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I am coming to terms with some of the Fluid Engine changes and learning ways around features that used to exist and I'm starting to take advantage of some new features. I just wanted to start a thread that lists out some things I wish that fluid engine allowed or did. Please add on if you have things you wish to see as well. Perhaps Squarespace will take these things into consideration for the next update. 

Here's my wish list so far:

- Centering of blocks on a horizontal plane. I have spent so much time trying to get two or three different blocks to look like they're all centered on a horizontal line. The blocks often have different heights based on what kind of block they are (i.e. a social links block has more padding than say a text block does). So perhaps what I really want is a standard amount of forced padding around the content in blocks. I don't know. This is just super frustrating. Drag and drop is great for flexibility and especially nice for open-concept asymmetrical sites. It is not that great for sites that need to have content displayed in a lined up way.

- The ability to move a block between sections 

- Image / text wrapping without the need for a markdown block. It's great that we can have text bleed over images but I think it is folly to make this the default way that text and images show up together on a page if you drag an image into a text block. Text wrapping was available with the classic editor and I wish it was available with FE. Using markdown blocks to wrap text around images is a pain in the butt. 

- I just really miss the classic editor image /text blocks like the card layout . Surely there is a way to add those as blocks? It is so time consuming and annoying to make text and images line up manually. 

- Better responsive design for browser windows for the the in-between full width and mobile width sized windows (and tablets). Things move around in a weird way with FE when windows are sized down. Sure, you can edit the mobile design but you have to make changes to CSS just for tablet sized things to show up in a way that doesn't look bad?? This is a big problem. Squarespace's responsive design was a huge reason I chose to work within squarespace for most of my clients. Now, the responsive design has been downgraded.  

Thats all for now -- and I'll sign off with this: When I run into a problem that is really annoying to solve within Fluid Engine, I'm simply backtracking and crating what I actually want with the classic editor. Things are going to have to get better for me to exclusively use FE. 

 

 

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