CMS and Content

Add to favorites

Use the CMS to populate the content and collaborate with editors on the team

Play video

Build a 3D Site Without Code with Framer

4:06

3D Animation and Text Styles

11:56

Stack and Adaptive Layout

17:06

Components and States

15:33

Top Bar Menu Animation

18:29

Scroll Parallax

22:49

Appear Animation

17:03

Overlay and Forms

17:58

Pages and Breakpoints

16:37

CMS and Content

25:00

CMS Data

Let’s create the data in the background that will be applied to the layout.

Go to the CMS tab and click on Add Collection → New Collection. Rename to Testimonials.
Click on the triple dots icon next to Testimonials and select Edit Fields.
Delete all fields and create new ones: Plain Text fields Name, Job and Text. Image field Avatar.
For avatars, search “face” on Unsplash and pick a well-centered face.

Rachel Nelson
Mobile Developer
Your first book was extremely helpful for me because, like yourself, I also started off as a pixel-pusher and I liked to make things look pretty without thinking too much of how design really functions. Your book has really helped me to fine-tune my skills in design!

Fabio Sasso
Founder of ABDZ
My first iOS app is available on the AppStore. I literally didn’t know anything about SwiftUI (still not much) and in probably 4 weeks was able to recreate my android app for iOS. Highly recommend MengTo videos!

Kenny Chen
UX Designer at Google
I found and bought Design+Code by Meng To which takes you through each step of the process from design to code to app store submission.

Pablo Stanley
Designer at Blush
Meng To's book totally changed my design workflow. It even inspired me to start design workshops and YouTube tutorials.

Testimonials

Let’s apply the data to the layout.

Select Desktop in /components and create a new section.
Set Fill to #440219. Set Layout vertical, Gap 30, Padding 100, 30, 100, 30.
Insert Title (Subtitle) and Text (Footnote).

How students learned from our courses
See what people have learned and built by taking courses from Design+Code.

CMS Component

Go to Insert → CMS Content. Choose Testimonials. Select Reverse.
Select the Post Frame and remove frame (Cmd + Delete).
Select the first item and set stack to vertical. Align left, Gap 12, Padding 20, Radius 30, Border white 10%.
Select the Avatar, set size 44x44, radius 100%.
Set Name to Section Title, Job to Caption 2 white and Text to Footnote white.

Grid Layout

Select the Collections List and set to Grid, width Fill, height Fit, Columns 2, Rows 2.
Set MaxWidth 800, Gap 30.
Select the first item and set height to 400 first, then to Fill.
For iPhone, set Columns to 1.
Select the Section and set Padding to 80, 20, 80, 20, Gap 30.## Updates

Go to Updates and start with the following content:

(Caption 2) 
July 2022 

(Image Fillx300 Radius 20 3D Abstract by Simon Lee)

(Section Title Width Fill) 
Create 3D Site with Spline and React 

(Footnote Width Fill) 
Framer offers built-in analytics to help you gain insight on the performance of your website. These analytics are privacy compatible, live, and accurate. However, in order to gain a more detailed overview of activity within your sites, you may want to consider integrating another tool such as Google Analytics and combine the insights together. 

(Line white 10%)

(Footnote 2) 
What's fixed

Select all elements and create frame. Rename to Update.
Set width Fill, height Fit, Max Width 800, align left, gap 20, padding 30.
Set Fill black 20%, border white 10%, radius 30.
Set Bg Blur 30, Realistic Shadow Y 100 Diffusion 1.

Component

Create the following items:

(Icon Paintbrush 32x32 white)
(Footnote width Fill) Visual Editor in Xcode
(Caption width Fill) Design your layout using the inspector, insert menu and modifiers

Select all items and create frame.
Set width Fill, height Fit, align left, gap 10, padding 30, 20, 30, 20.
Set Fill black 20%, border white 10%, radius 25.
Create component Fix and set the values for Icon, Title, Text.
Duplicate and change content:

(Icon Spade)
Stacks and Spacer
Learn how to use HStack, VStack, ZStack with spacing and alignment

Select both components and create Frame. Set width fill, height fit, direction horizontal, gap 30. On Phone, set direction to vertical.
Select both components and set width Fill.

