Client Handoff: Who Owns the Site, and Who Pays for It
The unglamorous clause that decides whether a finished project stays finished. What transfer actually involves on each platform, and the four things to settle before you quote.
11 SEPT 2026
Drawing register
Every sheet issued so far, newest first. Two are tool reviews carrying a score; the rest are workflow drawings — what moves across from Figma, what the style panel will and will not let you write, and what leaves with the client.
The unglamorous clause that decides whether a finished project stays finished. What transfer actually involves on each platform, and the four things to settle before you quote.
11 SEPT 2026
Arguing about whether the tablet breakpoint is 768 or 810 misses the question. What decides your week is whether the tool cascades, and whether you designed a base to cascade from.
06 SEPT 2026
Every builder now ships variables and components. What separates them is whether the system survives a second person editing it, and whether it can cross from one site to the next.
01 SEPT 2026
Export is the feature that lets you answer a client's portability question honestly — as long as you answer it accurately. What comes out, what stays behind, and what it costs.
27 AUG 2026
Some of the gap between your Figma file and the live page is the browser being a browser. Some of it is the tool rounding your decisions. Learning to tell them apart is the whole skill.
23 AUG 2026
Every builder claims full design control. What they mean varies from a real class cascade to a styling panel with an escape hatch. A working taxonomy, and which one you need.
18 AUG 2026
Framer's paste-from-Figma is the smoothest import in the category, which makes it the easiest to misuse. What to fix in the file first, and where the import stops being help.
13 AUG 2026
The plugin moves geometry. It cannot move a class architecture, and the class architecture is the entire point of building in Webflow. A working method for the handoff, and the parts worth rebuilding on purpose.
08 AUG 2026
Webflow charges for the site and for the account separately, and the feature most designers want lives on the second bill. The arithmetic for four common studio setups, with 2026 figures.
03 AUG 2026
Framer is the most pleasant place a designer can build a website, and the only tool here with no way out. A review of the 2026 plans, the cheaper seats, and what that closure actually costs.
28 JUL 2026
Webflow is the only mainstream builder whose style model a designer can fully predict — and the only one you pay for twice. A review of what the 2026 plan reshuffle actually changed.
22 JUL 2026