I recently purchased the Plus Addon and the Minimalist Library Extension pack for Blocs, and I must say that the latter has completely transformed the way I use Blocs. Its functionality is simply magical! Without intending to sound rude, I strongly believe that Blocs should come with this package by default. I sincerely hope that the developer considers incorporating something similar into the next major upgrade, given its incredible value. Has anyone else purchased it here? I’d love to learn from your experiences and how you’ve customized your sites using the package, as well as other achievements. I am beyond excited about Blocs now!
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@AlbertKinng Great to hear you are enjoying Blocs Plus and @Eldar Minimalist Library Extension, which is amazing! Thanks for your feedback.
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I am absolutely in love with the user-friendly interface of Blocs. Although I still rely on Rapidweaver for the Stacks I have purchased and need, I am confident that over time I will increasingly gravitate towards using Blocs. In fact, I can’t believe I never gave it a try before now! What a missed opportunity that was!
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How do you feel about it now? I am only now considering Blocs, and want to know your thoughts after few months of use, vis-à-vis Realmac’s new Elements that’s in beta at the moment.
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Hi @phoenix1386 welcome! we have a free trial, you should give Blocs a try and see what works best for you Blocs Website Builder - Download Trial
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Thank you @Helen! Indeed, I have already downloaded Blocs 5, and trying it out. Signed up for the community when it became clear that I will be investing in the software!
Currently going through your documentation. While I have you, would you kindly point me out how to create navigation dropdown menus?
I did, but, they do not show as expected (in trial preview). Everything is default, no padding applied or removed.
The demo dropdown contains 5 options.
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That’s great @phoenix1386 I hope you are enjoying the trial. This Blocs Bytes video may help you.
Many thanks!
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Well, I had instinctively done exactly that. However, my dropdown did not show.
I say did because, once I closed Blocs and reopened the demo file, it asked for some global updating with regards to some components, and later on, I previewed the menu to find that it works!
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As a long time user of Stacks, which I love, but took on Blocs after Foundry ceased, I have to say in this short space of time so far I love Blocs. It is the rock solid interface with it being its own app, the design functionality is proably dest described for comparison as being the love child of Foundation 6 and Foundry (the frameworks for Stacks I have and familar with are Foundation 1, Foundation 6, Foundry 2 and Foundry 3) with a ratio of 65% Foundry and 35% Foundation.
It has the ease and modular approach similar to Foundry with Blocs/Brics, but then the use of classes for styling and functionality similar to Foundation 6. Everyone has their own approaches, preferences and reasons as to what they see as advantages and disadvantages, these are mine:
Advantages:
Is solid, with a well-thought out user-interface.
Doesn’t use its own generated code naming structure, e.g. images in Stacks being renamed.
Classes work globally, really easy to change styling, fonts, colours, styling for anything across the whole project easily.
Header and footer work globally without need for partials, with partials being needed to be opened, edited, saved etc, which can be frustrating when wanting to make slight incremental gradual changes to something.
Has a great CMS available for it that isn’t tied or licenced to a domain or a third party server to run. This is Volt, it is like Alloy on steroids.
Disadvantages
No where near the amount of third party Brics available as Stacks for quite niche and specialised feaatures. Using Blocs I’m really missing the stacks of One Little Desinger such as Cycledex, Configure and Hidden Panels and then Joe Workman’s stacks such as Points, Peekaboo, PWA Pro all these are just to name a few.
Its a great app, I’d reccomend it, I’m really hoping though that time will bring more third party Brics for this quirky specialist things.
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Thank you for your input; so is mine, too. I realized that it was rather instantaneous how I was able to place a structure, nestle some content blocks, paragraphs, imagery, and come up with a mock up of how the page would look like. It was swift, and that moment sold me on Blocs.
Sure, there is a learning curve, but I was/ am sold on how easily I could add blocs and brics to build a functional website and just how much is available out of the box. And then there is the magic of being able to make changes on the go with my iPhone/ iPad.
I am now waiting on version 6 to be released, as, if I am not wrong, it is imminent. I can wait a day or two. 
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I’d go for it now and start getting your head in to it, there is usually some upgrade thing that goes on with software for folk that buy just prior to release of a new version I guess? The learning curve at first was a bit steep as ‘muscle memory’ wanted me to do things certain ways, whereas I had to apporach them slightly differently. I took one of the medium-largish websites I’ve created for somebody in Foundry as my learning curve. I thought from now on it will be best maintained and continuously evlove in Blocs.
Believe me it drove me nuts at first, the design from small up to large first for settings in order for settings in X small to pass on to medium breakpoints etc. Times I made a change in Medium then found I had to modify changes at all other breakpoints as I’d broken the chain or something like that. Then on the flipside of that make changes to classes the opposite descending from XL down to X small. That drove me nuts, but now (almost) developed a new ‘muscle memory’ 
Last week somebody asked me to change some details on their site I had created in Foundry, I opened up and had to dig down in to the depths of my memory to remember what I should be doing in Foundry, it’s only been a month, maybe a bit more.
Recreating something I had made really helped as it made me see what I need to do to achieve the same. The automatic padding of 100px on a new Bloc still keeps catching me out though, looks good, then when I view on an iPad and there is a big gap I think “Damn!”
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