Jeevachaithanyan Sivanandan

WebFlow - The New Macromedia Flash for the Web

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Well, everyone remember those times, when The Flash enabled websites ruled the internet arena. It was something awesome to see such eyedashing animations across the websites. Of course, it had the cost for installing extra Flash plugin into the web browser but the trade off was worth to watch. As we know, Flash reached its on demise due the corporate issues and its own security issues.

The web has grown into vertical and horizontal at same time. The modern web browsers can handle many levels of animations + interactions + triggers but still require a lot of hand-coding using the JavaScript + CSS utilizing many SVG images.

Then, Enter WebFlow !

It is a simple WYSIWYG editor in a nutshell but power-packed with many arsenal. It helps you to create super interactive and responsive web pages with less work on hand-coding. It supports key frames animation, interpolation, trigger manipulation and more. You can finally export your project into the HTML+CSS+JavaScript package.

The dashboard of WebFlow looks somewhat similar to PhotoShop or Flash but very easy and powerful to utilize the features of it. You will have to maintain a strong basic understanding about the HTML/CSS in order to use the WebFlow since it is just a studio IDE for the aforesaid technologies. But it increases the productivity and possibility of building fantastic interactive websites.

WebFlow Dashboard

You can see the templates here and here some projects you can actually learn. WebFlow also supports to export the projects into WebFlow project format, that you can share with your colleagues, you can work collaboratively !

Try some here.

As we know that the current trend is to make everything work on a web browser, WebFlow is a good tool for that part.