Recommendations on building a foundry website

harborb

Hey I am about to try to build my site using Webflow and fondue. anyone here done it before and would be willing to hop on a call and give me any advice before I jump in?

James Puckett

I’m in the process of building mine with Webflow and Fontdue. Some of it is easy, but Webflow recently updated their UI so it doesn’t always resemble the training videos. I’m having to throw a few simple pages together so I can figure out how to get all the CSS classes working. That said, it’s much easier than trying to customize a half-baked Wordpress theme and never being able to get everything working exactly right.

Alanna Munro

I built my site with Fontdue and Webflow last fall. I had a bit of experience with HTML and CSS going into it and so the way Webflow structures things made a lot of sense. There are also a lot of tutorials and forum questions that I relied on when I got stuck.

Fondue integrates nicely, just dropping in little code blocks here and there to put in type testers, cart buttons, etc. The Fondue documentation is pretty clear as well and I found Tom to be very responsive if I got stuck or had a feature request.  

harborb said:

Hey I am about to try to build my site using Webflow and fondue. anyone here done it before and would be willing to hop on a call and give me any advice before I jump in?

Happy to chat more with anyone thinking of putting together this combo.

Matthijs Herzberg

I too am building a new website with Webflow and Fontdue. Don't have much to say about it yet except that I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed, but going at it one step at a time just like how I learned type design. Will report my experience when it is done.

Igor Petrovic

Since recently, Gumroad has become open source:
https://gumroad.gumroad.com/p/gumroad-is-now-open-source

Does this mean that one can take their code for e-commerce solutions and reuse it to code a foundry site?

Thomas Phinney

Yes.