Good question! I have a few methods to keep CSS under control, but the two most important so far for me is to create a style guide page as step number 1, and then create a master components page. I try to avoid subclasses for minor things like margins or padding in favor of pixel separators
I haven’t tried out the nested symbol feature yet but that might help when creating master components that may change from page to page such as heros or content blocks.
Writing in American English for my code and then having to write in English English when out and about.
color and colour always catch me out, I once spent well over an hour trying to figure out why my text colour wasn’t working while deep in a project, turned out I wrote colour and not color… and didn’t notice because it was spelt correctly.
That is my problem too with scope creep. I hate to say no and love to please clients - and it sometimes causes a problem - because I need to make money too.
nested symbols are under the coming up next section. i am confused. did they already ship? i just tested it and got the normal error that symbols can not be nested in each other.
No, you’re right, It’s still underway. But when it does launch, we’d love to hear from y’all on how it works out (we will announce when it launches).
For me it’s the Webflow designer unfortunately. On small sites or landing pages it’s generally not a problem, but as soon as a site grows it frequently becomes unresponsive and unusable. This is destroying my workflow tbh. I raised this issue in the feedback section here.
It works amazing for me! But it’s pure javascript and that tends to be run in your browser single-threaded for a lot of the process (Chrome team is working on that!). That means tools like webflow - or even facebook - will slow down if your machine is not great with single core performance (or slow/too little RAM)
That’s great for you, but not so great for those who suffer through glitchyness so bad that we can’t work. Do you know where Webflow publishes recommended machine specs?
Not sure if they have that. My post wasn’t meant as bragging, just informing
If it helps as a reference, I mainly work on an i7 8700K 32GB RAM machine.
I’m very happy with Webflow, I know what Webflow strives for and also what’s required to build such sophisticated systems
There’s one annoying thing though:
When searching for classes in the style manager tab, —
— the lack of a search function means tediously scrolling though all styles ordered by time of creation.
Just to see where else the class is applied.