5 common mistakes beginners make in Webflow

Webflow is a powerful tool for creating websites, but learning it can be challenging for beginners. In this note, I've compiled a list of the 5 most common mistakes that beginners make and how to avoid them.

1. Incorrect use of classes, combo-classes, and global styles.

The most common mistakes related to classes include using combo-classes instead of regular classes, lack of understanding of proper class naming, and applying an excessive number of combo-classes. Combo-classes should only be used for additional styles (for example, for a light font color in a header), while regular classes should be used for the main styles.

Also, beginners often ignore global styles, which allow you to set general settings for the entire site (fonts, colors, margins, etc.). This leads to a waste of time due to manually formatting each element. Take the time to create a style guide, which includes font styles with their display on different resolutions, margins, colors, button styles, input styles, etc. This will simplify the development process (especially important for multi-page websites).

2. Lack of image and font optimization.

Uploading large images without optimization and using Google Fonts reduces the site's loading speed. Therefore, it is important to compress images and choose the correct format. For raster images, WebP is used, which has a small file size while maintaining good quality, and for vector images, SVG is used.

3. Neglecting the site's structure.

Webflow is a fairly complex tool that inherits the principles of traditional web development with HTML, CSS, and JS. Therefore, it is necessary to keep an eye on the correct website structure, nesting of elements, the correct containers (Section, Container, Div Block), and position the elements properly. Mistakes can lead to problems with setting up responsiveness and wasted time.

4. Non-responsive design

One of the key aspects of modern web design is that design should work across most used devices. Beginners often do not pay enough attention to responsiveness, which can result in "artifacts", such as horizontal scrolling, cropped content, overlapping blocks, text readability issues, and so on.

Additionally, beginners (and not only) often forget to check their sites on different screens and browsers, which can lead to incorrect display of content. Therefore, do not forget to test your projects in popular browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge).

5. Forgetting to clean up unused styles and interactions.

When developing a site in Webflow, users often go through many different class names, unknowingly writing them into the CSS file. This adds weight to the page and can slow down the loading speed. Therefore, follow the rule - once you finish building the project – clean up unused classes and animations.

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By avoiding these mistakes, you will be able to work with Webflow more effectively and easily create scalable websites that will be a breeze to maintain!

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