There's a Huge GAP in Web Design. This tool needs to exist
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-- I've been thinking about this for awhile now, thoughts? Is there a tool like this being built? Let's think.
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This video came at the right time. I was talking with a friend exactly about this.
I build at least 3 websites a week, and there in fact is a gap.
I have a lot of freedom using just html, css, and js (gsap). But it takes a lot of time, repetition, and iteration, and I feel like lots of times I am building the same project over and over again.
Framer is clean, it's fast, it's cheap, it's easy to use, but it's hard to add functionality beyond just design.
Webflow is just too expensive and doesn't give you anything special.
The only solution I've found is to just use html css js, and if my clients need a little more power, I convert it into a wp theme. I don't like wp, but I have been forced to use it for the last four years. I know many designers hate it, but be honest, most of your clients know about wordpress and are familiar with the interface, they don't know framer nor webflow, and in the end you gotta use what the marker demands.
When pricing and CMS is taken into consideration WP is the current gap filler in reality. And there is headless WP, I don't know if people are using it or not for small projects.
Where do u get leads?
You are describing WordPress my friend.
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Not really
Remember Addifect-it's the tool that bridges the gap!
He means the end product should be just like a real website with front end, (next js, React). Wordpress is bad for scalability, the structure of code is different. it uses lots of plugins and other things)
@@ares0aoram We had this in 1998: Microsoft Frontpage.
I actually started working on something like that as a side project, but dropped it at some point. My idea was to have the code on one side and the drag-and-drop UI builder on the other side and you should be able to mix and match. Write the code see the live changes in UI, drag the new button see the code update in real life. I’m more of a dev actually so my design sucks but it was an interesting project.
That was called Dreamweaver lol
@ yes, exactly. I just miss it :)
What you propose is not the same thing like a wp press builder like Divi?
So you want Dreamweaver back again? ;)
isn't dreamweaver still around?
I’m doing your UI/UX course and I think I can recognise your voice from anywhere at this point 🤣
Thanks for this video ❤❤❤❤
hey i learnt how to create and clone almost any kind of website using these no code tools now i need to learn the animations and interaction to make those static designs into breathable websites!
4:00 This sounds like what Dreamweaver was trying to accomplish back in the day before Adobe went to a subscription model.
I've read the long post on Reddit about the Framer pricing. I'm okay with the basic pricing, but like many others frustrated by the weird additional pricing of extra seats, languages etc, and weird limitations like the amount of collection lists. If this gets more in line for freelancers I'm happy to pay a bit more then a WordPress/pure code website that only needs hosting as a recurrent expense.
Webflow is the solid choice currently, because you can export all of the code. Every UX/UI designer needs to know how to code in order to be able to communicate with front-end development teams. My future choice will be RIVE.
There are several things you can't do with Webflow. It's not great for data manipulation, even a simple form using the CMS system can be challenging. And let's not even mention the difficulty of inserting data into a CMS collection or a simple user log in option.
@@cisseibrahima8964 Agreed, but for most designers using it, they aren't creating a log in system with a database handshake and then passing into an admin back-end. At that level of development you are either your own front-end developer using PHP, React, Angular, etc. or you are working with a front-end dev team taking over that data and security transition. But otherwise, yes it is good to note and be reminded of Webflow's limitations toward more complicated applications.
tools like lovable and bolt will be the future. and they already are. if you have set up your project structure in advance you can step by step build the app. it works perfectly.
Flash days, were good days.
Wordpress with the built-in Full Site Editing. Maybe add in more Javascript fx and it will do everything you're talking about.
Indeed.. let's build it...
Hello, thank you.
I learned html in 5th grade and then in highschool(2nd year highschool) so this just confirmed that I need to learn new languages. Particularly python.
Im a fine arts degree holder haha
Give it a try to any WordPress web builder then, it's a good idea on paper, worked with it for a while in one company, but I'd rather code haha. Basic blocks should be as basic and universal as possible so you won't need to "break" the code after when you try to design something more unique using them. It was a headache to overwrite all the CSS and JS. But it was a really good tool to make a sketch for a client to figure out his wishes. It really has future but it should be designed for web devs to use, not end users as all of them are.
i think if software is released, people would just pirate it and then majority of the population would just use the pirated version
I am SE too, I am on the same page with you. If anyone interested , I would like to be also the part of the team, who can build this tool.
First we can build something like a opensource model,
So anyone can download that opensource, and contribute to that and add some values and make them available on subscription based model.
I agree.
Dreamweaver making a come back 🤣🤣
make a demo design for it
that's gonna be a gigantic project
based on what you said, I'm thinking something similar to Wordpress or rather Elementor but more robust and with better and a unified UI, it can be something built with Javascript or something using web assembly and one of the low level languages (C#, Rust...etc)
if it's up to me, it should be completely open source, and everybody can contribute via Git
this would be amazing
we need to make a group
make the entire backend ecosystem with rust for amazing performance and have the front end code either with react/vue or even rust frontend using webassembly
I will make a tweet about this and refer you to it
Unfortunately greed has made Software as a Service (online subscription based) the default business strategy.
On the other hand, I think companies underestimate just how much they could dominate the entire space with a singe payment self hosted software.
It's called Addifect, and it's coming soon!💻
Hey Gary, I just sent you a detailed email about the tool. Looking forward to your reply!
@ Which email did you send to?
Love your vids
It's better this tool doesn't exist so we can continue to warn a living in front end development.
penpot is basically this
Breakdance or Oxygen. I strongly suggest Breakdance at the moment.
What about grapesjs?
Codux is pretty solid but has its own issues, as well.
its called wordpress
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Remember Addifect-it's the tool that bridges the gap!
@@LayoutAlchemy What's this tool about?
A friend of mine works with a low code called bubbles, its freemium, but when you see the source code is IMPOSSIBLE to understand
Maybe Blocs?
Yes blocs is a great app.
And the CMS would be what? As others have mentioned, Divi, Bricks et al for WP already do what you're describing. I get that they are tied to WordPress but a CMS is needed for many sites. So this would somehow have to be included.
Additionally, your first point about hand-coding and animating is only true for some. Many devs have the tooling and capability to build sites as fast as they can be built in Webflow or Framer. This includes animations. And as you well know, Webflow and Framer have fairly limited animation capability compared to what GSAP can do. Simple timelines take little time in GSAP. Complex stuff requires GSAP, Rive etc.
I'd like to see the setups/tooling you're referring to for those who deal in hand coding stuff like GSAP/threejs. Can you elaborate on that a bit more?
It would be cool to take a top framer developer and a top hand coding developer and have them take on the task of bringing to life an interactive/animated landing page to see just how long it takes them.
Sorry this simply not true as I can have a site up in minutes with Framer compared to hand coding. Also Framer isn’t limited at all with animation. They had Framer Motion before moving into being a site builder. Also Framer has had a Rive integration since 2022
I’m building something similar.
hit me up in the discord
Dreamweaver, but it's probably outdated these days.
You can try NEXT😅
I guess you can also use actual AI power tools, like cursor, to both own the code and mostly AI generate it and ask any and all questions on it.
I just want one button, one click and it does everything.
Won't happen for anything beyond cookie-cutter use cases. Like, a simple dashboard or a simple app.
There is one it’s Wordpress and it’s sh***
I know this is unrelated but give the Quran a read
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