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 2.4.2:

New

• Zoom level is now stored in file so it’s automatically set when re-opening a project
• Improved empty page layout issues when hiding global areas
• Added support to copy and paste class token tags between objects
• Updated page setting labels to use the term Global areas rather than nav and footer
• Added support to load all stored system swatches into the Blocs colour picker popover
• Colour picker now stores the current picker mask and restores it when it's opened again
• Added Crayons to colour picker
• Improved Blocs setup UX Mac name populator
• Improved SVG UX - Better support for whiteout SVG images
• Improved context menu class item UX
• Improved Page Settings UX - Added primary button styling and ESC key now exits ‘add additional code mode’ and closes sheet
• Minor interface improvements

Improved

• Fixed issue that caused duplicate page attachments to show on pages after export
• Fixed issue that caused light box navigation chevrons to not show if no other icons are used in site
• Fixed issue that caused null icon style sheet attachment if no icons used in site
• Fixed issue that caused Bric Library to not hide after selecting a new bric when ESC key hit
• Fixed issue that prevented some classes from being deleted properly
• Fixed issue that caused error in classes when editing tablet classes that don’t start with a dot
• Fixed issue that prevented classes that don’t start with a dot from getting their active and hover states
• Fixed issue that prevented data feed from being set on Dropdown menus and lists
• Fixed issue that prevented Blocs file from loading if it contained a unique apostrophe character
• Fixed issue that prevented text editing when a full screen bloc has a video background and top row area
• Fixed issue that allowed the colour picker to be dragged out of the popover
• Fixed issue that prevented opening project settings if global text colour is set to transparent
• Fixed issues that caused carousels to break if images are placed within the carousel content area
• Fixed issue that caused Blocs to crash when saving on High Sierra
• Fixed a number of issues with the Menu Manager
• Fixed issue that prevented carousels loading correctly after export when they are placed within the top global area
• Fixed some issues that caused navigator thumbnails graphical glitches
• Fixed issue that prevented text from being selected and edited if the text contains an icon at the beginning and some escaped characters within the text content
• Fixed issue that caused light box text to change if word ‘controls’ used in string
• Fixed issue that made html widget unselectable when nested within a panel
• Fixed issue that prevented missing logo asset from being reported in missing asset window

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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