Today was the first day of the Webflow Conf 2022. Here is a quick summary of the announcements not to be missed!
This is the annual event of the Webflow'sphere. The Webflow Conf. To follow the Webflow Conf 2022 live, two formats are available:
- In physics, in San Francisco, CA
- Streaming on the official Webflow Conf website 🍿
This year, the Digidop team chose to follow the conference remotely, in streaming. And here is the summary of the key points that were discussed during this first day:
The Webflow 2022 Keynote
What an introduction!
After a great introductory video, covering the history of web development (front-end and back-end) since the 90s .... the relay is given to Vlac, Co-founder & CEO of Webflow.
Vlad continues with a nice storytelling about the vision and history of webflow since its beginnings (10 years ago now!).
Then, introduced, the 3 major themes that will be on the agenda.
1. Superpower development (create more!)
New UI : Component
It's official, symbols become components, (like Figma? ) and have new superpowers. For example, it is now possible with components to :
- Customize the texts of your symbols,
- Integrate dynamic data(CMS) inside the components,
- Add conditional visibilities,
Font Variation : Beta
A new feature available directly from the designer interface: Font Variation.
This feature, natively integrated to your Webflow designer, allows you to customize the visual parameters of a font, such as its "weight", in one click.
No need to download and integrate the whole family.
Multi-language CMS
Ooh. This one is important!!! Webflow releases a native functionality to transform your site, into a multilingual site. It is now possible, without additional tools to :
- Create pages with country-specific URLs,
- Customize the title and meta descriptions of your website pages by country,
- Adjust the ALT image tags on each version of your site,
- Connect the API of a translation software
Curious to get Weglot's opinion/response on this. To be continued....
Membership news
Membership 2.0 💪
- Live (Beta completed)
- 20,000 possible users,
- Conditional element visibility by users
2. Superpower collaboration(using Webflow in a team)
Two new features to enhance collaboration on Webflow Workspace
Guest room
Free access to guests on each project
Limited access to certain sites in your workspace
Easily define who can do what on your different webflow sites .
Community
Community is in the DNA of webflow. So what's new for 2022?
Community Grants
10 million dollars will be invested directly with actors of the webflow community, to help them develop the "Webflow Community". The objective?
- Create more community events
- Create more learning levers to master the creation of a website on Webflow
- And many more!
Market Place
It's time ! The webflow apple store is born. Webflow officializes the release of its extension application store, designed specifically for webflow.
- Template
- Plugin integration
The advantage vs Wordpress plugins is obvious: the available applications will be checked and verified by Webflow. This will avoid any security issue, exactly like the Apple Store 😉
To be continued !!!! 🎁
3. Superpowers (create your webflow sites faster!)
Component library
Integration of component libraries directly into your designer! Cc Relume & Finsweet 👋
This feature opens up many opportunities:
- It will be easier to create Webflow sites for beginners,
- You can launch a (side?) component business for Webflow,
- You can develop faster directly from the interface.
Developer Resources
A site that will make the tech' happy 💪 : developers.webflow.com
A database of resources on the webflow API to help and share as much information as possible with developers to go even further in the creation of sites on webflow. Together.
Phew!
So many announcements ! At Digidop, we now have only one hurry : to put our hands in it! 🔥
Find the replay of the Keynote on Youtube 🍿
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