Welcome to the Webflow Forum, introduce yourself!

Welcome, there’s definitely a learning curve here and it could be frustrating sometimes but the payoff is worth it =)

I would suggest taking time and go through the videos at webflow university starting from the top.
https://university.webflow.com/category/introduction

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got sign up. i m new here.

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Greetings everyone. Introducing myself:

My name is Gilson, own a small design office in Brazil. I’m new on Webflow, but I’m loving it right now! I came to Webflow after one of our back-end programmers quit. After years of trying Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento and Laravel, none of them was a great solution for us, a company built by designers, not programers.

So far we built 2 Webflow sites for our clients, but I’m hopping we would build so much more.

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Hello, my name is Amit and I’m from Israel. I live in a city called Petach Tikva, about 10 minutes from Tel Aviv.
I own a small digital studio called DigitalMind (DigitalMind.co.il) that creates awesome learnings and corporate communication :blush:
I built our landing page using Muse… Hopefully, we’ll be able to create great stuff with webflow.
Looking forward…

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Hi all. I`m Andrei and looking forward to getting involved in this community :smiley:

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Hello Webflow-ers,

my name is Keiran, from New Zealand. Have an interest in most things tech. Currently upskilling to learn Web design / development. Looked at other website builders (WordPress, Joomla etc…), but was drawn to Webflow after looking at all the resources made available to learn about webdesign, development and how to use Webflow as a great tool to make it all happen. The community looks to be very friendly, engaged and supportive. In time I hope to also contribute in some way.

At present I’m stumbling my way through creating my first site with Webflow.

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Hi everybody,

I’m Max from France. I’ve been working in the movie/TV industry for several years as a camera technician on set, video editor and motion designer.

I discovered the development/coding world a few month ago and took a huge turn, going down this path now. Learning everyday with awesome people (including this community) who are fulfilling my craving for brain teasing games.

Found Webflow on my way and got addicted to many of its features. Playing with interactions and perspective way too much :rofl: (motion design side effect)

I still have a lot to learn with coding but Webflow made me able to start living from this activity and launched my first client website in a matter of month. https://www.vuparunartiste.com/ 100% Webflow brewed.

I love all the inspiring projects on this community (special mention to @Waldo for your 3D setups).

Looking forward to share knowledges with all of you and a big Bravo to the Webflow development team.

Max

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Woohoo! Welcome to the Webflow Community @Maximosaurus :smile: please feel free to reach out any time! We’re here to help! And let me know if I need to make some of those 3D projects cloneable :wink:

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Hey everyone!

My name’s Bart and I’m a Senior QA at Webflow. Some of you might recognize me from the forums ever since Webflow was in closed beta. Started my journey with this amazing tool back in July 2013.

For the first few months I’ve been playing around with Webflow just to help people on the forums get through their projects and creative ideas. I used to post a lot (I mean it… a lot!) of JavaScript code that I was learning purely to help people on the forums. Within few months I was called JavaScript Ninja by some of you and somehow I managed to hold this title for quite a while :smiley:

I was no expert about JS, definitely not. But I was an expert on Webflow and how to push it even further than what was possible at that time. I even once applied for the job as a Support Team member, but sent it too late - that day @cyberdave landed that position. Believe it or not, I was so stoked for him joining Webflow Team! He was a real viking on the forums helping people out and I knew he fits this position better than I would. Heck, he’s still doing amazing job at helping some of you in the personal inquiries!

(remember to insert glorious viking image here)

In the Christmas break of 2013 I jumped into freelancing with my first project and continued to do that (very successfully) for almost 2 years until I got an offer to join Webflow Team as a Quality Assurance. I was so happy :smiley: Ever since September 2015 I am a part of this amazing team. I had a chance to watch fantastic people I knew from this very forum join the team to build the future of web development - building a bridge between designers and developers. Giving a tool for creative people to push their imagination onto code-less designed websites. We saw websites built in Webflow getting AWWWARDS :heart_eyes:

I couldn’t be more happy to be where I am right now. I’ve met amazing people so far and I see amazing people in the community. You, gals and guys, are what drives us towards building Webflow. You made all of that possible by your continuous support.

This community is freaking awesome :heart:

Thank you all for being here. I’m pleased to work with you! :slight_smile:
Cheers,
Bart

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Awesome story @bart :slightly_smiling_face:

Fixed this for you btw:

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Hi all,

I am a video editor with some graphic design experience. (photoshop, indesign), not a web designer at all.
After designed one website by Wix for my own company I was looking for alternatives because wasn’t satisfied with Wix.
Nowadays there are many alternatives of Wix but I think Webflow is really outstanding so wasn’t a question for me I would choose these one for my “web-designer journey”.
WebFlow gives us unlimited freedom of creativity without any coding, it is awesome!
And also I really like the WebFlow designer UI, fallen love immediately.
It is simple, elegant with dark theme so professional as well.

I wish I had more time to learn WebFlow, I am already addicted.

Thank you for being in this community.
And congrats for WebFlow development team!

Cheers,
Imre

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My name is Erwin Blom from Amsterdam. I’m obsessed by the democratisation of everything :wink: So ‘no code’ is an interesting thing. The belief and promise that everyone can build stuff without technological knowledge. But let’s face it, it is a promise too. I love Webflow for example, but it helps people a lot that know how to do stuff. Like Bubble wins programmers time. Because they understand the way of working and the language.
But … hey I’m not here to complain. I’ve started and did get great help from this forum and like the concept of cms-s to build stuff. Will dive deeper in Webflow!

