Blocs overview

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

What’s new in version 5.2.5

New & Improved

Added Blocs project code sample for export option in trial mode.
Added Support for dragging images onto carousels on the design canvas to assign the image to the active carousel slide.
Added support for + and ~ combinator in class names.
Added support to nudge Blocs in group up and down with keyboard shortcut.
Improved class token field token tooltips.
Update Bloc group child Bloc global markers when moving between zones.
Minor Interface tweaks.

Fixes

Fixed issue that caused underscore characters to be replaced when a class name is edited in the Class Editor.
Fixed loophole that allowed adding large WebP images to projects.
Fixed issue that caused image editor crop lock icon to remain in interface when cropping is disabled.
Fixed issue that caused Blocs to crash when browsing a server in Connection Manager and collapsing section with a selection inside.
Fixed issue that caused Blocs to crash when closing a project with a menu selected.
Fixed various issues with dragging images onto Masonry Image Galleries.
Fixed issue that prevented Bloc and Bric item overlay controls showing when mouse is over them.
Fixed various issues with Bloc groups.
Fixed various issues with nudging Blocs and Bloc groups in and out of Global Areas with keyboard shortcuts.
Fixed various issues with dragging and dropping Blocs within Bloc Groups in the layer tree.
Fixed various issues with using html tags in class names.
Fixed some typos.

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4.1

(41 Reviews of Blocs)

Comments
User Ratings

Greedyfranky

Sep 21 2020

3.5.4

5.0

Version: 3.5.4

Great support and community makes this an essential tool for creating awesome looking websites. That said, it can sometimes be frustrating getting positions right. But ones you master this, it is just fantastic.

anonymous-raven-5335

Jul 30 2020

3.5.1

Version: 3.5.1

While it is true that Blocs has lots of ready made blocs and brics to work with, you don't have to. You actually have a lot of freedom in designing your website with blocs. Yes, you need to work within the boundaries of the Bootstrap 4 framework, but that's not generally a bad thing. And Blocs 4 will most likely add support for CSS grid and a lot of improvements for developers as well as designers. And true, while you can simply use the premade blocs to quickly assemble a website, it's not the way to go if you want your website to look different from what most Bootstrap built webpages look. Put a little effort into learning the ins and outs of Blocs and you'll be able to achieve very good looking websites. Learn some basic HTML and CSS to be able to apply custom CSS classes or edit those that come with Bootstrap, and you're golden to craft really good looking websites. Blocs is for beginners and pro web developers / designers alike that prefer a more visual approach to designing a website while still being able to customise the look and feel of the website by using custom CSS or inject custom JS and PHP. Combine Blocs with the VOLT CMS and Blogging solution, and you won't need much more. Anyone else saying blocs sucks because you can just use ready made blocs hasn't seriously tried the app. Just saying...

red-fox7

May 15 2020

3.4.10

Version: 3.4.10

It might not be just as easy to use as Wix & co, but it's definitely still very easy! It requires no coding at all, and just gives you almost every freedom to design what you would like to, all while "guiding" you to a nice, fully & automatic responsive design. It's great in helping you to avoid those mistakes that make websites look unprofessional or outdated.
Another MAJOR advantage: You download & pay the software once, and you are free to use it for as many websites as you'd like to, no monthly fee, free forever. Almost no other modern website builder can compete with this offer, I've searched a lot before I found Blocs...

edwardkruze

Feb 11 2020

3.4.3

1.0

Version: 3.4.3

Blocs is not intuitive, its not "easy to use" its very limiting and very time consuming. I highly recommend putting the time to learning a software like dreamweaver and learning some code before diving into a front end like this that still needs A LOT of work. It looks nice, but working with it feels like trying to play golf with a bowling ball.