More Updates

Select Desktop and set gap to 0.
Add a new Section with a black Fill.
Copy the Update frame and paste into this new section. Set width Fill.
Select the section frame and set the width to Fill and height to Fit.
Set direction vertical, gap 50, padding 100, 30, 100, 30. For Phone, set padding 80, 20, 80, 20 and set the Fix components to vertical.
Change the content to:

June 2022
(Image Unsplash 3D Abstract)
Build an Animated App with Rive and SwiftUI
Design and code an iOS app with Rive animated assets, icon animations, custom layouts and interactions

Footer

Let’s finish this course by adding a footer to the site.

Go back to Home and select Desktop. Add a new section called Footer.
Set Layout, Fill to #070818, gap 30, padding 100, 30, 100, 30.

Link Components

Insert Phosphor Icon Stack 30x30 white Duotone and text “Components”.
Select both and create component. Set width and height to Fit, padding 8, 16, 8, 16, radius 10, Fill black 0%.
Create hover and set Fill white 10%.
Set Icon and Title variables.
Duplicate 5 times:

CreditCard - Pricing
Files - Updates
DiscordLogo - Discord
YouTubeLogo - YouTube
InstagramLogo - Instagram

Form

Insert the following items:

(Caption 2) Subscribe to our newsletter
(Mailchimp form)
(Caption width Fill) Product updates, news and promotions. No spam ever.

Select all 3 items and create frame.
Set width Fill, height Fit, Max Width 400, direction vertical, align left, gap 20, padding 20, radius 20, fill black 40%, border white 10%.
Select Mailchimp form and set the width to Fill and Button Fill to #FF524F.

Footer Layout

Select the Footer and set height to Fit, direction vertical.
Select all three Rows and set create frame. Set width Fill, gap 30.
Add a Line 25%x1, Fill white 10%.

Copyright

Create 3 texts in Caption.

Copyright © 2022 DesignCode
Terms
Privacy Policy

Select all three items and create frame.
Set width and height to Fit, gap 30.

Footer Component

Select the Footer and create component.
Add a Variant called Phone.
Set the Wrap to direction vertical and padding to 80, 20, 80, 20.
Select the Links Rows and set the width to Fill.
Select the Links Columns and create Frame. Set width Fill, height Fit, Max Width 400. Select the Columns width to Fill.
Select the Copyright texts and set the direction to vertical.
Finally, copy and paste the Footer component to every page. For Phone, set Variant to Phone.

Embed Component

If you find that loading a 3D asset is too heavy, you can always make it activate on click.

Select the Embed and create component called 3D Asset.
Insert and Image hero-bg.
Insert a Button component, center, Variant 3: “Click to view in 3D”, Icon Cube.
In Variant 1, set the Embed to Visible No, Button to opacity 0.
In Hover, set the Button to opacity 1.
Create Variant 2, set Embed to Visible Yes, Image to Visible No.
Create a Connection on Tap from Variant 1 to Variant 2. Voila!

Conclusion

Finally, our site is done! I hope you had a lot of fun following this course. I have my own template that you can copy into your project and work from there: https://framer.com/projects/new?duplicate=jVScTJ0E7HJdoU7FGIie

We've learned so much about how Framer works, how to work with adaptive layouts, parallax effects, animations as well as creating a fully responsive site with multiple pages, components and CMS data.

I really enjoyed creating this course. I believe that Framer has a magical tool for creating a site that is familiar to a lot of designers who are using Figma and Sketch. I hope this experience is going to encourage you to create your own site. If you create something interesting give me a shout out on Twitter. I hope to see you in the next course!

