Exciting New 2024 Webflow Updates You Need To Know Right Now

Developers and designers constantly seeking more when building websites will definitely be drawn to Webflow. 

If you’re creating sites all day long, no better tool than Webflow can meet your needs, no matter how high they are. 

On the other hand, if you are a business owner, you surely have high expectations from an important part of your marketing hub – your website. 

Here as well, Webflow leads the game, allowing you to experience a new level of presenting your brand online. 

For business owners, developers, and designers Webflow is a fruitful ground for creating websites that move boundaries. 

With such a powerful tool in your hands, your creative vision can come to life easier than ever.

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Webflow Is The Future Of Website-Building

If you use Webflow as a main tool for creating websites, you are at a strategic advantage in your industry. In such a leading position, the sky's the limit when shifting your ideas towards creation. 

But this is not the best part. 

What sets Webflow apart is its constantly improving trajectory, offering more and more to users for a seamless web experience. 

In this change-driven momentum a few months ago Webflow realized brand new updates that will sharpen the way we build websites. 

Despite traditional updates launching on the regular Webflow conference that will happen in October 2024, Webflow representatives wanted to pre-update users about new features.

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9 Webflow Updates You Need To Know About

Some new possibilities are available now, while some are yet to come. 

In both cases, enjoying new Webflow updates, while we wait for new things, puts us in a perfect position to continuously improve our work. 

Let’s sneak peek into Webflow Summer 2024 Releases!

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Composable CMS

Webflow is highly focused on the visual first approach, therefore CMS improvement was first updated in the 2024 Summer release. 

The CMS update referred to a new option of editing content directly in the Designer mode, without going back and forth. 

This way, Webflow users can approach content management with more flexibility, without the CMS panel.

Directly on the visual canvas, you can change the text, replace images, change colors, and more. 

To get this updated even more firmly when you make an edit directly in the designer, Webflow will automatically save the changes, updating the status in the CMS panel as well.

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Component Slots

Next Webflow updates are referred to as component slots. 

Component slots are specific Webflow areas where designers can place their reusable components, making the website building more flexible and customized. 

With this new update, designers and developers can make components with placeholders without specifying what goes into them. 

Just by dropping, both marketers and clients can change components inside slots without changing the design structure.

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Libraries

Hand in hand with component slots, we have Libraries update which is one of the best improvements. 

Webflow representatives introduced a new feature that will allow users to manage components and variables across multiple websites. 

So far components and variables have been manually copied and refigured across projects, but now, you can create and share libraries to get more consistency. 

Once you create a Library within a project other team members can install it on their own projects, making this hub available to multiple websites within the same workspace.

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Site-specific access

Advanced websites you can create with Webflow come along with more control, therefore site-specific access is another recent update. 

Site-specific access was released a few months ago and it will significantly improve roles and permission within the Webflow. With this update, you can allow, restrict, or modify access according to roles and permissions. 

Moreover, Webflow announced that users will soon be able to set default permissions for new websites created within Workspaces. This update enhances role management providing greater security for larger teams and organizations.

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Page building

Page building is one more recent Webflow update that allows less technical users to create new pages more easily. 

This upcoming feature will provide a drag-and-drop interface for users with less expertise, clients, or marketers, for example, allowing them to quickly build brand-oriented pages. 

This opportunity widens the usage of Webflow – designers can set up a page template, and less technical users can drag and drop components and create a page. 

Here, the designer will have full control over the page, so there’s a minimum risk for less technical users to go with this option. As Webflow said, Page Building will be available in private beta in the coming months, with a general release planned later in the year.

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AI Optimization

Webflow does not lag behind the trends, therefore AI Optimization is another released update. In this update, Webflow introduces AI-powered tools for optimizing a site’s performance. 

Here, we can see they mostly focus on testing and personalization, to get refined user experience based on data. With well-established Webflow methodology and AI power, Webflow will for sure provide users with effective optimization, taking the best of both.

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More Webflow Updates

So-called tiny but mighty, Webflow announced more updates that will improve the way we build websites. 

Let’s list them!

• Improved responsive units: Better support for Rem and Em.
• Enhanced ruler and crosshair: More precise design tools.
• Faster canvas navigation: Smoother scrolling and outlining.
• Increased custom code limit: More flexibility for custom code.
• Native style panel enhancements: Overflow support: clip and more box-sizing options.
• Dynamic lightbox support: Connect lightboxes to CMS multi-image fields.
• Automatic WebP conversion: Improved performance with WebP images.
• Rich text enhancements: Nested lists, inline code, and inline code blocks.
• Vertical alignment control: Align-Y options for inline and inline-block elements.
• Better CSS preview: Improved visualization of CSS styles.
• Enhanced translation and branching tools: Improved management for multilingual sites.

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Webflow Marketplace

New things didn’t bypass Webflow Marketplace, so Webflow announced that more than 1200 templates and over 40 new apps have been released. 

With such a significant increase in new template variations, tools, and integrations the best is yet to come. 

Also, Webflow representatives pointed to more marketplace improvements that will enhance searching and installing apps from the Marketplace and App panel.

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Webflow Partner Program Update

Last but not least, we have a Webflow Partner Program update that will improve partnership experiences. 

This update referred to improvements regarding application and certification processes, new tools for managing clients and tracking progress, and an inaugural partner summit. 

Also, Webflow announced a new AI-powered learning assistant that will help users learn Webflow more effectively. 

With real-time answers and advanced search within Webflow University, the learning assistant will be soon available to all users with some extra features for the Enterprise plan.

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Final Thoughts

With all of these updates and more that will come, we can for sure say that Webflow has been working hard to make the website-building experience better than ever. 

With all of these options, Webflow is constantly moving the boundaries, setting the standard in the website-building world. 

This Webflow release for Summer 2024 promises that we can expect more improvements to see at the coming Webflow conference in October 2024. 

By then, we'll enjoy this streamlined website creation, eager to see what the Webflow crew made for us. 

Stay tuned!