Have I ever mentioned how amazing Webflow is? This is how amazing it is. 1
Besides the Designer, it has another view called the Editor, which you can access from here. 2
Editor is a place for clients and collaborators to edit the content of the website. And they can do 3
this right on the live site. Literally, on the live site. 4
No ugly content management and text editors. 5
You can just click on the content and start editing. 6
This is so incredibly useful for clients, that I can't even put it in words. Your clients aren't usually 7
tech-savvy and last thing they want to do is figure out how content management systems work. 8
And the last thing you want is your client e-mailing you every time they need some sort of small change 9
in the headline, to remove a comma or add a new word to it. 10
These sort of requests will creep up on you after you have finalized and shipped your project to clients. 11
Well if you're getting paid hourly, that's fine. But if you're getting paid per project, then you are working 12
for free. 13
We cannot change any styles or layout from the editor. That's inside the Designer. Here it's just content 14
be it text, images or links. You can change an image just by clicking on it and uploading a different one. 15
You can also change a link's destination URL or the text. 16
The changes won't be reflected on the live site until you click the publish button. 17
After that, all the changes will go live instantly and it's that simple. 18
And obviously, these changes will be reflected in the designer too. Which we can switch to from here. 19
In case we want to restrict access to some parts of the content from the editor, inside the designer, 20
we can go to the elements setting panel and uncheck "collaborators can edit this element". 21
And now the headline won't be editable inside the editor. Inside the project settings we can add 22
extra collaborators. 23
This is independent from the main account and it's going to give access to the content management 24
of the site. 25
This gives access to the editor to form submissions, page settings, creating new CMS items, 26
like blog posts and so on. 27
So that's the Editor. Quite simple yet powerful. 28
There is nothing that we actually need to do about it. 29
I just wanted to show you around, because I don't usually work with an editor, as... because I work through 30
the Designer. 31
But this is usually something that you, sort of teach your clients. And tell them, 32
"OK, 33
so this is the option and this is how you do it, this is how you edit the pages and so on. Webflow actually 34
has tutorials on the Editor. 35
So sometimes you can just send the video tutorial like that. Or you can record your own video tutorial. 36
Up to you. 37
And that concludes the third and big part of this course, which was about Webflow and development. 38
In the next part we're going to do a full client project. 39
Stick around.