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Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

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Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

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How does this compare to Macaw: http://macaw.co/

We love Macaw, and the early preview looks amazing! Can't wait to play with the final version. That said, it looks like it is much more similar to Adobe Edge Reflow, but with a more intuitive interface. With Webflow, we're looking to build a more comprehensive hosted platform that allows designers to create production websites and actually deploy them live. Down the line, this means that content management, functiona…

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Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We love Macaw, and the early preview looks amazing! Can't wait to play with the final version. That said, it looks like it is much more similar to Adobe Edge Reflow, but with a more intuitive interface. With Webflow, we're looking to build a more comprehensive hosted platform that allows designers to create production websites and actually deploy them live. Down the line, this means that content management, functiona…

Your product is really awesome, but it sounds like you are going down a bad path. Playing around with it, I love how it is a good replacement for photoshop, built with the web in mind (classes are crucial so that I don't have to go and change every element every time I make a small change). Haven't used it on a real project yet, but I am planning to. At that point I will probably export out the design and then finish…

Great point. "Down the line" is quite relative, by the way. Right now, we are very fanatical about improving our designer interface, and we'll see where things go from there.

Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

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post #17

Firefox (19.0.2) shows this error on the demo page "This browser does not have native cryptography support :("

hmm.. I get "Your browser is too small. Please resize your window to fit this media query." in the demo Chrome 29/Opera 12.14

Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

#24
This isn't your father's PageMill.

It always seemed that this should be the logical way to go, but for some reason I've never really seen these things stick around (at least in my personal experience). Is it a matter of chasing trends/technology?

Looks slick. I owe it to myself to give it a whirl and keep an eye on its adoption.

Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

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I'm a designer and developer - love the idea of both WebFlow and Macaw are up to. I can see how this can be a huge time saver for me on the front-end - even if just another level of high-fidelity mockups (vs. production). I find it really hard to justify dropping the money and then my time if I'm working through a web-based cloud service though (vs. a desktop app - even like the ones that call home like Creative Clou…

This is a massive, massive concern for us. We're an agency. We can't trust software like this for something as fundamental as our creative mockups.

Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

#27

I'm a designer and developer - love the idea of both WebFlow and Macaw are up to. I can see how this can be a huge time saver for me on the front-end - even if just another level of high-fidelity mockups (vs. production). I find it really hard to justify dropping the money and then my time if I'm working through a web-based cloud service though (vs. a desktop app - even like the ones that call home like Creative Clou…

I totally agree, personally, I would still use a product like this but store exports of each site design in git.

worse case scenario you have to go back to hand coding.

Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

#28
What I really want to see out of one of these apps is a way to support partials within other pages. It would be awesome to design my whole SPA within a tool like this and then export it in a uniformed way which I could then tie into angular, ember, a cms or whatever workflow I am using.

Personally I don't want the design tool to make those assumptions around what my infrastructure might be, although clearly this particular tool is aimed at non-tech users.

Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

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post #17

Firefox (19.0.2) shows this error on the demo page "This browser does not have native cryptography support :("

hmm.. I get "Your browser is too small. Please resize your window to fit this media query." in the demo Chrome 29/Opera 12.14

Just zoom out in your browser - Ctrl minus on Windows or Command minus on Mac...

Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

#30

I'm a designer and developer - love the idea of both WebFlow and Macaw are up to. I can see how this can be a huge time saver for me on the front-end - even if just another level of high-fidelity mockups (vs. production). I find it really hard to justify dropping the money and then my time if I'm working through a web-based cloud service though (vs. a desktop app - even like the ones that call home like Creative Clou…

This is a massive, massive concern for us. We're an agency. We can't trust software like this for something as fundamental as our creative mockups.

We totally understand you concerns, however, the output of your creative work on Webflow is still the standards of the internet: HTML+CSS. As such, you aren't committing to a a resource file by using Webflow, as you would be if you were to use Flash/ColdFusion, whose outputs are proprietary.
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