Like all proper Uncle Bob Clean Code SOLID OOP React best practices 2024 websites, Webflow's website scrolls so badly on my developer workstation that it's hard to see what's going on with their animated parallax bullshit.
Just start banging out some HTML and check it into version control for a simple website. Add styling as needed. Optionally set up website deployment to happen on commit to `main`. Iterate from there. If you're going to have a lot of content for sure, use a static site generator. Solving problems you don't have creates ones you definitely do have.
Oh god, absolutely. It appears that nobody writes straight HTML any more, and yet it’s so freaking easy. Skinning a semantically well formed html5 document with CSS is actually pretty darned easy.
I tried rewriting an absolutely dreadfully written, bastardized version of a bootstrap based static website from scratch. After writing the raw html5 pages, I included a bunch of small CSS files and emulated a CSS Zen Garden methodology. It was all done in a few hours and included some more advanced options like a background video with opacity as the hero image on the front page… and the site went from megabytes (!!!) to just under 200kb (including hero video).
It ran incredibly fast, and super responsive. It was easy to read and debug.
Just start banging out some HTML and check it into version control for a simple website. Add styling as needed. Optionally set up website deployment to happen on commit to `main`. Iterate from there. If you're going to have a lot of content for sure, use a static site generator. Solving problems you don't have creates ones you definitely do have.