Introduction
Building a website can seem hard, especially when you do not know where to start. With the right sources of inspiration and design, anyone can learn to build their own site. This article gives you concrete tips for finding sources of inspiration and design that fit your needs, so you can easily build a Webflow site that is both good-looking and functional. Here are our 4 sources of inspiration and design for building a Webflow site in the best conditions.
Sites where you can find design inspiration
Web designers often need inspiration. With so many design choices to make, it becomes hard to come up with original designs for every type of site. Books and magazines offer useful information, but the best ideas often come from other websites. Here are a few good examples of resources web designers can use for their own projects.
1) The first site that stands out, the Webflow Marketplace
The Webflow Marketplace is the ideal place for web professionals looking for resources and tools to get their sites online. Whether you are a designer, a developer or a freelancer looking for design assets, templates, plugins and more, the Webflow Marketplace meets your need. From UI kits and icons to ready-to-use designs and components, you will find what you need to build polished websites faster.
Webflow Marketplace lets you bring powerful tools into the way you work, easily and quickly. With its large library of curated assets, developers quickly find the template that fits their project. All items are also competitively priced, so you do not have to worry about overspending on your design elements. It is the ideal place to find inspiring templates and develop your creativity.
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2) Blush Design
Blush Design is a procedural illustration generator. You can create as many images of all kinds as you like, for free. Its real strength is its collaborative side. You get free access to a library of illustrations by artists from around the world. Tell your own story with free-to-use illustrations, thanks to the collections these artists have created. The tool is a lot of fun, so give it a try. You can use these custom illustrations in your next projects and save valuable time.
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3) Lumen5
Want to energize your video content strategy? In a few minutes, you can create videos for your content marketing and brand building. With artificial intelligence, you can turn the content of a blog post into a video. Starting from scratch would be hard, and you will not need to. Lumen5's artificial intelligence gives you access to a complete content library that can serve as an almost unlimited source of inspiration.
4) And finally Witeboard
Witeboard is an online whiteboard where you can endlessly draw sketches and diagrams of every kind, from any device (desktop, laptop or tablet). You can use it to illustrate your points live during a meeting. Very intuitive, it does not require an account and is as easy to use as the board in your old classroom. You get a 100% free board that you can reuse as often as you like.
In conclusion
These sources of inspiration and design gave us the tools to build a successful Webflow site. From the creative side (colors, images, animations) to the technical side, we now know what it takes to succeed with a site on Webflow. By keeping in mind our user experience goals, content hierarchy, navigation strategy and style guide, we design a Webflow site built to succeed.
You now have that opportunity too. The 4 tools presented here are the most useful in our eyes among many others. Feel free to find new ones (there are thousands) and use them as you see fit.
Good luck with your creative work.
Over to you.