regardless if we are developing with webflow or WordPress. If anyone thinks that would not be the case, give your thoughts.
With all of that being said… there is still much more to it than all of this. I thought long and hard about whether or not to move away from webflow. And, I’m still here, even after my problems with the pricing. I think we must keep in mind that while we pay more here (and possibly earn less per client) we can design a site from scratch and design it exactly how we envision. I don’t know about any of you, but I can’t do that with WordPress.
Additioanlly, there is less glitches trying to build sites here. Trust me, I’ve used practically every product on the market, and all of them have things I can’t design the way I want and not everything always functions the way it should.
For example, right now I am using Adobe Muse to build my music site.The good news is that Muse has lots of widgets to spruce up the website, like animations, parallax, sliders, video AND audio widgets. And now with the latest pre-lease, it has responsive tools.
However… I have been having one hell of a hair-pulling experience getting my site’s layout to look exactly the way it should, even though Muse has the ability to add breakpoints. Perhaps it will get better after it becomes a proper release, but as of now, I’m having various issues. Now to mention, you have to manually move everything on the page that isn’t laid out properly on every single breakpoint. That could end up being a LOT of work as the site grows.
The bottom line: webflow is more flexible, often saves time, and simply works better but the pricing is a bit of turn off for some. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention: support is superior here. And thus, we really should weigh all of it together.