Building the Student Travel Tips Website with Webflow

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Project Overview: The Student Travel Tips website redesign involved transitioning from WordPress to Webflow, building a new site based on a Figma design. The project required a fully customized CMS to manage travel offers and blog content, ensuring the platform remained intuitive for editors while delivering a fresh, responsive design for users.

Development Process:

  1. Understanding the Design Vision:

    • Collaborated closely with the design team to translate the Figma mockups into a functional Webflow website.
    • Ensured all visual elements and interactions were faithfully implemented, maintaining consistency with the original design.

  2. Custom CMS Integration:

    • Created a bespoke CMS within Webflow tailored to handle dynamic content for offers and blog posts.
    • Structured CMS collections with categories, tags, and custom fields to allow editors flexibility in managing content.
    • Implemented filtering and search functionalities to enhance user experience when browsing offers and blogs.

  3. Migration from WordPress:

    • Conducted a content audit to map existing WordPress posts and offers to the new Webflow structure.
    • Used Webflow’s CSV import tools to transfer blog content while ensuring formatting consistency.
    • Rebuilt key pages with updated layouts and features to match the new design, eliminating outdated elements.

  4. Responsive Design:

    • Optimized layouts and interactions across devices, ensuring the site remained responsive and user-friendly on mobile, tablet, and desktop.
    • Incorporated Webflow animations for smooth transitions and engaging visual effects.

  5. Testing and Deployment:

    • Conducted extensive testing to verify that the CMS and site functionality worked as expected.
    • Worked with the hosting team to configure Webflow for live deployment, ensuring minimal downtime during migration.

Challenges:

  • Adapting the static Figma design to Webflow’s CMS while maintaining editor usability.
  • Ensuring the migration from WordPress preserved SEO rankings and traffic.
  • Balancing design fidelity with performance optimization for a smooth user experience.

Results: The new Student Travel Tips website is a modern, scalable platform with a user-friendly CMS for managing offers and blogs. The responsive design and streamlined navigation significantly improved the user experience, while the migration process ensured content and SEO integrity.

Key Features:

  • Fully customized Webflow CMS for dynamic content management.
  • Responsive design with animations and interactions.
  • Enhanced content discoverability through filtering and search.

Tech Stack:

  • Design Tools: Figma
  • Platform: Webflow
  • Migration Tools: CSV import, manual adjustments
  • Hosting: Webflow

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