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3 tips for learning Client-First (Webflow)

Published on 
7/11/2022
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Amended on 
27/3/2023
Reading time: 5 min
Screenshot of client-first resources with memoji by Florian
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Florian Bodelot

Co-founder

You want to learn how to develop websites on the no-code tool Webflow with the Client-First method? Here are my 3 tips!

Key points to remember

Reminder: Client-First is the best development methodology for webflow sites. It was thought and created by the Finsweet agency, and is now internationalized with the V2, available in a new language, French.

As an agency, using this development method will greatly improve your clients' satisfaction with your project.

Here are 3 tips, in various learning formats, that will give you the opportunity to find the one that suits you best and therefore learn faster!

  1. Academic reading,
  2. The learn by doing,
  3. Or the video tutorial format!

Do you prefer videos? 🍿

1. Read the Client-First documentation

Extract from the Client-First documentation in French
Excerpt from the Client-First documentation ( Version FR by Digidop)

It may seem long, academic and tedious, but it is necessary! Reading the documentation is a must to understand the whole concept behind Client-First.

There are no rules or best practices. You can read it at your own pace, reread certain pages several times, and focus your reading efforts only on the chapters of your choice.

The documentation remains an essential support, on which you will be able to come back to, if, one day, you have the slightest doubt.

2. Clone and use Client-First templates

Template Client-First V2
Client-First V2 template library

This method is my favorite. It is the essence of "Learn by doing" on webflow. Finsweet has made available in the Made In Webflow, dozens of templates that you can copy for free.

Enjoy it!

Once you have copied the project to your dashboard, open it and see from the inside how each section was built and named.

3. Watch Live Builds of sites

Joe Krug in live build on Webflow
Live Build by Joe Krug

There are many videos on Finsweet's Youtube channel on how to create a weblow site with the Client-First V2 class naming method. It's a very useful method to learn in a playful way by watching experts do it.

Personally, it's a format I like to use at the end of the day. When I'm tired, and want to absorb information fairly easily.

The only problem is that the videos are in English. But, we plan to do more and more live build in French, on webflow with Client-First, on the youtube channel of Digidop this year.

Resources to learn how to use Client-First

Flomodia by Digidop
Coudac project by Digidop
project Heka by DigidopFlaw by project DigidopMorfo project by Digidop