Am I correct in assessing the site builder with limited ability to edit the design of the pages?
Hello @Crystal_Wizard !
Compared to a WordPress site or similar, you are right that we have more limited customization of our site elements. We do have various design styles of our text elements however (check out the Button element for more!).
What we can do is move the elements around on the page to better suit the flow of the site. While we can't really do custom columns and side bars, I feel that the sites can be made to be pretty unique. I do wish that themes were opened to third party developers though so we could have some more customization.
What I recommend is heading over to the Ideate section of the community and posting your request for more online customization there. That section is monitored by the developers pretty frequently, and if they see a spike in requests they usually act on it.
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