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Matthias Cordes
Going solo as a Webflow designer and developer
Matthias Cordes is a Web Designer and Webflow Developer. He runs his own freelance business and creates high converting websites for fast growing technology startups. Matthias had his first freelance “gig” as a designer after highschool and while traveling around Australia and Bali. After graduating with a degree in Creative Technology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, he pursued his passion by working on his agency full-time. Now, he supports tech companies as a team of one, with a specialty in Webflow development.
In this episode
We talk about becoming a specialist in Webflow design and development, building trust and reputation as a freelancer, writing his case studies together with a copywriter, his design collaboration process with clients, ChatGPT for web development tasks, and so much more.
Outline & Transcript
LinkedIn videos
Going freelance straight out of university
Deciding to build a freelance career
Client RED FLAGS
Becoming a Webflow professional partner
Results > Credentials
Recent project + cool tricks
Why his case studies are so good
Basecamp for managing projects
What clients did Mattias start with?
"find a real job at a real company"
The agency he started
Professional video set up
Video marketing for his freelance practice
Web development vs. web design projects
cheese with holes
Switching from Sketch to Figma
The adrenaline from collaboration
What do you do when you get stuck?
Using ChatGPT to build websites
Coding as a non-coder
Matthias' piece of advice
