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Client-First is a set of guidelines and strategies to develop organized and maintainable Webflow projects. Built and managed by Finsweet.

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The most used Webflow build convention

Used by people and teams to unify project development

CHALLENGES

Challenges in Webflow

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How do I deliver a project my clients love?

BENEFITS

Like thousands of developers, you will love using Client-First

Client-First help us build more efficiently as Webflow developers

Amazing
benefits

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Easy to update Style Guide

Create a project organization system to work faster with less effort.

All classes you need are ready to use

Easy to style and share with your client

Standardize processes across pages

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Know how to name your classes

Create clear and specific names for classes.

Intuitive naming convention

Component approach

Easy to find classes

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Folders view of the structures

Folders help us group, search for, and access elements in our project.

Organize your project

Easy to find classes through the project

Multi-level folder

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Flexible spacing system

Make intelligent spacing decisions inside Client-First.

Spacing block strategy

Spacing wrapper strategy

CSS Grid strategy

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Unify a build strategy as a team

Creating a project that allows for scalability

Standardize structure shared across all pages

Scalable and easily manageable

Anyone understand the project

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New color system using variables

Explore the power of color variables in Webflow for consistency, global changes, and enhanced project organization

Consistency across the project

Ease of maintenance

Improved readability and organization

Context for usage

EDUCATION

Deep Documentation

The most important topics of Client-First.

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Quick Guide

Intro to Client-First with an overview of the essential principles.

DOCS

Intro

Strategy for how we identify, use, and manage classes inside Webflow as a platform.

DOCS

Utility Classes

Explanation of rem units and approved rem values in Client-First.

DOCS

Typography strategy

Build and maintain a unified typography style system across the project.

DOCS

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Make intelligent spacing decisions inside Client-First.

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EDUCATION

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Video

How to update Client-First V1 to V2

Want to learn how to convert a @Webflow project from Client-First V1 to V2? Watch this tutorial video as Joe Krug updates a V1 template project!

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Video

Class productivity

Learn how to speed up class selection, and deal with long class naming. We will learn some general tips as well as specifically address the Spacing System, classes of the Client-first Style System, the Typography Classes, and Global Classes.

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Live Build 2

PS5 DualSense Wireless Controller page created with Client-first in Webflow.

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Cloneable

Template 7

Clean and fully customizable template built using the Client-First system for Webflow.

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Cloneable

Template 1

Clean and fully customizable template built using the Client-first system for Webflow. It features 10 Static and 1 CMS Pages and can be used for all types of businesses.