# How to Use Elementor: Build an Awesome WordPress Website, With No Code - review & insight | Gareth B. Davies Source: https://garethbdavies.com/course-insights/how-to-use-elementor-build-an-awesome-wordpress-website-with-no-code/ [← All courses](https://garethbdavies.com/course-insights/) Tech & Coding · Solid intro · Rated 6 /10 # How to Use Elementor: Build an Awesome WordPress Website, With No Code By Gareth B. Davies · Updated August 2026 Jon Wolfgang Miller · Digital Graphic Designer Beginner · 213 min A working single-page WordPress site in one class, but the trade-off is a rigid tutorial that mostly rebuilds one designer's music-store demo. [Get a Free Month on Skillshare](https://skillshare.eqcm.net/c/3155494/298081/4650?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skillshare.com%2Fclasses%2Fhow-to-use-elementor-build-an-awesome-wordpress-website-with-no-code%2F1045898965) New to Skillshare? Your first month is free, enough to take this course at no cost. Jon Wolfgang Miller's Elementor class sets out to do one specific thing: take a total beginner from a blank WordPress install to a finished, responsive, single-page website, using only the free version of Elementor. It succeeds at that narrow goal. Whether it teaches website design more broadly is a separate question, and the answer there is less generous. ## Structure and what it actually teaches The eighteen lessons follow the literal build order of one project, a fictional music store called Wolfgang Music. After setup lessons covering free hosting through Wordify and plugin installation, the course walks through a hero section, an image carousel, two differently animated about sections, testimonials, a footer, and a header with anchor-linked navigation. The teaching method is almost entirely demonstration: watch the instructor set a padding value, watch him pick a background image, watch him adjust an opacity slider. Concepts like the difference between flexbox and grid containers get a clear explanation early on, and the anchor-link navigation lesson is a genuine highlight, showing how to route users to specific sections of a single page and reposition those anchor points independently for tablet and mobile. But most lessons consist of specific pixel values and specific color choices applied to specific images, which teaches the sequence of actions more than the reasoning behind them. The responsive design lessons are the strongest part of the back half. Rather than treating mobile as an afterthought, the course shows how Elementor inherits desktop settings down through tablet and mobile, and how a container's flex direction can be reversed or switched to column stacking to fix an ordering problem without rebuilding anything. Watching a background image's focal point get manually repositioned with X and Y offsets so a cropped mobile view still shows the right part of the photo is a useful, non-obvious troubleshooting technique. ## Where it falls short The course's biggest weakness is scope. It builds exactly one type of page: a single-page, one-off marketing site with a hero, some info blocks, testimonials, and a footer. There is no coverage of multi-page navigation, WooCommerce or any e-commerce setup despite the fictional business being a retail store, blog structures, SEO basics, or performance optimization beyond a passing note about image resolution. Site speed, plugin conflicts, and backup practices go unmentioned entirely. The domain and go-live lesson is thin and vendor-specific, walking through one hosting company's upgrade flow rather than explaining domain and DNS concepts in a way that would transfer to other hosts. And because so much of the runtime is spent replicating one designer's exact color choices and image crops, students following along literally end up with a site that looks like a reskin of the instructor's rather than a demonstration of principles they could apply to a different brand or layout. For a true beginner who wants a fast, guided win and is willing to substitute their own images and colors, this delivers a real, live website by the end and demystifies Elementor's interface well. For anyone who already knows basic WordPress or wants to understand web design principles rather than replay a specific build, it will feel like watching someone else make aesthetic decisions for two and a half hours. The standout The anchor-link navigation setup, where buttons scroll visitors to specific page sections and each breakpoint's anchor position can be repositioned independently, is a genuinely transferable single-page-site technique. ## What you will learn - · Setting up free WordPress hosting and installing the Elementor plugin correctly - · Building full-width hero sections with fixed background images and custom overlay text - · Using flexbox and grid containers to structure layout sections instead of pre-made templates - · Creating scroll-triggered animations, entrance effects, and an image carousel gallery - · Building an anchor-linked single-page navigation bar with hover states - · Adjusting responsive layouts independently across desktop, tablet, and mobile breakpoints Best for: Total beginners who want a guided, watch-and-repeat path to one finished WordPress landing page without touching code. Skip it if: Anyone needing a multi-page site, e-commerce functionality, SEO guidance, or Elementor's pro-tier features, since the class deliberately stays within the free plugin and a single page. Clarity of Instruction Engaging Teacher Actionable Steps Organization of Lessons [Get a Free Month on Skillshare](https://skillshare.eqcm.net/c/3155494/298081/4650?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skillshare.com%2Fclasses%2Fhow-to-use-elementor-build-an-awesome-wordpress-website-with-no-code%2F1045898965)