Setting up your project
Welcome to Flowmo's Editor If you have prior experience with standard design software, you'll find the interface quite intuitive and easy to start!
On the main dashboard page, click the "New Design" button.
A "New Project" window will open, where you can design your website.
Left sidebar
The left sidebar in most modes is where you can select layers, spaces and global elements of your project.
At the top you can see the project name
Under that you can see the 2 tabs, Layers tab, in that tab you can see all of your spaces and all of the layers of the elements you got in your project.
โSpaceโ is actually another editor canvas.
In the second tab you can find anything that is related to your โDesign Systemโ tab
Top Tool bar
At the top of the interface, you'll find essential design tools such as frames, shapes, iamge, text, and video.
When clicking on the Flowmo icon, you have the functionality to navigate back to the dashboard, as well as options to save, export, or alter the theme of your workspace.
Back to projects- will take you back to Dashboard
Load - opens a file open window and lets you open an FMO file
Export - saves the current project as an FMO file
Save - saves the current project
Show ruler - add rulers to the space
More options from the Tool bar:
Create a new Frame
Create a new Rect
Create a new Text
Add a new image
Flowmo plugins and helpers:
Zoom level select
Preview mode
On preview mode you can see how the selected page looks on different screen sizes:
Right sidebar
Transform
You can snap the object to any position you want
2D / 3D
you can set the perspective of any object for it to appear as 3D
X, Y
you can set the X and Y position of the object.
Constraints
you can set the constraints of each object, to Left, Center, Right and Top, Center, Bottom.
Angle
set the angle of the object, where 0 in the positive X axis, and it is CW.
Position: if you want you can set the object position to be fixed position or to keep it sticky.
Sizing
You can change the sizing to be one of the following:
Fixed - when it is fixed size you can set the width and height in px/rem/%/vw/custom.
Hug - meaning that it will hug the content and will be in that size.
Fill - when you choose this, it means that the object will fill the parent
Min and max
here you can set the maximum and minimum width and height values of the object (good practice for responsive design)
Radius
here you can set the radius of each corner of the object
Clip Content
when you mark this, it will clip the content of objects that are not supposed to visible, for instance, in a frame, you don't want to see objects or part of objects that are outside of the frame
Fill
You can add multiple fills layers Each layer can be of the following:
Solid color
Gradient
Image
Video
You can adjust the opacity of each fill layer
Text object
Font
You can choose any webfont you want, or any font you uploaded
LTR/RTL
You can set the direction of the text to be left-to-right or right-to-left
Font weight
You can set the weight to any weight the font you selected supports, for example: regular, thin, bold. Etc
Line height
you can set the line height in any unit of the following: px/rem/%/em.
Font spacing:
you can set the font spacing to any unit of the following: px/rem/%/em.
Align
You can set the align to the Left, Right, Center and Justify.
You can add an Underline, Overline and Strikethrough
You can set the Min and Max values of the font size (as in other objects, it is good practice for responsive design)
Mode-Changer Tool bar
At the bottom of the screen you will see a "mode-changer", currently Flowmo has 3 modes:
Design
Interact
Publish
Each mode changes the User-Interface so you could focus better on what you do.