{"id":5410,"date":"2017-11-13T08:03:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2017-11-13T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:03:35","slug":"does-webflow-spell-the-end-of-web-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2017\/does-webflow-spell-the-end-of-web-designers\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Webflow Spell the End of Web Designers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/095.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"33%\" height=\"33%\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/095.png 256w, https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/095-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got this question recently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Love the YouTube channel, I just wondered what your thoughts on Webflow are? Will it spell the end of web development as we know it (coding) or will developers have to adopt a more visual approach to building a website with such as platforms like Webflow? I realise that the system is built for designers, however without the need for a developer on a platform such as this, the code is seminally marked up, they keep increasing the features capability and complexity, I ask the question where do we fit in if platforms like this become very popular?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My answer:<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see it as a threat &#8211; it is a tool.<\/p>\n<p>A big part of modern web design and development goes WAY beyond code:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Site aesthetic design &#8211; pre code design if you will<\/li>\n<li>UX &#8211; making the site EASY to use<\/li>\n<li>Information design \/ architecture, if you will. WHAT to place on the site<\/li>\n<li>Setting up the domain, hosting &#8230; the basic mechanics of it<\/li>\n<li>Tweaking &#8211; I&#8217;ve always found that no matter how good the tool, you will need to know code to tweak it<\/li>\n<li>Then there is consulting on social media strategy, content marketing strategy<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the websites function: do they need an e-commerce setup, wordpress, etc &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So Webflow, if it works as perfectly, can help automate the process and perhaps shift your time allocation (meaning you&#8217;ll write less code,) but you will still have plenty of work to do as a web designer\/developer. <\/p>\n<p>This is nothing new. In the early 2000&#8217;s, we did lots of stuff as web designer \/ developers that we no longer have to do because of better tools &#8230; and it&#8217;s a good thing!<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the tools that come out, it&#8217;s still good to know the code behind the pages and to learn how to put things together, because it will make you life easier as a <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.killervideostore.com\/\">web professional<\/a> and even as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/community\/index.php?\/store\/product\/1-business-battle-plan-premium-subscription\/\">small business owner<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Stef<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/095.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"33%\" height=\"33%\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/095.png 256w, https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/095-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got this question recently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Love the YouTube channel, I just wondered what your thoughts on Webflow are? Will it spell the end of web development as we know it (coding) or will developers have to adopt a more visual approach to building a website with such as platforms like Webflow? I realise that the system is built for designers, however without the need for a developer on a platform such as this, the code is seminally marked up, they keep increasing the features capability and complexity, I ask the question where do we fit in if platforms like this become very popular?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My answer:<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see it as a threat &#8211; it is a tool.<\/p>\n<p>A big part of modern web design and development goes WAY beyond code:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}