text and images while maintaining consistent styling. Framer’s built-in CMS supports Content Management System—a platform for creating, organizing, and publishing digital content without writing code for each update. A CMS separates content from design, allowing non-technical users to update collections, relationships, and dynamic pages for blogs, portfolios, and product catalogs.

Motion.dev, previously called Framer Motion, is a high-performance animation library for React and JavaScript. The old name still appears in tutorials and search results, but current documentation and packages use Motion.dev.

If you are building a website in Framer, you do not need to install Motion or write Framer Motion code. Framer has Motion-powered animation tools built into the canvas, so you can create polished animations visually: appear effects, scroll animations, hover and tap states, transitions, and component variants. That gives you Framer Motion-style results without setting up npm, importing an animation library, or maintaining custom React animation code.

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If your goal is to build a website, start with Framer instead of reaching for animation code first. You can design the page, add motion, and publish from one visual workflow — then use custom code only when a project truly needs it.

Use Motion directly when you are building a custom React or JavaScript app and need code-level animation control. Use Framer when you want to design, animate, and publish a site visually.

To learn the no-code path, explore Framer’s Academy.

File Transfer Protocol—a standard method for transferring files between computers over a network. While FTP was historically used for website deployment, modern platforms like Framer handle publishing automatically. Understanding FTP concepts helps when working with legacy systems or specific hosting requirements.

Services that store website files and serve them to visitors over the internet. Reliable hosting affects site speed, uptime, and security. Framer includes premium hosting automatically with all published sites.

The percentage of time a website is operational and accessible, a key measure of reliability. High uptime is essential for user trust and revenue-generating sites. Framer's infrastructure provides high uptime through redundant hosting.

A DNS record that maps a hostname to an IPv6 address. It is the IPv6 equivalent of an A record and is used when your domain should resolve directly to an IPv6 endpoint.