Blocs

Blocs for Mac is a fast, easy-to-use, powerful visual web-design tool that lets you create beautiful, modern websites without the need to write code. Cleverly designed to accommodate complete beginners or those familiar with web design. You will love building with Blocs.

Features

• Designed For Simplicity - Building with Blocs is simple and fun. A clean, intuitive interface makes creating sites unbelievably quick. Simply click, select, edit and enjoy stacking blocks to build your website. Its ease of use will make you feel right at home.
• Powerful Styling features - Behind the simplified interface of Blocs lie some of its more advanced editing features. When you are ready to get more creative with your designs, Blocs will grow with you. You set the pace.
• Create CMS-Driven Websites - Blocs has integrated support for a range of premium (paid) and open source (free) third-party content management systems. It's now possible to easily create powerful, dynamic websites, that can be updated and contributed to, right from your web browser.
• Time-Saving features - Paint mode, global swatches, auto text colouring and one click animations are just a few of the playful, time saving features in Blocs. You’ll be amazed how quickly you can create a website.
• No subscription, unlimited web sites

Version 2.4.0:

New or Improved

• Added page template support
• Re-designed sidebar controls
• Upgrade app codebase to use WebKit 2.0 for performance boost
• Column collapse control on tablet and mobile
• Improved Carousel controls
• Added Carousel auto-play controls
• RTL text direction support
• Added typography controls to logo options
• New Lightbox full screen frame style
• Added mobile swipe support to carousels and light box
• Added arrow key navigation for light box
• Added global text line height options to project settings
• Added form subject controls
• Added form success redirect controls
• Added lazy load options for images, iframes and videos - export settings
• Added preview in place for images
• Added Google Font subset support for Cyrillic, Arab, Greek, and more
• Improved text edit UX
• Improved replace image UX
• x6 new social media Blocs
• Added canvas scroll bars
• Improved Icon Manager UX
• Improved drop and drag markers on smaller elements such as buttons to show more accurate placement
• Improved handling of JS scripts that are present in code snippets when being inserted into the HTML widget
• Added sound effect after export is complete
• Added option in preferences to switch off app sounds
• Added haptic feedback for newer Mac trackpads
• Added preview in browser support for Vivaldi
• Removed the max file size limit for animated GIFs

i had the privilege of trying blocs 2.0 during the closed beta and i must say im pretty excited about it. to be honest i thought it would be impossible to satisfy my needs, as i was looking for a web design tool thats not so much aimed at beginners anymore. but the developer behind blocs totally pulled it off.

The UI of v2 is just as simple to understand as the first version of blocs. it just feels more mature and grown up by now. beginners are still able to create pretty cool looking sites in literally no time. if you know what you're aiming for, you can easily create a fully functioning one-pager in less than 5 minutes. with some getting used to the workflow you can probably do it in less than 1 minute without adjusting the text.

so what about power users? well they would throw together a site just like a beginner would, but after it you have this entire new level of settings and options to tweak. and thats what make the difference for me. with blocs 1.x i sometimes hit a wall where the capabilities of the software ended, but now its a totally different story. id recommend going to the website of blocs and checking out the 2 introduction videos. they show what i mean.

but even if you are a professional web developer that loves raw code. i bet you anything that theres no way that you could create a raw skeleton of a website faster than in blocs. there is no drawing like there was in macaw, theres also no drag & drop. you only click to add elements and select what you want. its really super fast.

so in the end, theres something for everybody inside Blocs 2.0 and i recommend you check out the trial and see for yourself.

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