Why Did I Make the Wix Studio Foundations Course for Beginners?

It’s official. I have my first course live! And already 2 students signed up. 🥳 But here is the reason behind the course.

Web design and shift in 2025

Since the rise of AI, I have noticed a trend of us, yes, all of us, turning to AI to help us solve a problem or come up with ideas first before we talk to another person or even better, a proffesional.

Same trend I see in web design as well. Business owners and starting entrepreneurs are trying to “vibe code” their website or app, but eventually stumble into a tall brick wall or troubleshooting.

So I decided, since I have created so many different web design tutorials and the Design with me series, that it would be a good idea to create a beginner's course for Wix Studio.

How did the course come about?

Of course, before starting the course headfirst, I decided to ask my audience on all social media channels if they would be interested in such a course.

To my surprise, I already had 1 keen viewer to get enrolled in the course and was eagerly checking on the release date. 🤭 What better motivation than someone enquiring about your course?

Thanks to that one viewer on YouTube, I started creating a bit more content about the course and researching who else would be interested. After I got 10 people on the waitlist as interested, I decided to lock in and complete what I have started.

What was the course creation process like?

Tiresome! The first mistake I made was that I didn’t have a dedicated calendar slot for actually working on the course. After procrastinating for a month, I decided to set at least one time slot during the week for just the course.

First, I started with drafting the script, or the so-called course structure. Answering the questions like:

• What would I, as a beginner would like to know and learn?
• Should I show students how to use prebuilt sections only?
• Will everyone know how to use the layers panel and find the menu on mobile when it's hidden?

After I answered a few of my questions, it was clear to me that I need to start with the foundations. Account for the fact that some course buyers are not designers and haven’t used the tool, but want to learn it.

Hence, I also decided to teach my students how to build a Hero section from scratch because I have seen this request in a lot of tutorials online. And it does make sense, you learn something new, you want to apply the knowledge yourself and see the result.

How hard is it to record a course?

After my course structure was ready and I had a rough script, the filming started. I was aiming for natural light, good angles, clear tone of voice, good examples, no distractions and background noise. Well, that last one sometimes was a challenge. 😂

Screaming kids, loud neighbours and barking dogs, I had them all in my behind-the-scenes footage. Thanks to DaVinci Resolve, I could cut all the discrations.

Editing the course was a nightmare!

What I didn’t account for, though, was the fact that my first lesson was a 22-minute post-edit (1:30h without the edit) and the recording and export settings needed to match well so the quality export to be good.

By the end of the course, I got the hang of the export, and the quality of the screen recording with OBS improved drastically, but then I had issues with:

• The sound is disappearing randomly
• Colour grading due to natural and artificial light at home
• Sound volume and quality when filming the preview video with my phone
• And other minor issues

Uploading the course to Udemy

Honestly, this was a BREEZE! So easy. Even the articles on how to organise your course or write your learning objectives were very useful.

The course page has a checklist you can check off in your preferred order. There are always suggestions on how to improve a course experience along the way. Previews are  available as a student and as an instructor.

The only things I had to Google solutions for were:

• How to set a price for my course
• How to add subtitles

What does my course include?

• Before you start — tips for the students before they start on the course to ensure an excellent learning experience
• Instructor introduction — my introduction and background, so they get to know me and decide whether my tone of voice or speech is something I could listen to for the rest of the course.
• Dashboard and Interface Walkthrough — starting with the map of the tool, because there is nothing worse than being frustrated because you can’t find a tool and start feeling lost in the middle of your learning lesson.
• Creating a Site Style — because you need to minimise your work as a designer and want to have a good and consistent branding across your website that comes from one place, the Site Styles (Style Guide).
• Page hierarchy and Wix Studio editor tour — learn how to navigate and use the page hierarchy to your advantage, how and where to find elements and apps that can grow your website to its full potential.
• Animations and interactions — how to add interaction to your website, animations to sections, elements and more. Exploring the customisation of the animations and mouse interactions.
• Building a hero section from scratch — as I mentioned, there are  a lot of students eager to build websites from scratch, and even though it is a drag-and-drop no-code platform, there is a way to put a section together from scratch. This way, you can reimagine ways to use other layouts available online as a reference.
• Redesigning pre-designed sections — using the potential and responsive settings from the Wix Studio pre-designed sections, and redesigning them to fit your business goals.

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