I am working on my first project in Webflow - it’s an online magazine. Feel a bit lost…
I want to have unique designs for different articles: different text layouts, pictures aligned differently and so on. But can’t find a good advise how to do it.
Would really appreciate any help: experience/examples/tutorials - anything
Webflow CMS creates a template for every collection you create, the thing with that it’s precisely that, that it’s a template and every item will be presented in the same way. Now, that doesn’t mean everything is lost here because I see a couple of solutions for this:
Create different two or three styles for the same element and switch those style using the element Switch on your project
Pros: You can get different designs populated in your templates and you can activate those styles whenever you want.
Cons: You’re stuck at the end to the number of designs you create and it’s not suitable if you want to have many different styles.
Use static pages for your articles and design how they look individually
Pros: You have full control of the design of every article and you can create as many as you want
Cons: You wouldn’t be able to use the CMS for this and every article would take the a considerable amount of design time.
Pre-design part of your articles and use it as images in your project.
Pros: You can design everything you want and however you like and you have full control of the presentation
Cons: It wouldn’t be the best for responsive design, you have to design everything outside Webflow and you wont be able to change information if you add important data to those images unless you modify the ‘external’ design.
I think that there are more options to consider but I think these 3 can give you an idea of what you can do.
I have the last question - still thinking about work around
I was thinking, is that possible to create a few different collections with a few styles of articles, but link them to one grid on the main page and sort by the newest?
Or 2 collection can’t be connected to one grid?
And is it possible to mix in one grid static and dynamic elements? So some articles will be static and some from CMS?