Webflow vs Wordpress
Webflow or Wordpress? The decision as to which web builder to use for your website can be tricky, but read on to be better informed as to which website builder you would like to see.
Feb 3, 2024
May 8, 2022
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Webflow
Building a website feels great especially as someone with a background in HTML and CSS. It does take a bit to getting used but once you get past the learning curve it is an amazing tool to use. Custom functionality like sliders and changing numbers and interactivity is also still made possible with JavaScript. Animations are also built in and can integrate with lots of elements!
You can control animations - like hamburger menus - on Webflow so much easier and visually to every last detail. This is so much easier than learning HTML and CSS as you often have to compare how the animation looks each time you change the numbers!
Webflow university is also a pleasure to learn and watch. That has helped with numerous projects. I personally love Webflow to develop complex sites and it relives the college days in building custom made projects. The CMS functionality also allows you to make pages like blogs that has similar page designs but things like the blog article and writing can change between pages.
Before you would have to make a page for each one. Imagine having code for 50 blog pages (yikes!). But with Webflow that isn't an issue thanks to the CMS.
Wordpress
Wordpress is simple and powers about 40% of websites online. If you know what you are doing you can change the CSS and have better customisability of your site. With Wordpress you would have to sort out the hosting yourself and use plugins to manage things like security and performance.
Wordpress usually has Wordpress does have an edge over Webflow though. Wordpress is arguably better for ecommerce functionality especially if you want to have more products. Webflow would charge you more for adding more products, so if you want your website to be solely an ecommerce store then Wordpress is pretty worth it.
Webflow also charge more fees when it comes to ecommerce. Wordpress is an open source platform so scalability is virtually limitless. But it also has a trade off in the sense that you need to know how to maintain it because lots of things can go wrong with plugin updates (especially if they conflict with each other!).
The decision is ultimately up to your needs.