Try Framer: Interactive Product Demo
Walk through an interactive demo of Framer, a no-code website builder where you design and publish responsive sites from a single visual canvas. See how the editor, CMS, and publishing flow work without installing anything or writing code.
What is Framer?
Framer is a no-code website builder where you design and publish a site from a visual canvas, the same way you'd work in a design tool. It started life as a prototyping app for product designers. Over the last few years it grew into a full website builder, and that design-tool heritage still shows in how the editor behaves.
You build pages by placing text, images, and components directly on the canvas, then set how each element reshapes across desktop, tablet, and phone. A built-in CMS handles repeating content like blog posts or case studies, so you're not rebuilding the same layout for every entry. Framer also ships a deep library of animations and scroll effects that you apply by adjusting settings rather than writing code. When you publish, the site goes live on Framer's own hosting and CDN, which means there's no separate deploy step and no server to keep running.
There's an AI layer too. You can describe a page in plain language and have Framer generate a starting layout and copy, then refine it by hand from there. For teams that want a faster start, the template gallery covers landing pages, portfolios, blogs, and full marketing sites. And because Framer supports custom code and third-party embeds, you can drop interactive content like a Supademo straight into a page when a static screenshot won't do the job.
How to get started with Framer
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Create your free account
Sign up at framer.com. The free plan lets you build and publish a real site on a framer.website subdomain, with a small Framer badge in the corner. It's enough to learn the editor and see whether the workflow fits how you work before you pay anything.
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Start from a template or a blank canvas
The template gallery is organized by site type: landing pages, portfolios, blogs, agency sites. Most people start from a template close to what they need and reshape it, since that's faster than building structure from nothing. A blank canvas is there if you already have a specific layout in mind.
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Design your pages across breakpoints
You place and style elements directly on the canvas. The part that takes some getting used to is breakpoints: you set how a layout looks on desktop, then adjust the tablet and phone versions so nothing breaks on smaller screens. Components and styles you create once can be reused across the whole site.
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Add content and embeds
If your site needs a blog or any repeating content, set up a CMS collection and Framer generates the pages from it. This is also where you'd add embeds, including a Supademo demo, by dropping in an embed element and pasting the link.
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Connect a domain and publish
Publishing is a single click, and the change is live right away. To drop the framer.website subdomain and the badge, connect a custom domain in the site settings, which is a paid-plan feature. After that, every later edit publishes the same way.
Who is Framer most useful for?
Framer covers a wide range of sites, but a few groups get the most out of it.
Designers and startup teams are the core audience. If you already think in terms of layouts and components, Framer lets you go from a design idea to a published page without handing work off to a developer. That tends to collapse the usual design-to-launch cycle from weeks to days.
Marketing teams use it for landing pages, campaign microsites, and product launches, where speed matters more than a heavy CMS. You can embed a Supademo inside a Framer landing page so visitors try the product in an interactive walkthrough instead of just reading about it, which usually does more for conversion than another block of copy.
Agencies lean on Framer to ship client sites quickly and hand over an editor that non-technical clients can actually use. Founders and freelancers reach for it for portfolios and early company sites, where the goal is something that looks considered without a build budget. In each case, pairing the site with an embedded Supademo gives visitors a hands-on look at the product right where their interest is highest.
Webflow gives you finer control over the underlying HTML and CSS, which is why developers and design teams who want to manage things like class structures tend to prefer it. That control comes at a cost: the learning curve is real, and you'll spend longer getting comfortable. Framer trades some of that depth for a faster path to a finished page.
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Squarespace works through polished, structured templates rather than a free-form canvas. You're editing within a system someone else designed, which is reassuring if you'd rather not make layout decisions, and limiting if you would. It also has stronger built-in commerce, so a small store is easier to run there than on Framer.
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Wix Studio is Wix's design-focused tier, aimed at agencies and freelancers handling client work at volume. It includes client handoff tools and assets you can reuse across projects. The editor is capable but busier than Framer's, so the choice often comes down to whether you value the agency workflow or a cleaner canvas.
Carrd does one thing: simple, single-page sites like a personal profile, a link page, or a basic landing page. There's no CMS and no multi-page structure, and that narrow focus is the appeal. If a project will ever need more than one page, Framer is the better starting point.
FAQs on Framer
Commonly asked questions about Framer. Have more? Reach out and our team will be happy to help.
Is Framer free to use?
Framer does have a free plan, and it's a real one. You can design and publish a working site on a framer.website subdomain at no cost, with a small Framer badge shown in the corner. The free plan limits how many pages and CMS items you can use, so once a site grows or needs a custom domain, you'll move to a paid plan.
Can I use my own domain with Framer?
Yes, connecting a custom domain is straightforward, though it's a paid-plan feature. You add the domain in your site settings and update the DNS records with your registrar. Once it's connected, the framer.website subdomain and the Framer badge both go away.
Do I need to know how to code to use Framer?
No, Framer is built so that designing and publishing a site requires no code. Knowing some CSS concepts helps you understand how layouts and breakpoints behave, but it isn't required. If you do write code, Framer lets you add custom code components and embeds for anything the visual editor doesn't cover.
How does Framer handle SEO?
On SEO, Framer gives you the standard controls: page titles, meta descriptions, Open Graph images, and a generated sitemap. Sites are server-rendered and served from a CDN, so pages load fast, which search engines factor in. You won't get the granular technical control of a hand-built site, but for marketing sites and landing pages it covers what most teams need.
Can I export my Framer site as code?
No, Framer doesn't offer a full code export for published websites. Your site lives on Framer's hosting, and that's part of how the publishing and CDN setup stays simple. That's worth knowing before you commit, since moving a site off Framer later means rebuilding it elsewhere rather than exporting it.
Is Framer a good fit for large websites?
Framer handles small and mid-sized sites comfortably: marketing sites, portfolios, blogs, documentation. For very large sites with hundreds of CMS entries or complex content structures, it can start to feel constrained, and the higher-tier plans exist partly to raise those limits. Match the plan to the size of the site you actually expect to build.
Does Framer work for ecommerce?
Framer can handle light ecommerce, like selling a handful of products or linking out to a checkout. It isn't built to run a large catalog with inventory, variants, and order management. If a real store is the main goal, a dedicated platform like Shopify is a better base, and you can still use Framer for the marketing pages around it.
What's the difference between Framer and the old Framer design tool?
Older versions of Framer were a prototyping and design app aimed at product designers, and that version could export React code. The current Framer is a website builder: you design and publish live sites rather than interactive prototypes. If you remember Framer as a prototyping tool, the product you'd sign up for today is a different thing.