Most mobile phones and a lot of modern computers now have high resolution (Retina) screens, this means they have a higher pixel density. If you want to make the images from your site look really sharp on both standard and high resolution screens, you will need to provide addition versions of your image files with […]
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Content Management Systems
Blocs has integrated support for a range of premium and open source third party content management systems, allowing you to easily create powerful, dynamic websites, that can be updated and contributed to outside of the Blocs application. Blocs currently supports the following CMS’s (Content Management Systems) October CMS – Open Source Pulse CMS – Premium […]
Pulse CMS
This video tutorial covers the basics of creating a Pulse CMS theme with Blocs.
October CMS
This video tutorial covers the basics of creating an October CMS theme with Blocs.
Surreal CMS
Surreal CMS is a very simple and straight forward Content Management System, it lets you set pre-defined areas on web pages that can later be edited once they are hosted and live. Surreal CMS requires that you have an account with them in order to login to their service and make changes to your website. […]
Cushy CMS
Cushy CMS is a very simple and straight forward Content Management System, it lets you set pre-defined areas on web pages that can later be edited once they are hosted and live. Cushy CMS requires that you have an account with them in order to login to their service and make changes to your website. […]
Disqus Comments
Disqus is an amazing service that enables your website visitors to start discussions and add comments to your website pages. The standard way to add support for Disqus to a website is to generate a code snippet for your site and then embed this code snippet into the relevant pages of your site, taking care […]
Text Data Source
In Blocs you have the option to feed certain data values into text Brics. A good example of using a text data source effectively would be when adding a page title to your page content. If a text Bric has its data source set to the current page name, when this page is duplicated, the […]
Column Stacking
There are times when you may wish to change the way columns stack when they are being viewed on different devices such as tablets and mobile phones. Blocs lets you choose whether a column will stack horizontally or vertically depending on the device the site is viewed on. Setting a Columns Stacking Direction To change […]
RTL Text Direction
If you are building a site that will be in Arabic or another language that requires the text to be formatted so it reads from right to left, you will need to switch on RTL within your project so the text formats correctly. Enabling RTL To enable RTL within a Blocs project, first you’ll need […]