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Kajabi Course Styling Framework
A complete set of styling rules for your Kajabi course lessons. Change one value in a central settings block and every lesson across your course updates instantly. No more editing lessons one by one.
Kajabi's default lessons are walls of plain text with no visual structure, no hierarchy, and no way to update anything globally. I build you a complete styling framework scoped to your course lessons so every element (headings, paragraphs, callout boxes, exercises, quotes, dividers, embedded media) becomes a styled, consistent, professional component. A CSS framework is simply a set of styling rules that tells your lessons exactly how every piece of content should look. You control the whole thing from one central settings block at the top of the file.
Book a Discovery CallThe Problem
Kajabi's course player treats every lesson as a single column of plain text with a video at the top. That is the entire default experience. There is no visual hierarchy beyond basic heading sizes, no structural elements for exercises or key takeaways, no callout styles for important information, no consistent treatment for quotes, examples, or reflection prompts. Your students open a lesson and see a generic wall of content that looks identical to every other Kajabi course they have ever taken, including the free ones.
This matters more than most course creators realize. If you are charging premium prices, your lessons need to feel premium. Students form judgments about quality within the first few seconds of opening a lesson. When the visual experience is indistinguishable from a $29 course, you are fighting perceived-value gravity on every page. It affects completion rates, testimonials, refund requests, and whether anyone ever recommends your course to someone else.
Most course creators try to fix this by adding inline styling directly into the lesson editor. This works for a single lesson. It falls apart the moment you have more than a handful. You end up with inconsistent styling across modules: a callout box on Lesson 3 that looks nothing like the one on Lesson 17 because you forgot the exact formatting you used three months ago. When you decide to change your brand color or increase the body font size, you face a choice. Edit every single lesson by hand (which takes days and introduces errors), or live with a course that looks visually broken.
Even worse, inline styles are fragile. A Kajabi update can shift spacing. A pasted formatting artifact from Google Docs or Word can override your layout. A student views your lesson on mobile and the carefully crafted three-column grid collapses into something unreadable. Without a real styling framework, you are not designing lessons. You are duct-taping them. And duct tape always comes apart at the worst possible moment.
What is actually missing is a single set of styling rules that governs every lesson across your whole course. One place to change a color. One place to adjust spacing. One place to define what a callout box, a reflection prompt, or an exercise block looks like. That is what a styling framework does. Not a theme. Not a template. A set of rules that makes every lesson consistent automatically, forever.
What This Service Delivers
I build you a complete styling framework scoped specifically to your Kajabi course lessons. Every visual detail on every lesson page (typography, colors, spacing, borders, shadows, layout, component styles) is controlled by a single settings block at the top of the framework. When you want to change your primary brand color, you update one value. When you want to increase the body font size across your entire course, you change one number. Every lesson, in every module, updates instantly. This is the core value of a real framework versus styling lessons one at a time: global control with zero repetition.
The framework covers every content element students encounter inside a lesson. Heading hierarchy (H1 through H4) with distinct visual treatment, body paragraphs with optimized line height and reading width, styled lists (ordered, unordered, nested) with custom bullets and spacing, blockquotes, inline emphasis, horizontal dividers with branded styling. Beyond basic typography, the framework includes a library of custom components designed specifically for learning content: key takeaway panels, callout boxes in multiple variants (info, warning, success, important), definition boxes for new terminology, exercise and reflection prompts, example blocks, step-by-step process layouts, comparison tables, stat highlights, timeline components, and pull quotes. Each component has a defined purpose and a consistent visual treatment so students learn to recognize them across lessons.
The framework is installed in one of two places depending on your Kajabi plan. On plans with Code Editor access (typically Growth and above), it lives inside the theme's style.css file in the Assets folder, which is the cleaner placement and what I recommend. On plans without Code Editor access, it goes into the Custom Code block under Customize (Settings, Custom Code, Embedded Scripts), wrapped in style tags. Both placements work identically. I handle the installation either way and show you exactly where it is during handover.
Every class name in the framework is scoped under a unique course identifier so the framework operates independently from the rest of your Kajabi site. It does not touch your navigation, your landing pages, your checkout flow, or any other area outside your course delivery. It is a course lesson styling system, and nothing else. That scoping is intentional: it keeps the framework small, maintainable, and safe against platform updates or theme changes elsewhere on your site.
What you own after handoff: the complete styling framework, every component HTML snippet, the settings rules reference, the style guide documentation, a Claude or ChatGPT project pre-loaded with your framework so you can paste lesson content and get formatted HTML back automatically, and a walkthrough covering exactly how to update global values, how to add components to new lessons, and how to extend the framework as your course grows. No recurring fees. No dependencies. You control the framework entirely.
