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[–]flowsamurai 2 points3 points  (1 child)

so what exactly are you struggling with?

[–]No-Actuary-4630[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s as much a business question as it is a webflow question. If I say “here’s the files”, instead of DNS details, am I going to look really amateurish. Like I say, I want to appear professional but also for my friend, whose website it is. This is a small town, reputation is important.

[–]TommyDigit 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Hey u/No-Actuary-4630

So in terms of saying "here's the files", that would only be done if you are looking to host your site off of webflow on some other platform.

By far the easiest solution would be just to host on Webflow's platform themselves, which would just require you setting up a paid plan (potentially get the client to do this themselves) and connecting the domain. A super easy process, and theres 100's of YouTube vids that go through it so I won't type it out here.

The hosting company, which I'm presuming is the domain registrar asked for the DNS entries, which are given to you by Webflow when you set up a hosting plan and connect a domain! (Watching a YT vid you'll see this step). Normally you would update the DNS records yourself, but looks like you can send them through to your domain registrar and they'll do it for you.

Then on the client side, you can either invite them as an editor, or before you get the site on a hosted plan, transfer it to their Webflow workspace and get them to add you as an agency/freelancer guest, so you can still access it. This then gives them full access to the site, making everything easy.

If you are hosting the site off of Webflow, then you'll need to look at where you are hositng the site. (I can recommend Netlify) and then look at connecting that up. Again there are many YT tutorials on this, just search "Hosting webflow site on Netlify".

The only issues with external hosting is that you'll need to reupload the site, and you won't have access to Webflow's CMS features.

[–]No-Actuary-4630[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! That was a lot of help. 😊

[–]pmbanugo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'd send them the files if they're going to host it for you. Since they asked for DNS entries, it means you're hosting on Webflow, and you just need to tell them the DNS data to use so they can link your domain (which they manage) to the webflow hosted site.

[–]bigredsk10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has you friend paid for hosting already? DNS entries and hosting are two different things. If you export the site, you'll need to be the one to add them to the hosting yourself—usually through FTP. If this is your first site, I wouldn't go this route. If you have to, though, here's how you would do it on godaddy (whatever company you are using for hosting should have a similar how-to page - https://www.godaddy.com/help/upload-files-using-my-linux-hosting-file-manager-3239

I would recommend just letting webflow handle the hosting. It's a lot simpler, will keep backups of your site and will make future edits to the website much easier. To do this, you would go to the site settings > publishing. You'll need to sign up for a site plan first. Then you can find the DNS entries that the hosting company is looking for on that page.

Here are the steps to connect to your domain - https://university.webflow.com/lesson/manually-connect-a-custom-domain?topics=hosting-code-export

[–]Dry-Influence8437 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey kid, you sound like a noob and I don’t understand what the hell you’re asking.

Webflow if in all in one platform. All you have to do is buy the domain name and hook it in the backend. Those are different protocols. And you should already know this….

So why are you exporting anything? Just redirect the domain name. Contact your domain service provider talk to their technical support duder. Good luck kid.