Develop organized and maintainable websites that your clients love
Client-First is a set of guidelines and strategies to help us build Webflow websites. Built and managed by Finsweet.
Like thousands of developers, you will love using Client-First
Client-First help us build more efficiently as Webflow developers
Easy to update Style Guide
Create a project organization system to work faster with less effort.
Know how to name your classes
Create clear and specific names for classes.
Folders view of the structures
Folders help us group, search for, and access elements in our project.
Flexible spacing system
Make intelligent spacing decisions inside Client-First.
Unify a build strategy as a team
Creating a project that allows for scalability
New color system using variables
Explore the power of color variables in Webflow for consistency, global changes, and enhanced project organization
Deep Documentation
The most important topics of Client-First.
Intro to Client-First with an overview of the essential principles.
Strategy for how we identify, use, and manage classes inside Webflow as a platform.
Explanation of rem units and approved rem values in Client-First.
Build and maintain a unified typography style system across the project.
Make intelligent spacing decisions inside Client-First.
Learn with Live Builds and our Clonables
Find live builds and Clonables of Client-First.
Learn how the Client-first structure helps to improve productivity in Webflow. In Client-first we follow a structure for our projects and using this structure ensures proper rendering in most sizes.
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.
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!
This is an NFT Marketplace landing page cloneable template.
A custom designed wireframe UI kit, built using the Client-first system for Webflow. With 59 components, and minimal design, it's very easy to build upon and create all sort of websites.
Clean and fully customizable template built using the Client-first system for Webflow.
The community and Client-First
Here's what the Webflow community is saying
Looking into @thatsfinsweet Client First system and realizing that a lot of my ways of naming CSS already matches with it. But so good to see how clean it all is. Will make me go from being like 60% okay to 100% okay when if comes to this stuff.
Ever since I started Webflow, I knew I needed to find the best build methodology out there to optimize my workflow. So I found CF. Besides the many hours saved for me, my team and clients - how good it feels to deliver such high quality digital products - can be just amazing. #CF
I am getting ready to ship this project off to the client. This was a lot of fun to develop, and I love seeing more designers switch to @webflow. I know they’ll be able to manage the site easily after handoff, thanks to the @thatsfinsweet client-first method.
Great stream today @thatsfinsweet. The more I see about Client-first (https://finsweet.com/client-first) the more excited I get to use it.
finally checking out client first by @thatsfinsweet
We're officially making the move to it for all future builds
If you're a @webflow developer, you need to start using @thatsfinsweet client first system for all your projects.It will help you in:-
✓ SEO
✓ Structure of your sections
✓ Scanning through your project
✓ Scalability
✓ Time-saveing
I was lucky to have discovered client first when learning webflow a few months ago. It saved me from building bad websites with no class structures. Thank you for the contribution your team is making to the community
I have used webflow for a long time and nothing has sped up my development process as much as client-first. Simple straightforward and very adaptable. Also instrumental in landing my first agency freelance gig. Thanks @thatsfinsweet
Client-First is accessible enough yet powerful enough that I consider it the single reason I went from amateur to Webflow pro.
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