I have been with Webflow for a few weeks now, learning on my own. I like the product very much it’s worthy of it’s reputation but the tutorials, not so much. I know your improving them, I would like to suggest:
As well as being able to clone the complete project in a course, make it possible to see a clone of the project semi built, to the stage that the tutorial video is explaining. This way you could check your work easily. At present, if your say on day 5 of a course, you have made a mistake of some kind and tyour site is not performing, if you check the finished product, it also includes changes that are made on day 6-21, which means your mistaken setting is obscured - especially in the RHS pane. Providing correct partial builds at the end of each video would greatly help.
When I am doing a course, something that is just muscle memory for the tutor and no doubt easy when you know, is at first a game of hunt the buttons, meaning I cannot follow along quickly. Even in 101 stuff flys by very quickly, therefore I have to repeat sections; a lot. It would be great to have an A B repeat button for the timeline of the videos.
You seem to have two “dashboards” on your website, each having dashboar links going different places, this threw my navigation off course. You have one main ‘dashboard’ and one university dashboard?
The Webflow website is not easy to navigate for newbies. In particular I often can’t seem to find the University section from pages within the Main Webflow site. I have had to save a favorite in my browser. Going to “dashboard” takes me often out of university, but then there is a dashboard in the university?
On the main page, you have a “tutorials” section, which a newbie might expect to contain all the tutorials - it doesn’t it’s very cutdown. Do you really need a tutorials section AND a University?
When the tutor says “make the setting 30 pixels, no make that fifteen, 50 is probably best, in fact there are several ways to do this let’s…er… do this instead” it’s very confusing if your trying to follow. Clarity please.
Less asides please. No flirting, lame jokes and bits about what someone is cooking for dinner. All jokes get tedious 5th time around. Just accurate content please. If I am learning what an element is I don’t want to be told hydrogen. It took me about a week ot understand what Webflow meant by this term. I don’t mean to kill the positivity or even the humour, but the new user needs above all, concise clarity.
The tutorials are a gateway to new users/customers. They need to be effective.
I think the site could do with a “introduction ot Webflow Navigation” which shows you around the interface. I lost a lot of time trying to understand where things were, and I am still not confident yet. Hiding stuff under orange buttons and under text fields, was not something I immediately realised., costing me days.
The vertical scroll bar on the left is thin and very difficult to pick up on my PC with large screen. A plumper one would make it much easier to scroll fron Font to Layout to custom properties.
A problem I have not found a solution to yet is how ot make the working screen size (not the site) zoom. Maybe this is impossible?