New Design Module - Michael
Design and Skin Customization
I'd have to say my experience when I tried it was a lot more positive, sometimes the page layout could hand, but adding widgets, moving them around always seemed fluid to me.
I think the issue here is like you say Ning users aren't coders per say, but for Jamroom if you want anything other than stock you need to understand 3 things: Smarty, HTML and CSS.
I can highly recommend the courses on Udemy.
The site builder, while nice to have will only ever go so far, even on established ones on WP, like Visual Composer, sometimes they are more hassle than they're worth.
updated by @garymoncrieff: 11/03/14 11:42:04PM