Hello guys, I’ve just finish a new website and in the process I try to create first on Figma and then move to Sparkle and NOP, never again.
Figma is very cool and I love design social posts there but the truly power of Sparkle on deliver what you design has nos comparison. Keep doing your magic @duncan you and your team are beyond the big guys.
Any of you uses first Figma and then export to Sparkle? I would like to see examples of the benefits on doing that.
The only real advantage with Figma, Canva, or any of the other online graphics apps, is that they allow you to design a website when you don’t have the tools to create the actual HTML pages - essentially, you can pass the design on to coders and leave them to worry about how make it all work. If you’re a Sparkle owner, it really is like doing the work twice. At it’s heart, Sparkle allows you to do the whole job in a single app, from wire framing, through to final page design, and then on to exporting it as a ready-to-go-website. Personally, if the final intent is to create web pages, you may as well start and finish the whole process in Sparkle.
Here here! I’ve often wondered why people would choose to do it twice. Thought I was missing something… but I’m not!
That website is really nice! Inspires me to pay attention to learning how to do more in Sparkle!
For solo designers, yea, Figma is meh, but useful. But it is gold when you need to collaborate with a lot of designers and developers, sometimes at the same time. But thats for medium to big companies nevertheless.
I do use it a lot in conjunction with Sparkle because it is an essential part of my workflow, to both make changes on the design and to keep the client updated. Also its faster to create stuff and “forget” them in your Figma cloud account than on Sparkle files around your Mac.
Thanks dude! See you around on X building https://panot.es
I love create 100% on web browser and collaborative.
Above that the way Figma exports the files make the creation looks better (I don’t know why but I feel that way)
Sparkle as it is is lovely for me. I don’t see the interface with a collaboration mode.
Perhaps as you say is perfect. You create on Figma with the team and then 1 person is responsible for make it real on Sparkle.
Long life to Sparkle.
I understand the idea but… when back in the days iWeb make possible design and deploy… for me there’s like a truly option to a designer evolve to a web designer (autonomous, independent o a dev) but the world doesn’t go that way.
Squarespace is interesting but the idea of keep your website kidnapped as long as you pay… is not for me.
For me Sparkle truly save my existence as a designer that delivers solutions from start to finish.
Absolutely right! My bet is that in the near future Figma will upgrade to a subscription mode like webflow getting the website no-code option ready for a monthly payment.
For the most part Sparkle is a self container website development platform allowing your to play, wireframe, visuals & content, test, and publish! 
But there are times where I just need that little bit extra like…
Figma design boards seamlessly import into Sparkle with just minor tweaks to be made. The only biggie is the naming convention of the font styles and how it gets missed up with Sparkle’s preset font styles. Times like these it would be nice to allow a Sparkle User to clear all the preset font styles before importing the Figma project.
In a couple of my Flamin’ Fig template projects I used Figma and for me they turned out really well.
But then overall I totally LOVE SPARKLE and it is only getting better!!! 
One day @soygrafico I would love you to explain to us your take on web 3.0 based on the crypto paradigm!
The idea that a graphic design application can transparently design websites is ludicrous. While Sparkle at its core is in some ways a (limited) 2D layout application, there’s so much more that needs to be done to produce a complete website.
I’m not saying it’s impossible, but not one graphic design application or plugin has been extended, either directly by the developer or by a third party plugin, into a full website builder. And there have been plugins for Photoshop, for Sketch, Canva even does websites now. Nothing really usable.
Sparkle is awesome, the only thing that stops me using it more is that clients want to be able to update their websites, like posting a blog entry so they need a simpler way to do that and sparkle is not the solution (at least for me).
And yeah, I suscribe @FlaminFig words
@dpamping You’ve brought up a really important point, especially for those of us in web design. Over the years, I’ve worked with many clients who express a desire to manage their own website updates. It’s a valid requirement in certain cases, but the reality is often a bit different.
When a client mentions wanting to take charge, my first question is always about the platform they plan to use for these updates. This question often gives them pause, though occasionally, they’ll mention WordPress or another web-building platform. My response is typically, “If you’re ready to dive into a platform like that, do you really need a web designer?” After all, if someone is willing to learn the ins and outs of these tools, they might just need a good template to get started.
However, in the few instances where I’ve agreed to let clients take the reins, it’s usually led to issues down the road. More often than not, I find myself getting frequent calls asking how to make certain changes or fix issues that have disrupted the site’s layout. At that point, the time and effort required to assist would likely have been better spent just handling the updates myself - it’s often more cost-effective for the client too.
That said, there are definitely situations where it makes sense for clients to manage certain updates themselves. Usually, these updates are focused on specific areas of the site, like swapping out a hero image to align with seasonal changes in a fashion retailer’s collection, or updating products in an online store. For these scenarios, Sparkle offers great flexibility. You can easily integrate third-party scripts or embed codes to allow clients to make updates. Even simple CMS scripts can be embedded within a Sparkle page, giving them control over specific text areas.
So, it’s not that Sparkle is only for websites where the designer handles all updates. It’s about understanding which parts of the site the client wants to manage. If they’re looking to change everything - colours, layouts, fonts - they might be better off with a template and a platform they’re willing to learn. But for more targeted updates, there are definitely ways to make it work.
For me is just the blog side of things. Clients want to be able to upload posts. For other changes they are willing to pay
If you need a blogging system that your clients can use to update their blog themselves, I can recommend this script which integrates nicely into Sparkle.
I love PHPJabber, so easy to integrate.
Great points Flamin, thanks! I use Figma more as a tool for create social post, carrusel, stories in one hand and in the other as a tool for create elements that later i will import inside Sparkle. For me, create full website on Figma is like working twice.
About your other comment. Let me share wit you and the sparklers a some thoughts that I have about web3
CHATGPT help me with the translation jijiji Here’s the translation into American English:
Every day, we spend more time interacting with tools that have some connection to the digital world. Gamers were the first to recognize the importance of exchanging digital assets and having a digital currency. The downside of the gaming world is that their assets are still confined within a single application.
The Web3 wave aims to hold valuable digital assets that exist outside any application, seeking self-custody and ownership. This allows for a marketplace of buying and selling without intermediaries. This concept and idea were born from the possibilities introduced by the Bitcoin project.
There are three fundamentals that are vital for this new web:
Transparency: so that anyone can see the transactions or movements being made.
Traceability: so that anyone can track these movements back to their origin.
Transfer of value: so that a digital asset can change ownership without an intermediary controlling whether the transaction can be executed.
The risks posed by artificial intelligence can be contained with blockchain due to the characteristics it offers.
For a long time, decision-making power was in the hands of a few, but what this new web offers is that power lies in the decisions of the majority.
These are still tricky and dangerous times, but I find them very interesting for the future that awaits our children.
The limit is on our creativity as a Sparkle web designers. You and your team give us the tool and is on us take out the juice! Im more than happy to have this on my professional life.
What a great comment Franc. Did you have some YouTube tutorial where can we explain us the no-code designers how to insert step by step this and other scripts in order to change it easily for the client some photos or small parts of text?
That will take the offer of websites to another level!