Webflow gets called a drag-and-drop tool. That description is doing it a disservice. The drag-and...Webflow gets called a drag-and-drop tool. That description is doing it a disservice. The drag-and...
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Webflow gets called a drag-and-drop tool. That description is doing it a disservice. The drag-and-drop is the surface. What's underneath is a full CSS-to-DOM visual editor — every layout decision you make maps to real, clean code. This matters because: Sites built in Webflow are actually faster than most hand-coded sites. No plugin bloat, no theme overhead. The CMS is relational. You can build content structures that would take a developer days to scaffold in a traditional CMS. The editor gives clients the ability to change copy and swap images without touching a single layout element. I've been building in Webflow for four years. It's not a website builder. It's a development environment with a visual interface. What's the biggest misconception you had about Webflow before you used it?
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