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Back Alley Bowling

This visual guide will walk you through important responsive web design concepts and how to implement them visually inside Webflow.

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Perfect for any business with 20 or more employees.

Jewel City Bowl

Matador Bowl

NORTHRIDGE, CA

$75/mon

Perfect for any business with 20 or more employees.

try it yourself

Drag this paragraph...

All the features without the limitations. All you can eat. (This is a paragraph element)

TIP: Click and drag the Paragraph element above and drop it under the price on the right. You can also use shortcuts like copy and paste(ctrl+c, ctrl+v), copy while dragging (holding alt), and delete (delete key).

Into the purple block...

Super PLAN

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INFO: This is how HTML and web structure works - elements stack under each other or inside of each other. That’s the best way to build a fluid and responsive website.

#2 LAYOUT ELEMENTS

Basic layout elements

Add elements to your website by clicking on the [ + ] icon in the upper left hand corner. Below are some of the most basic structure elements in web design - sections, containers and columns.

A Section takes up 100% of the width of the browser window if you add it to the Body (the canvas of a website).
It’s great for the big horizontal sections of a website.

Section Element

A Container is a 960px block centered in the middle of the browser. Usually most website content is added inside of a Container so that it’s centered. Containers are usually added to the Body or a Section element.

Container Element

Adding Columns are the fastest way to build a unique website layout. To edit how many columns you want in different devices, just click on the Gear Icon in the top right corner to access element settings.

Responsive Columns

#3 Designing with CSS

Styling your elements

Select an element and add a class in the right style panel (Brush Icon). In this panel you can add text and graphic styles like font color, line height, gradients, borders, shadows, and more. Visual web design is way more fun than coding right?

button design example

Add to Cart ➜

Style it yourself

Button Text ➜

TIP: This button already has a class ”Button” with some basic styles. Select the button and try to add the gradient, border, rounded corners, inside/outside shadows, hover state styles, and transition for the hover styles – all using the style panel.

What you created

Button Text ➜

apply the ‘button’ class

Button Text

TIP: In web design you can apply a class to many elements to make them look the same. Apply the “Button” class that you styled to the link above by clicking the [+] at the top of the Style panel and typing “Button” to find that class.

#4 Layout with CSS

Building web layouts with CSS

Similar to adding style to an element, to change the position of an element first add a class and then edit the position properties. You’ll learn about Margin, Padding, Display, Float, Overflow, and Position.

#5 Style Cascading

Utilizing Cascading Styles

You can easily create variations of an element by adding additional classes on top of each other and adding different styles on those classes. Check out the example below where we have different variations of a button.

#6 media queries

Designing for different devices

In Webflow you first design your website for desktop devices and then make changes on mobile devices (access the Device icons in the top bar). Adding styles in a mobile device will override the desktop styles.