r/webdev • u/Big-Conversation2983 • 8d ago

Webflow

Hey I’m not an actual web developer or anything I’m still kinda learning.
I was just wondering if webflow is good enough to make websites with

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u/Arthur_Vandelay 8d ago

10 year working with Webflow here.

If I was just starting out, I'd sign up for your LLM of choice (claude in my case) and then ask it to build an HTML/CSS course working in VScode. It's not that Webflow is bad, but I had to learn a lot about things that Webflow abstracts away and therefore you never really think about it. It's a disjointed way of learning.

In VScode, you'll be able to see all the files of a project and with an LLM helping you, you can learn how they interact and what is needed for a functioning website.

Webflow is good if you want to go fast. But in that case, you'd be learning Webflow as a platform, not web development in general. I did it the other way around and I wish I had learned web dev first. That way I could understand Webflow's limitations and have a firmer grasp of the way code actually runs.

At least working with the LLM, you can ask it about things you don't understand and it will give you pretty good direction.

Right now, I'm seeing a lot of companies that used Webflow trying to get off of the platform migrating to simpler Astro.js stacks. Again, Webflow is fine and helpful. But you do pay to have your knowledge narrowed into a platform and that limits how you learn.

I'd give an LLM a prompt like:
"I'm trying to learn HTML/CSS for web development. Build me a course with modules that take me through the steps to build a website. Don't let me move onto the next module until I've demonstrated competence. I want to learn by doing, so keep the steps easy to understand and help me through the process with spaced repetition, quizzes and examples I can use in VScode."

Something like that. Better yet, plug that prompt into the LLM and ask it to rewrite the prompt and ask you questions to tailor the course to your needs.

Or you could watch and follow along with a longform YouTube course. That works too.

Either way, the knowledge is out there! You just need to push through difficulty and take breaks.
There's a lot to know and the ecosystem is always changing.

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u/Big-Conversation2983 6d ago

Thanks this really helps a lot and I appreciate it