Goodbye RW - hello Blocs - Basic questions

[RogerSunbeam]

Hello, I’m new to blocs, but I’m no web novice. I have many years of experience with RW/Stacks, Foundry3, and Elementor, and now I want/need to reorient myself and am looking forward to a new forum
Elementor remains a must for some customers, but for ease of use on the web, I need something intuitive. So now I’m using Blocs 6.3.3 and am working on a project for a vacation home provider with an integrated booking system via iframe.
I bought the HotelTemplate, watched a lot of videos beforehand, and am now reasonably clear on how it works, even if I’m not quite up to speed yet! What I didn’t understand at all, for example, is whether the underlying 12-column background grid can be changed in the spaces between columns… And yes, I understand that there is a DivContainer that can be changed with the “grid-style” classes, but I’m concerned about the spacing between them…!?

Then I realized that working with responsive text or columns requires a lot of attention. In any case, it’s more complex than it was in Foundry3 with “Blacksmith.”

I then bought the “Textbloc” Bric extension, but it doesn’t correspond to the breakpoints very intuitively either.
In any case, I still have a lot of work ahead of me, but maybe someone can give me an answer to the GridGap question.
Thanks

[Norm]

Hello @RogerSunbeam and welcome to your new home!

@RogerSunbeam

I bought the HotelTemplate, watched a lot of videos beforehand, and am now reasonably clear on how it works, even if I’m not quite up to speed yet! What I didn’t understand at all, for example, is whether the underlying 12-column background grid can be changed in the spaces between columns… And yes, I understand that there is a DivContainer that can be changed with the “grid-style” classes, but I’m concerned about the spacing between them…!?

Depending on how the grid has been set up, you can adapt the gap directly on the canvas in most cases like this.

Of you can use the spacing controls directly on the grid child elements.

Depending on your use case you may also be better off just using the traditional Bootstrap Column Layout more details on how that works here.

As you are new, its also worth mentioning the Blocs Academy and Knowledge Base, both are good sources of info on various aspects of how Blocs works.

[Helen]

Welcome to the community @RogerSunbeam

[Bootsie]

@Norm

Depending on your use case you may also be better off just using the traditional Bootstrap Column Layout more details on how that works here.

I always recommend this.

[AdieJAM]

Welcome to Blocs @RogerSunbeam - I too was a RW/Stacks user and looked at Foundry but found my place in Blocs and never looked back.

You will find everything here all under the hood as to say ! I am not jus saying this but once you get the basics you will kick yourself for all the years and money spent on Stacks etc !

I have done a little in Elementor (free) as I had clients who wanted me to use WP and my head just came back to Blocs each time and I will never ever go anywhere else and If I do need to do any Wordpress sites I will build them in Blocs.

Really looking forward to seeing your work and please shout if you need more help.

[SpookyDoo]

Here is a post I did a bit ago, it may help you for gaps with columns. I came from Stacks and Foundry. Foundry did it slightly differently. Welcome to Blocs it’s great.

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