When comparing Webflow vs Joomla!, the Slant community recommends Joomla! for most people. In the question“What is the fastest CMS for web content (news website with some static pages) ?” Joomla! is ranked 8th while Webflow is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose Joomla! is:
Joomla allows for heavily customizable templates to be changed from the admin interface without needing to hack.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Best in it's class
Speed & Quality webdesign done in your browser.
Pro Semi-collaborative development support
Webflow allows workload to be shared among multiple users. However, you can't leave comments for them.
Pro W3C-compliant HTML5/CSS3
Webflow generates W3C-compliant markup and stylesheets.
Pro Responsive web design with Bootstrap
Because it's based on Bootstrap, it works across all modern browsers & devices.
Pro Highly customizable templates
Joomla allows for heavily customizable templates to be changed from the admin interface without needing to hack.
Pro Powerful and user-friendly admin interface
Admin interface is constantly being iterated on to remove unnecessary legacy features and to streamline the interface. Resulting in a very clean and easy to understand interface that also offers a wide range of options.
Pro More than 8000 extensions
Which can be found here.
Pro Easy to pick up
Pro Great for social networking and commerce sites
Joomla has both a good native support and a great list of extensions that make creating either a social networking or a commerce site easy.
Cons
Con Based on Bootstrap
Bootstrap is rather old technology
Con Design tool is web-based, not a proper application.
The site doesn't state this explicitly.
Con Can't export your site for deployment unless you pay.
Not unreasonable, but something users should know before investing their time.
Con Uses JavaScript
Webflow uses JavaScript on its websites. Website visitors can have JavaScript disabled and be unwilling to enable it for the website they want to view, which would put a website created with Webflow out of their reach.
Con No way to collaborate on designs with comments
Forum post here.
Con No version control
Forum post here.
Con Fixed media queries
Webflow has four fixed breakpoints (desktop, laptop, mobile landscape & mobile portrait). The inability to set your own media queries can be limiting. If your layout breaks outside of these four options, you have to export the code and write them yourself.
Con Insecure
It's common-place for a Joomla-based website to be defaced, often very quickly. This is most often due to the low quality of extensions.
Con Extensions are scarce, badly maintained & rarely good
If it's not part of the default Joomla installation, quality extensions are rare. Joomla has a extensions library, but it is full of abandoned, dated or bloated components, modules and plugins.