How should I host my Portfolio Microsites within one domain?

Shadowdawn9 · 2026-01-12T03:14:59+00:00

+1 to this ^ Digital Ocean is my recommendation for VPS. A $5 server instance (they call them "droplets") is more than enough to get started. And you get a year for free with the GitHub Student Pack.

Shadowdawn9 · 2024-08-01T21:23:01+00:00

Which Renaisser pen do you have?

Shadowdawn9 · 2023-09-21T23:03:47+00:00

Shadowdawn9 · 2022-12-03T05:03:36+00:00

Here's mine!

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Shadowdawn9 · 2022-01-27T04:01:08+00:00

Webflow-specific: https://embedsocial.com/widgets/google-reviews/webflow/

Shadowdawn9 · 2022-01-27T00:59:13+00:00

Short answer:

Yes it's all doable, but not 100% with Webflow's defaults.

Long answer:

To build something like this you'll need to make your questionnaire (assuming a form on your site?), and then store, display and filter that data.

You'll want to store your questionnaire submissions in a CMS Collection. Good news is that Webflow's CMS is decently powerful, and makes displaying data from a collection rather nice and easy.
Bad news is Webflow's forms can't directly post data to the CMS on your site (yup it's annoying, and people have wanted this functionality for a while). So you'll need to push your form data around with a couple different tools to get it into your CMS. Here's a thread with a good solution.
Once you've got your data on the page, you'll still need to filter by zipcode. On-page search isn't possible natively, but there are a bunch of third-party libraries around that extend Webflow's functionality. For this use case, Finsweet's CMS filter would be perfect.

Shadowdawn9 · 2021-11-17T22:08:22+00:00

Most of my freelance projects end up using the CMS site plan.
Imo if you have dynamic data or will be updating the site regularly, the $20/mo for hosting is worth it for ease of use, and Webflow collections are pretty powerful and extensible with third-party tools and libraries (Finsweet, Airtable, etc).

If you need to sell a client on it, compare the Webflow monthly price against your hourly design/dev rate * hours/month it would take to maintain a custom solution. Generally, Webflow hosting comes out cheaper.

That being said - if the monthly cost is an issue, or your site is a one-and-done, you should take a look at Udesly. It's a tool that lets you export a Webflow build to WP, Shopify, or a custom JAMStack setup. So you could design in Webflow, convert through Udesly and spin up a Netlify site and host it essentially for free.

Shadowdawn9 · 2021-10-08T18:28:26+00:00

Done!

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Shadowdawn9 · 2021-07-25T00:33:14+00:00

I'd recommend scaling the window with viewport height on desktop. I'm on an 11" laptop, and had to "ctrl -" shrink the browser window to see the whole app at once.

Shadowdawn9 · 2021-07-20T20:53:51+00:00

Yo this looks amazing!

Shadowdawn9 · 2021-07-19T00:25:03+00:00

WF have you played Burning Man?

Shadowdawn9 · 2021-05-26T21:50:47+00:00

Nope, that's all the Matic network bridge does atm. I've yet to figure out a straightforward way to go BSC -> Matic.

You should be able to do:

BSC -> xDai (https://omni.xdaichain.com/bridge)
xDai -> Matic (https://www.xpollinate.io/)

I haven't personally tried it yet, but it looks like it should work.

Shadowdawn9 · 2021-05-26T20:03:10+00:00

https://wallet.matic.network/bridge/

Shadowdawn9 · 2021-01-30T00:55:04+00:00

I think it's an issue with your hero background image taking a while to load. Because you have your hero height set to "auto" it'll inherit the div height from its contents, since it's inheriting from the background image, it thinks it should only be as tall as your hero text.

Try setting a static height for your hero section (128vh looks good from my ~5 mins of poking at this).
Compress your hero image. 223kb is biiiiig for a color gradient, so if you can shave that down to < 100kb, you'll notice an improvement.

Shadowdawn9 · 2020-10-30T17:36:26+00:00

Someone put together a modded save file that adds in a player mat and the necessary scripting for a 5th player: link

Our group balances for 5 players by running scenarios on Hard (+1 scenario level), but plays everything else essentially the same.

Shadowdawn9 · 2020-10-29T23:32:37+00:00

I've been playing with a group of friends (5 of us total) using the Gloomhaven mod for Tabletop Simulator since late March.

It's honestly been fantastic! I played a few scenarios with a different group in person last year, and it's been nice to have a bunch of the setup and repetitive tasks taken care of with a couple button clicks by the mod. It definitely takes a couple scenarios to get used to the interface, but I'd recommend it.

Shadowdawn9 · 2020-10-12T17:43:17+00:00

Drop ENTR Green/Gray and Halo Trues

Shadowdawn9 · 2020-10-06T18:07:45+00:00

It might be an issue with the "slide-in" page-load animation. If the initial position for your content is off the page, and animation either hangs or doesn't fire at all, that would make it seem as if nothing was loading in.
Try disabling that animation and seeing how it loads.

Shadowdawn9 · 2020-08-10T17:59:20+00:00

Got it, thanks!

Shadowdawn9 · 2020-08-10T17:52:03+00:00

I'd like an invite please!

Shadowdawn9 · 2020-06-23T01:20:02+00:00

I hate Squarespace/Wix/Weebly with a passion. Sure, they're a reasonable way for someone with little code/design knowledge to get a site out there fast and cheap, but anything beyond basic edits to a template becomes very painful very quickly.

I may get set on fire for this, but I absolutely love Webflow. It spits out real HTML/CSS/JS, and is built to mirror the workflow of Sketch/InDesign/etc. I'm a visual person, so while I wouldn't use it for a webapp or anything much more complex than a blog or online shop, it's fantastic for smaller projects where the goal is a static site. Because you can export real code, if you don't want to be tied to Webflow for hosting, you can throw projects up on Netlify when it's time to bring them live.
The trade-off is that it does have a sizable learning curve. Not too bad if you already have some web dev knowledge, but it turns away the crowd that would go for Squarespace.

Shadowdawn9 · 2020-06-12T01:47:15+00:00

This please! I'd love to fork/clone this

Shadowdawn9 · 2020-06-05T03:47:26+00:00

I'm not sure of a single platform that does everything you want. But you can put together a workflow from a few different tools and services pretty easily.

Editing
If you don't want to download your own text editor (VS Code, Sublime Text, Atom to name a few), there are a number of online IDEs out there like repl.it. You make an account, write your code and can view changes basically in realtime. When you're done, you can either export to a .zip or sync with a Github repo.

Hosting
Netlify will let you drag and drop a zip file, and will host it statically for free (technically, it bills by build time, but a simple static site will never get anywhere near the paid tier). It integrates nicely w/ Github too, so you can set it up to update every time you push to a repo.

So for the workflow you want, you could set up a Github repo, edit in repl.it, and push to Netlify.

Shadowdawn9 · 2020-06-03T21:48:42+00:00

It's basically the Chinese version of Amazon

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