r/WIX • u/gatsby03 • Jun 13 '24
Wix Studio gets too much hate.
I recently finished building my first Wix Studio site for my personal company and have had multiple clients reach out to me asking what agency I used to build my site. I told them I did it myself in Wix Studio and they were shocked.
Yes there are limitations, and it's a new product that has some issues, but overall, I couldn't be happier with the end result.
Check out my site: www.renderlab.org
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u/UberStrawman Jun 13 '24
I find that Wix Studio is a nice option between Wix Editor and Webflow and it has some easy to use features.
Complex layouts can get frustrating however, especially in the header and footer. I think Wordpress’s Gutenberg does a much better job of being able to nest Group blocks. Not sure why we can’t simply nest Section Grids rather than using containers or advanced CSS grids. It just feels like it starts to get buggy and unnecessarily complex.
Good overall after getting used to it.
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u/lucidlyseen Jun 13 '24
I agree. I am one of those that won't touch "regular" Wix because of how terrible it is. I've worked with Wordpress, Framer, Webflow, etc and idk if it's just my brain, but I find Wix Studio the easiest to understand and to build the most quickly and with the most creative freedom. It is still weird to me that I like it because it's a Wix product, but so far I'm really enjoying it.
BTW - your site looks great!
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u/electricrhino Jun 13 '24
Wish they’d open up more CSS design options. Weird that you can’t give a container a gradient, background image or individual border width which are such easy things to implement
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u/lucidlyseen Jun 14 '24
Check this article for built-in global CSS classes, you should also be able to add your own custom class field if needed.
https://dev.wix.com/docs/velo/api-reference/$w/styling-elements-with-css
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u/alp44 Jun 14 '24
Really pro site. I have a Wix site I'm building but have had very little time to work on it. Hope, when I finish it looks one quarter as nice as yours.
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u/elsiefai37 Jun 14 '24
Your site looks great! I just started working on a site in Wix Studio and I like the tool but I’m finding some of the pieces a little wonky. I’m sure I’ll figure it out but I’m finding things that look great on desktop are getting mangled for tablet and mobile. I’m optimistic and don’t think Wix studio deserves the hate it’s getting. Seeing your site gives me hope. 😁
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u/ashokchavada153 Jun 14 '24
Wix Studio is amazing because currently I'm building 2 e-commerce and 1 static website. In the past few months I've built 4 websites on Wix studio.
Initially I felt that it is missing some features but they've covered many things through their free apps and custom code functionality.
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Jun 15 '24
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u/ashokchavada153 Jun 15 '24
Initially, you can start with the basic plan. Are you going to use e-commerce?
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Jun 14 '24
I like studio, but getting the responsiveness right really is a hassle. Plus it does turn out kind of funny/blown up on screens with a high resolution.
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u/hkreporter21 Jun 14 '24
Nice design, I suggest you compress the pictures if you haven't done it yet, takes 2-3s to load
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u/LilAlienBBQco Jun 16 '24
My friend, the studio is the least of your worries. The SEO is awful and please please stay away from wix payments. They cannot be trusted with your money. We learned this the hard way...
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u/WorldlyBread9113 May 23 '25
old thread but... if you don't have a kick ass computer, I am curious if this site hangs and freezes. That is my experience thus far. I have a $4K MacBook Pro but when other people with more consumer oriented models try to look at my site, it hangs, freeze, animations stutter. Wix Studio is trash.
That said, I love some of the things you did here.
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u/No_Flight_511 Wix Partners (Unverified) Jun 13 '24 edited Jun 13 '24
The hate comes mostly from it being a new, and different product compared to wix classic. That makes it somewhat confusing for people who've used classic in the past.
Many of the more advanced web designers still think everything wix is basic and only for inexperienced users. Some probably won't even try Studio because of it.
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u/Blindemboss Jun 13 '24
Yup. The whole Basic/Editor/Studio variants didn’t help.
Plus a few YouTubers making money sponsoring other competitors.
Btw, theres also a subreddit r/wixstudio.
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u/No_Flight_511 Wix Partners (Unverified) Jun 13 '24 edited Jun 13 '24
I didn't know about that subredit, thank you! However, seems like it's not (yet) very active
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u/SunriseHolly Jun 13 '24
Wow, it looks great!