We've also heard from hundreds of proficient coders who use Webflow regularly to accelerate their workflow (seriously, who wants to remember the exact syntax of a CSS radial gradient?). It has been life changing for thousands of designers who don't have a coding background. Webflow is in a similar category - we're just now beginning to scratch the surface to help non-technical people harness the power of the open web platform. Over the years, these tools improved to where today it makes very little sense to build your own CMS or blogging engine from scratch. But despite those complaints, these tools opened up the power of personal publishing to hundreds of millions of people, many orders of magnitude more than the maybe tens of thousands who were publishing their thoughts online previously (because they happened to know the right mix of HTML, CSS, and FTP skills). Some people "hated" Blogger, Wordpress, Movable Type, etc - because at first they were so limited and you could do so much more if you were a programmer building everything from scratch. The point of Webflow is to start unlocking that ability for those who may not be that skilled in writing code, or are starting from zero.ġ5 years ago, there was plenty of similar language about blog publishing tools. You'd be surprised to know that a paltry 0.25% of the world's population knows how to code, which means the other 99.75% don't have the kind of power that you might. Webflow's mission is to give people the power to build the future of the web, and for us "people" is defined as all people, not just developers who know how to write code. I'm the founder of Webflow, and it stings a bit to see that sort of title on top of DN :| In conclusion, I'd like to end it with a quote: ‘Our AI systems must do what we want them to do,’ - Steven Hawking Though this is referring to artificial intelligence, I think this can be applied here. These programs should help you and guide you down the right way, and every time I look at one of these, I feel like I did the first time I had Dreamweaver put in from of me, but I was able to do it myself, learn myself and Dreamweaver may not be the best program for coding but it auto-completed things for me, closed my tags, showed me more options in my css and ultimately helped me better my coding skills. I just feel like these programs are trying to control too much. I want to be able to say, yeah.all that code, came from a certain sequence of keyboard presses, from my brain! I'm awesome! If Webflow were to help me with that, that would be better. In Webflows case, you can't edit your generated code (unless you download it), which is not how I like things. Putting blocks onto a page and creating interactions with clicks just seems unnatural. I love writing raw code, and seeing it all come to life is where I get my kick from, these programs just seem artificial in a sense. There is a constant battle to have the latest technologies implemented and I just see it eventually falling behind. I do think Webflow is one of the best solutions out there, but I just don't see how these types of programs will ever work. I'm not sure if i'm alone here, but I don't like these types of programs and here's why:
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