A visual web design tool firmly grounded in web standards and best practices, the Designer translates your design decisions into clean, production-ready HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We built it to enable designers to develop websites in a familiar way — i.e., visually — without sacrificing quality.
If you’re mostly a prototyper, you can use the Designer alone, either sharing the prototype with devs to reproduce, or exporting the code.
But to experience the full power of Webflow, you’ll want to combine the Designer with the CMS and our Hosting.
Like the Designer, the CMS is a code-free web development tool. It has both in-Designer elements (where the site designer works) and on-site elements (where the client and/or content managers work). We call the latter element the Editor, but more on that later.
For now, just know that in the Designer, the CMS lets you structure content types you’ll publish over and over again — like blog posts, product pages, etc. — by combining modular “fields.” Once you’ve created your content types, which we call Collections, you can then use the Designer to determine how Collection items look on the site (like how individual blog posts look).
