Next Steps for Developing Your Site: Questions on Freelancers and Exports

I have few questions in regard to the next few steps I need to take to continue developing my site. Complete newbie to your site and I don't write code. I have most of a wireframe built out and have been trying to finetune the elements within the individual components. It seems that exporting into react is the next step in really fine tuning these components, is this correct? For someone without experience and having bought into a subscription for a no code builder, what is the price range I would be looking at to have a freelancer assist with this stage of development? Another question is, if I export a page into figma or webflow, can I still step back and modify the sitemap or wireframe without backtracking the work in figma or webflow?

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Matt J.
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Michael B. I would say that most people export to Figma or Webflow. React is a growing area for us and is also an option but not really the no-code path to go. Webflow has a decent learning curve but it would be the no-code path for sure. Hard to say on the price of having a freelancer build out something - depends on quite a few factors but I would imagine for 1-2 pages the starting point would be $1500 USD and more pages, more dollars. Typically the workflow is to go in one direction - so once you've exported to Figma or Webflow, there is no longer a connection to Relume - so any changes you make don't sync back to Relume. You can make changes in Relume if you wanted, but you'd have to make the same changes or import those pages into Figma or Webflow. Hope that helps!
Michael B.
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Thank You, that does clarify a few things for me. Perhaps you can clarify something else that has me uncertain. I'm trying to create an app that will have three different user base; free, basic and business, each one having their own service benefits. Where are these features separated out from one another? Does this have to be done on the sitemap/ wireframe or is this something I will learn in the plug-ins Figma and Webflow? Do I need to create separate pages for each user base through the sitemap to differentiate their access?
Matt J.
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Michael B. hmm yeah this is pretty advanced stuff. You'll need to use a tool like Outseta or MemberStack or Wized in order to control things like that. You can still use Webflow for the frontend, but you essentially need a backend to handle logins/access. Outseta is my favorite but Relume was built/started with Memberstack - both are great. Wized is an even more advanced way of building web apps using Webflow.
Michael B.
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Thank You, I will look into it.
Michael B.
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Any chance you could give me a brief rundown on what that workflow might be? Can this be done alongside the site map or would I need to backtrack and complete the backend beforehand?
Matt J.
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it would be everything above but at the end - Relume would have nothing to do with the backend - once you've exported the wireframes to Webflow there is no longer any connection to Relume at all and its not really advisable to go back and forth
Matt J.
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so Relume Sitemap > wireframes > Style guide > Export to Figma for design > export to Webflow > Hook up backend
Michael B.
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I appreciate the clarification. It sounds like I might be on the right track. Thank you again. Any chance I could DM when I come across any more beginner hiccups? And is this also the space to seek guidance working through Figma and Webflow?
Matt J.
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Michael B. sure happy to help any way I can. I would say your best bet for the mass majority of your learnings will be Youtube, Webflow University and Figma courses like shiftnudge.com/figma Once you have your bearings with the software and you have specific questions or you've run into a roadblock - certainly feel free to reach out.

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