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Next Steps for Launching My Website on Webflow

Avatar of Hugo E.Hugo E.
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Quick one. I’m going to tag a few people in the slack who have been helpful so far. Matt J. Miguel. My website is essentially done. Fully designed. My next step would be to upload it into webflow, configure the buttons, page pathways, and then buy a domain and publish, correct? Then I’ve successfully designed and built the website

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    Matt J.
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    Hugo E. uuuh well....maybe I should let Miguel deliver the bad news and be the bad guy eh?

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    Matt J.
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    ah its pretty early morning for him actually....

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    Matt J.
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    naw its all good, I'll take the bullet here - Miguel is too nice of a guy to be the bad guy!

  • Avatar of Matt J.
    Matt J.
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    So yeah, unfortunately there is no magic button to "upload to webflow". When you import your Relume project into Webflow, you are going to essentially only be uploading a bunch of pages in a more wireframe style, maybe some sections will have images or some schemes will be applied - but any styling changes, content changes, etc you've made in Figma will not just upload to Webflow. 😞

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    Miguel
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    Miguel
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    What Matt J. said…

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    Hugo E.
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    Wow, is that so 💔

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    Hugo E.
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    Okay it’s not the end of the world. My website is simple: black background, white text, purple buttons. And I changed the size of some of the images on the wireframe because they weren’t to my liking. That shouldn’t be difficult to replicate in webflow right?

  • Avatar of Hugo E.
    Hugo E.
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    And may I ask, what the point of me designing in Figma was then? Not mad or anything, it doesn’t help, just want to understand the workflow more

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    Matt J.
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    Hugo E. no worries - appreciate the opportunity to explain a bit more. I wouldn't think replicating your design would be too difficult, as you said. So there's a couple of reasons, and I don't fully know your background or your goals, but the Relume site builder (as you may have noticed) is a bit limited (by design) in its editing abilities, so in some cases, importing your screens into Figma helps with that. For me personally, as a professional web designer for 20 years, I would bring my Relume wireframes into Figma to add an extra layer of polish, finalize content and details, and I would use Figma as my new source of truth of those changes and get approval from clients in the various stages. Once I have approval of the sitemap (move to wireframes), once I have approval of the wireframes (move to design), once I have approval of the design concepts (move to development). It saves a lot of headache and back and forth if you have a defined process - mostly around setting an expectation for the client - and its far easier to make changes within Figma than within any development tool (generally).

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    Miguel
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    Hugo E. as I suggested earlier, find someone to help you out. I’m sure there are people in this community willing to do the site for free to add to their portfolio and to practice. AI has fooled a lot of people thinking there’s a magic button for everything. That may be the case of some products, but it’s certainly not the case with Webflow, or any web design tools that are worth it. Sorry buddy.

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    Hugo E.
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    Thank you once again, Miguel Matt J., you’ve been lots of help. I’ll leave you two for now