What is not included: course content creation, lesson scripting, video production, landing page design, checkout page styling, or marketing page build. This engagement is focused exclusively on the CSS framework for course lessons. Other surfaces of your Kajabi site are outside the scope of this service.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. This is the core value of the framework. Every visual setting (your primary color, your accent color, your heading font size, your body font family, your spacing rhythm, your border radius) is defined once at the top of the framework in the settings block. Every component in the framework reads its values from those settings. When you update a value, every lesson using that setting updates automatically. Change your primary color and every callout, button, accent, and highlighted element across your entire course shifts instantly. This is what separates a real framework from styling lessons one at a time.
It depends on how consistently you've built your existing lessons, and honestly that varies a lot. Part of the discovery phase is auditing your current course to see what is actually there. If you have used the Kajabi editor in a reasonably standard way (paragraphs as paragraphs, headings as headings, bullet lists as bullet lists), the framework styles your content automatically with no changes needed. If your existing lessons mix inline styles, pasted-in formatting from other tools, or inconsistent structural choices from lesson to lesson, some cleanup may be needed before the framework can style them uniformly. We scope this together during discovery so you know what you are signing up for.
For the learning-focused components (callout boxes, exercise blocks, key takeaways, comparison tables), you paste small HTML snippets from the documentation into the relevant lessons (or use the included Claude or ChatGPT project to format content for you). You do not rebuild anything. You can roll out the framework across your course at whatever pace makes sense, lesson by lesson or module by module.
New lessons pick up the framework automatically. Any standard content (text, headings, lists) is styled immediately. When you need a specialized component (a callout box, a reflection prompt, a comparison table), you either paste the snippet from the documentation or use the included Claude or ChatGPT project to format your content for you. The framework grows with your course. Every new lesson gets the same design consistency as the original lessons without any additional styling work on your end.
No. The framework is already written; you do not need to know how to write CSS. Day to day, you copy small HTML snippets from the documentation into the Kajabi lesson editor and edit the text between the tags. That is the full skill requirement. When you want to make a global change (update a color, change a font size, adjust spacing), you find the relevant setting in the settings block at the top of the framework, change one value, and save. The documentation walks through both scenarios with examples.
If you would rather not touch HTML at all, the included Claude or ChatGPT project removes that entirely. You paste your lesson content into the project chat, ask for it to be formatted, and get back clean HTML ready to drop into Kajabi. The LLM picks the right component for you based on the content. No copying from documentation, no editing between tags, no thinking about which component to use.
Yes. The framework styles the content around the video (the text content, callout boxes, exercises, transcripts, supporting materials), not the video itself. Kajabi's native video player at the top of each lesson is handled by Kajabi and the framework does not touch it. Everything in the HTML content area of the lesson (the rich text editor at the bottom) gets framework styling. The framework is fully compatible with video-primary lessons, text-primary lessons, and mixed-format lessons.
The framework keeps working. It is scoped to a unique course identifier that does not depend on your theme. When you switch themes, your navigation, branding, and page layouts change, but your course lessons continue rendering with the framework's styling. The only thing to check is that the framework's installation location is still connected. For style.css placements, you would re-add it in the new theme's Assets folder. For Custom Code placements under the course's Customize settings, it stays in place as-is. I cover both scenarios in the documentation.
No. Every rule in the framework is locked to your course lesson pages through a unique prefix attached to your course. Your homepage, landing pages, checkout, email templates, navigation, footer, and every other part of your Kajabi site are completely untouched. The framework is genuinely isolated: if you deleted it tomorrow, the only thing that changes is your lesson styling. Nothing else moves. If you later decide you want custom styling for other surfaces of your Kajabi site, that is a separate engagement with its own scope.
You receive a 30-day post-delivery support window at no additional cost. If anything in the framework does not render correctly, behaves unexpectedly on a specific device, or conflicts with something inside Kajabi, I fix it. After the 30-day window, paid support sessions are available for troubleshooting, adjustments, or additions. That said, the framework is built with clean, well-documented CSS. Most day-to-day needs (updating a color, adding a component to a new lesson, tweaking a font size) you will handle yourself using the documentation or the included LLM project.
Yes. The framework is designed to be extended. If you launch a new module and realize you need a specific component you did not plan for (a timeline, a quiz-style question card, a branded downloadable resource card), I can build it into the framework as an add-on. New components follow the same settings block system and scoping as the original build, so they inherit your colors, typography, and spacing automatically. New component additions are quoted separately based on complexity.
Most projects take 2 to 3 weeks from discovery to handoff. The core build phase (where the framework is written, tested, and installed) typically runs 5 to 7 days. The biggest variable is responsiveness: the discovery and design direction phases require your feedback and approvals, and delays on your side push the timeline. Larger projects covering many component types, many custom components, or very large course libraries can run 3 to 5 weeks. I provide a specific timeline estimate after the discovery call, based on your actual scope.
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