You are seeing things from a developer's eyes. Most website builders are not meant for developers.
Site builders have their use. Dev and design time are costly in many ways. Many businesses do not need the level of customization you may think they need. Businesses need the ability to create prototypes to test out business ideas quick and cheap. That's how you should use website builders. There is also a very important benefits for marketing people: free from reliance on developers. The relationship between marketing people and IT guys in many companies is complicated love/hate relationship. Website builders allow marketing people to do things themselves.
Yes,I totally agree with you.But how about in the context of a developer making their own portfolio for example,or a client contracting you for the same?
It depends. Let's say you call yourself a wix, webflow expert, then it makes sense to use the builder for your own website. There are clients who use builders that look for help from developers who know such builders as well.
If you create a site for your client, there are certain advantage of using a builder as well:
It's generally less expensive for them.
It's easier for them to make small changes themselves.
Documents are already available.
Of course, if the site is complex and need features that go beyond what a builder can do then for sure you need to custom code it. However, even in those cases, sometimes it makes sense to use the site builder to create quick prototypes first. If you are familiar with the concept of MVP, then you can see how quick prototypes can help to validate and tweak business concept before real launch.
Even if the site you want to build is complex, you can still use part of the code generated from Webflow. Many big companies are using it for designing/building user interfaces as it saves valuable time to the whole team (both development & marketing).
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You are seeing things from a developer's eyes. Most website builders are not meant for developers.
Site builders have their use. Dev and design time are costly in many ways. Many businesses do not need the level of customization you may think they need. Businesses need the ability to create prototypes to test out business ideas quick and cheap. That's how you should use website builders. There is also a very important benefits for marketing people: free from reliance on developers. The relationship between marketing people and IT guys in many companies is complicated love/hate relationship. Website builders allow marketing people to do things themselves.
Yes,I totally agree with you.But how about in the context of a developer making their own portfolio for example,or a client contracting you for the same?
It depends. Let's say you call yourself a wix, webflow expert, then it makes sense to use the builder for your own website. There are clients who use builders that look for help from developers who know such builders as well.
If you create a site for your client, there are certain advantage of using a builder as well:
Of course, if the site is complex and need features that go beyond what a builder can do then for sure you need to custom code it. However, even in those cases, sometimes it makes sense to use the site builder to create quick prototypes first. If you are familiar with the concept of MVP, then you can see how quick prototypes can help to validate and tweak business concept before real launch.
Even if the site you want to build is complex, you can still use part of the code generated from Webflow. Many big companies are using it for designing/building user interfaces as it saves valuable time to the whole team (both development & marketing).