Framer

As a designer, you envision stunning, interactive websites. But often, bringing those designs to life requires a separate development phase, introducing delays and potential disconnects. Framer bridges this gap, offering a powerful design canvas where what you create is the live, high-performing website. It's the no-code platform built specifically for designers, enabling you to turn your ideas into published sites quickly and collaboratively.

Key Features

Framer provides a comprehensive suite of tools to streamline your workflow from concept to launch:

• 🎨 Design Canvas with Publishing Power: Work in an intuitive design environment similar to tools you already know, but with the crucial difference that your design is the actual live website, ready for the web.

• 📱 Side-by-Side Breakpoints: Design and perfect responsive layouts for different screen sizes simultaneously on a freeform canvas, ensuring your site looks great everywhere using familiar auto-layout concepts like Grids and Stacks.

• ✨ No-Code Animations & Effects: Easily add sophisticated interactions like appear effects, text animations, parallax scrolling, and looping effects in seconds to create dynamic and engaging user experiences.

• 📝 Integrated CMS: Design your layouts and populate them directly with content from the built-in CMS, allowing you or your clients to update text, images, and other elements without touching the design canvas.

• 🤝 Real-Time Collaboration: Work together seamlessly with your team on the same project, with changes syncing instantly and custom permissions to manage roles effectively.

• 🚀 Instant Publishing & Hosting: Publish your finished design as a live website in moments on Framer's state-of-the-art global hosting network, with automatic SSL encryption and robust security.

• 📊 Built-in Private Analytics: Understand your site visitors easily with integrated analytics that require no setup, are fully private, and GDPR-compliant.

• 🔍 Full SEO Control: Manage everything from schema markup and sitemaps to redirects and automated SEO rules based on your CMS content, helping your site rank better.

• 🤖 AI-Powered Assistance: Leverage AI tools like Wireframer to quickly generate initial page structures from text prompts, AI Translate to localize your entire site with a click, and AI Plugins for tasks like generating images or rewriting text.

Use Cases

Discover how Framer can transform your web design process:

1. Launching a Portfolio or Personal Site: Quickly design a visually striking personal website or portfolio that showcases your work with dynamic animations and responsive layouts, publishing it instantly to share with the world.

2. Building High-Converting Landing Pages: Create dedicated landing pages for marketing campaigns that feature compelling designs, interactive elements, and a CMS that allows marketing teams to easily update copy or images without needing designer intervention.

3. Developing Client Websites Collaboratively: Work with clients and team members in real-time on a single project, using the CMS for content population and the staging environment for previews and feedback before publishing the final, high-performance site.

Conclusion

Framer empowers designers to move beyond static mockups and build live, production-ready websites directly within a familiar design environment. By integrating design, CMS, collaboration, publishing, and hosting into one intuitive platform, it eliminates handoffs, accelerates your workflow, and allows you to focus on creating exceptional web experiences that perform. It's the smart, efficient way to bring your designs to life on the web.

FAQ

• Do I need to write code to build a website with Framer? No, Framer is a no-code builder. You design visually, and Framer handles the underlying code to publish a live website.

• Can I use my own domain name? Yes, you can easily connect a custom domain to your Framer site. Framer also provides a free .framer.ai domain.

• How does team collaboration work? Teams can work together in real-time on the same project. Changes sync instantly, and you can set specific permissions for different team members.

• Does Framer include hosting? Yes, state-of-the-art global hosting is included with your Framer subscription.

• How is Framer different from a design tool like Figma? While Framer offers a design canvas experience similar to Figma, the key difference is that your Framer design is the actual live website, whereas a Figma design is typically a static image or prototype that requires separate development.