What the static folder holds
- Pages
- One HTML file per route, rendered as published
- Assets
assets/{css,js,img,fonts,media}, every reference rewritten- Forms
- Re-pointed to a first-party endpoint — Webflow's own form handler stays with Webflow
- Host config
vercel.json,netlify.toml,_headers- What is not there
- The Designer, the CMS, the editor — Content is rendered output, not a live collection
No build step, no runtime, no database. Anything that serves files with the right MIME types serves this.
The pre-flight, before you point DNS at it
- Serve the folder locally and walk every route with the network off
- Open the network panel and confirm nothing resolves to
*.webflow.io - Submit each form once and check it arrives in the inbox you configured
- Check the pages the navigation does not link to — they are the ones that get missed
- Deploy to the host's preview URL first; move the domain only after that passes