Great step up and ahead! Since this week just before starting the Mobirise website software builder 2.14.2 article I was playing around with animations and triggering them when they get in sight I of course love the entire animated behavior you did. The new iconic fonts are also great!
Please understand me correctly - I appreciate the hard work behind this, so what is up do be said I only in my effort to help you make it better. So here are the things I noticed, I think should be corrected (I'm also attaching some images hopefully to better illustrate what I mean):
The menu modules appear enormous in the builder menu. They display as it should in browser but this giant stripe (if you are using the "Sticky"option) gets in the way through the creation process;
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Brand name doesn't display in Builder - does in browser though;
It's great you've included two type of buttons - solid fill and outline with solid on hover. I love the new palette too. But the outline button appears rarely in just few blocks - what if a common user sees the outline button and says "I want to make it with this kind of buttons all the way down! "?
As I said the animations are great! But I think the deep hidden way they get triggered generally stands in the way all over the process and I'll tell you why:
- since a script controls them the code editor becomes useless for setting for example a different entrance than fadeInUp or for example delays of the entrance of the different elements;
- the scrolling process in browser gets laggy and jumpy which distracts the whole impression - user starts to wonder what's going on, scrolling up/down and waiting for the site to stop jumping around;
- sugar and candy are great, but eating too much sweet can make you feel sick - that's my vision about special effects in general - they should be used with measure and sense for the place and moment. My point here is there should be a way for the Mobirise User to choose to either use animated entereances or not. Furthermore - what is interesting and different seen a few times gets boring and part of the background when seen a hundred times. - There should be a way turning ON/OFF for a section and at least a Code Editor access for entrance type and timing selection.
With the gallery block when viewed in browser I got confused about controlling the images in the lightbox - the controls loaded about 3-5 seconds later leaving me wondering - maybe a shorter delay?
The article header block has a little bug in Builder - padding options affect only the overlay div. Does display correctly in browser though;
Love the striped features blocks. I think though nevertheless the dark grey is universal color you should consider adding color option for these stripes in the Preferences Panel; Also, and this counts for multiple blocks - duplicating a button offsets the new one a bit right - it's not that uncommon to have few buttons under a section, so I think the common user should be able to just click and add well aligned button without the help of Code Editor;
The article blocks are great - clean, simple with the most common layouts. I noticed that styling a text as Code results a single scrolable line in browser. Adding a new line in Builder breaks the code section in two single line scrolling sections. I think this shouldn't be this way - how one could publish a snippet?
I recently experienced a strange thing with the google maps blocks - with a certain hosting provider it refused to load without explicitly provided Google API key. Issue resolved through Notepad# but it would be good to have something like "API Key (optional)" field in Properties panel - this behavior could push a common user away from Mobirise for good, espacially when it shows at the end of the process - when site gets live.
In this line of thoughts I think boxed Gmaps should have padding options;
There is an unexpected behavior in the share block - it happens only with the VKontakte button when you hover over, wait for the hover state to activate ( normally a few seconds) and click. I think it's most common to happen with inexperienced user clicking around to see what will happen.
The follow icons are great, but I think there should be also an option for adding items alongside with deleting them
In this line of thoughts I think the golden border is rather stylish but not quite sure it would fit any color scheme - these elements should be either more neutral or adjustable from the common user;
Regarding the Pricing tables I think the old block has better functionality - like the styling though. Not sure if extra appearances except Favorite and Default are needed. From a designer point of view - this styling is too engaging - think of a minimal design with white and a single pastel cold color and a new user.
I still miss functionality. In the beautiful stable and well thought native Mobirise themes I still miss a functionality like modals, accordions/toggles tabbed content. Since the buggiest Unicore had them (and they were actually the only decent thing in it) I think native themes should have some too.
Regarding the overall experience with the Builder and website software builder 3 theme - I find it struggling a bit compared with the Native theme. Also, as I mentioned earlier - the generated sites have a noticeable lag in scroll which is capable of spoiling the user experience with in other ways beautifully designed site.
Great work guys! I hope I've helped a bit too with this feedback.
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Just one more thing - the first block after navbar controls seem to overlap the controls of the navbar itself. I used to fix this just changing the project name and _afterNavbar value manually in the project.mobirise file but now it seems to do some kind of rewrite, replacing "true"with ".mbr-section > .mbr-box__magnet" but the end result is overlapping controls again.
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I just spent few hours digging around trying to find a reasonable way customizing the animations behavior - I think for the regular user this task would be rather difficult to accomplish.
In addition I asked a few people to look at the test site without telling them about the jumpy scroll - they all had an issue with it though.
I think you should consider another approach on this one.