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Woohoo! Welcome to the Webflow Community @Maximosaurus

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Hi everyone! M name is Tj, I am new to webflow but digging in and getting my hands dirty, I live in Maryland. I have been working in the web field for 26 years. I have degrees in CS as well as Art & Design as well as several Certifications.

I glued to my computer screen most of the day either doing a digital drawing on my iPad, rendering a zbrush model or writing some php. I am also a computer nerd and avid gamer… R6 Siege for the win lol.

I havent got projects in webflow but I am working on 3 as of now and when they launch I will make them view-able to the public.

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Hi everyone - I’m Laura, a Web & Graphic Designer from Perth, Western Australia. I mainly work with clients such as nonprofits, social enterprises and small businesses that are doing good. Currently I’m working on a website for a dance theatre in CAL.l using Webflow!

I have been playing around with Webflow for a while now but have recently now started using it for my own freelance clients. Previously I’ve mainly worked with Wordpress.

I don’t have my own portfolio site on Webflow yet, but if you want to take a look anyway: www.lauraniebel.com

Looking forward to chat with u all and contribute to the forum discussions. I speak English and German, so feel free to reach out to me In either of these languages! :grinning:

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Hi everyone, thank you for welcoming me into the Forum. My name is Darren, I run a small business in Ireland specialising in Photography & Video, flying drones commercially and have as much fun as I can while doing it. I also design and maintain a number of web sites and was using Muse for several years. With the changes that are coming ref Muse, I decided now is a good time to look around and see what else is out there. I came across WebFlow and I have to say I really love it. There are some things that I have issues with but through this forum I hope to get some work-a-rounds. Thanks again for allowing mw into this knowledgebase community and I look forward to contributing in any way that I can. Thank You

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Hello All - my name is Matt…glad to be here! My response here is a bit longer form, as I wanted to leave a response that might resonate with others who come across it and have been on a similar journey and who are considering Webflow.

I’ve been trying out Webflow for a few months and I really love it. I have been learning how to build sites by hand over the last year or so around a full time job, and have been on the self-taught track for learning HTML, CSS, Javascript, while also dipping into learn PHP and Twig, plus all the other dev-things like Git/Github, the circus involved in setting up a local dev environment, trying all the IDEs and text editors, experimenting with deployment tools, checking out different kinds of hosting, and trying out a bunch of different CMSs including Wordpress, Craft, Grav, Kirby, Processwire, and the like. It’s kinda amazing the endless amount of tools, apps, languages, methods, frameworks, and buzzwords that seem to crop up almost weekly that you have to keep up with if you want to do front end dev as a coder. Even seasoned developers will often admit it’s really hard to keep up, and they’d hate to be starting out now with the overwhelming amount of stuff you are expected to learn and sift through. For fun, I recently quickly sketched out a sort of mental map of all the stuff that’s filled my head, time, and energy while pursuing the self-taught web dev route. This isn’t everything, but you get the idea. You can imagine Webflow being a welcome and refreshing discovery after all this lol.

I find myself at a critical juncture where I could either go down the path of digging deeper into the developer side of things, or I could focus more on using a tool like Webflow and learning more about UX/UI and design. I have a background in fine arts, photography, and communications…and I feel as comfortable in Illustrator, InDesign or Photoshop as I do at the command line or writing out HTML and CSS by hand. All of that is to say that I find Webflow to be a unique synthesis of all those things…it is certainly visual and designer friendly, but it’s also a useful and wonderful tool for those more versed in the coding side of things and whose brains have been conditioned by learning to build that way.

There have been some adjustments for me, however…like retraining my brain to design from large screens downward to mobile instead of a ‘mobile first’ approach, and working with CSS classes ‘visually’ has been a fun adjustment. For me, the next really amazing feature that will seal the deal with using Webflow will be the introduction of CSS grid, which I have grown very fond of and feel is absolutely essential to modern web design. Plus, once you get the hang of the concept, it makes designing a real joy and opens up many possibilities that were previously quite frankly a pain in the ass to achieve, or required some kind of hackathon workaround.

I’ve been struck at the awesomeness of Webflow features such as the ease of using the ‘staging’ and ‘production’ versions of a project, the ease of hosting and all the features and benefits that come with it, and simple things like being able to share the editor view of your project with others while troubleshooting. I’m impressed with the responsiveness of the WF team and the features they are working on, so looks like good things to come. The tutorial documentation and videos are outstanding - and thank you thank you for including a sense of humor in the videos…that makes the learning process so much more enjoyable! The Webflow community is very generous and helpful. I look forward to really learning Webflow, and following all my fellow WFers in this community and the great work you are doing.

Cheers,
Matt

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Hear, hear :grinning: Been there. Even after 5 years of use I often think about how hard and time consuming my current project would be if I had to do it by hand.

Cheers

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Hello everyone,

So glad to join! The fresh and clean style of this community really impressed me when I first came across.
I am an editor working with VPSrobots, a great tool aims at helping more webmasters and developers with more economical hosting solutions.
I also runs my own blog after work and host it by myself using our app, though I don’t know much about codes and Linux knowledge.
Anyway, I would be a humble learner here and thank you ahead of time for all the sharings!

Cheers
Jim

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Hey everyone,

Nice to meet you:) I am new to Webflow but I already fall in Love with the tool its amazing and it’s a lot of fun to do Webdesign with the tool. Currently I am working on my Portfolio with Webflow and a client project.

Greets chris

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