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Assets

Build a 3D Site Without Code with Framer

Design and publish a responsive site with 3D animation without writing a single line of code

4:06

3D Animation and Text Styles

Make your layout adaptive for desktop, tablet and mobile and apply multiple text styles

11:56

Stack and Adaptive Layout

Learn how to work with Fill, Fit and spacing rules to keep your layout adaptive

17:06

Components and States

Design reusable and interactive components with variables and transitions

15:33

Top Bar Menu Animation

Create a custom hamburger menu with animation, variants and adapted for mobile

18:29

Scroll Parallax

Make an awesome parallax effect with elements moving at different speed

22:49

Appear Animation

Animate an intro with delay when the view appears and apply opacity, offset and 3D transform

17:03

Overlay and Forms

Design a signup modal that transitions over your current UI and add pricing cards to the site

17:58

Pages and Breakpoints

Link your buttons and components to multiple pages of your site

16:37

CMS and Content

Use the CMS to populate the content and collaborate with editors on the team

25:00

Meet the instructor

We all try to be consistent with our way of teaching step-by-step, providing source files and prioritizing design in our courses.

Meng To

I design, code and write

Meng To is the author of Design+Code. Meng started off his career as a self-taught designer from Montreal and eventually traveled around the world for 2 years as his US VISA was denied. During his travels, he wrote a book which now has 35,000 readers.

40 courses - 185 hours

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6 hrs

Build a React Site from Figma to Codux

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2 hrs

Create 3D UI for iOS and visionOS in Spline

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3 hrs

Master No-Code Web Design with Framer

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4 hrs

Build SwiftUI Apps for iOS 17

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4 hrs

Build Beautiful Apps with GPT-4 and Midjourney

Design and develop apps using GPT-4 and Midjourney with prompts for SwiftUI, React, CSS, app concepts, icons, and copywriting

4 hrs

Build SwiftUI apps for iOS 16

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5 hrs

Build a 3D Site Without Code with Framer

Design and publish a responsive site with 3D animation without writing a single line of code

3 hrs

Create 3D Site with Spline and React

Design and code a landing page with an interactive 3D asset using Spline and CodeSandbox

1 hrs

Build an Animated App with Rive and SwiftUI

Design and code an iOS app with Rive animated assets, icon animations, custom layouts and interactions

3 hrs

Build a SwiftUI app for iOS 15 Part 3

Design and code a SwiftUI 3 app with custom layouts, animations and gestures using Xcode 13, SF Symbols 3, Canvas, Concurrency, Searchable and a whole lot more

4 hrs

Build a SwiftUI app for iOS 15 Part 2

Design and code a SwiftUI 3 app with custom layouts, animations and gestures using Xcode 13, SF Symbols 3, Canvas, Concurrency, Searchable and a whole lot more

3 hrs

Build a SwiftUI app for iOS 15

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4 hrs

React Livestreams

Learn how we can use React Hooks to build web apps using libraries, tools, apis and frameworks

4 hrs

Design Founder Livestreams

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2 hrs

SwiftUI Advanced Handbook

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4 hrs

iOS Design Handbook

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2 hrs

SwiftUI Handbook

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4 hrs

UI Design Handbook

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2 hrs

Figma Handbook

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6 hrs

SwiftUI for iOS 14

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3 hrs

SwiftUI Livestreams

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19 hrs

UI Design Livestreams

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26 hrs

UI Design for Developers

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3 hrs

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4 hrs

Build an app with SwiftUI Part 2

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3 hrs

Advanced Prototyping in ProtoPie

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4 hrs

React Native for Designers Part 2

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3 hrs

React Native for Designers

5 hrs

Design System in Figma

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3 hrs

React for Designers

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3 hrs

Swift Advanced

Learn Swift a robust and intuitive programming language created by Apple for building apps for iOS, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch

9 hrs

Learn Swift

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4 hrs

Learn Sketch

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5 hrs

Learn iOS 11 Design

Learn colors, typography and layout for iOS 8

1 hrs

Test your knowledge of Build a 3D Site Without Code with Framer. Complete the course and get perfect results for this test to get your certificate.

CMS and Content

CMS Data

Testimonials

CMS Component

Grid Layout

Component

More Updates

Footer

Link Components

Links

Form

Footer Layout

Copyright

Footer Component

Embed Component

Conclusion

Download source files

Meet the instructor