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How to create an overlapping logo in Brine (7.0)
Either because your logo is quite tall or simply because you want to make your header look different, you want to make your logo appear half on the navigation bar and half over your banner image/page. Cool, let’s do it then!
Make your hero banner and text look good on any device (Brine 7.0)
You’re using a gorgeous background image for your banner, and you have the perfect catchy headline to go on top of it. You start by using spacers, trying to find the perfect placement for your lovely headline on top of the image, in a way that looks 100% readable…
Custom testimonial carousel arrows with Summary Block (7.0, 7.1 CE & 7.1 FE)
So you’re using a Summary Block in your Squarespace site as a testimonial carousel, but you want a way to make it look less like… you’re using the Summary Block in Squarespace as a testimonial carousel, lol.
Create vertical lines in Squarespace (7.0, 7.1 CE & 7.1 FE)
Today’s tutorial will be quick an painless, and it will help you create those nice vertical lines you keep seeing everywhere that can be used to guide the eye further down the page, or simply as decoration!
Creating half, angled and floating effect backgrounds in Brine (7.0)
If you’re using one of Brine templates, or pretty much any other template in Squarespace, you’re most likely wanting to make the best out of their banner sections. These can be used in many creative ways to add an extra touch of “huh… I wonder how they did that?“ …
Turning the Gallery Block title into a colorful label (7.0, 7.1 CE & 7.1 FE)
If you’re using a Gallery Block as category thumbnails for your blog, to redirect to your different service packages, or anything else that works best with an identifying label, you’re gonna love today’s customization! We’ll be turning the Gallery Block slide titles…
Creating a simple overlay for your Summary Blocks (7.0, 7.1 CE & 7.1 FE)
Want to see and learn how to do a reaaaaaally cool Squarespace customization? Then you’re in the right place my friend because today we’ll be going through how you can create or add a nice overlay to your summary block thumbnails!
Creating a boxed-in footer in Squarespace (Brine 7.0)
Let’s face it, the footer is the part of our Squarespace design we think about last when it comes to adding customizations. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t show it some love and have it help our site look more custom by giving it a non-default style!
“Podcastifying” Squarespace’s Summary Block (7.0, 7.1 CE & 7.1 FE)
Podcasts are pretty much THE THING right now. So, if you or your client has a podcast that wants to promote on their site, what better way to do that than customizing one of Squarespace’s block to neatly display them?
Meet Ghost: your new resource for free Squarespace plugins (7.0 & 7.1)
Ghost is a digital marketplace for designers to download plugins and code specifically for the Squarespace platform, and I invited Cody – the brains behind the project – to answer a few of the questions that I’m sure popped into your head when reading…
Add custom social icons to your Squarespace header (Brine 7.0)
If you’re doing a custom design, you may be wanting to go all in with things like colors, fonts, patterns and icons. So, if you want to include those gorgeous social media icons you – or your graphic designer –created, keep reading my friend because we’ll be…
Creating vertical text in Squarespace (7.0, 7.1 CE & 7.1 FE)
Oh I know you wanna jump in the vertical text wagon. In fact, you probably already did! Right now you may be using images to contain your vertical text because let’s face it… it’s way easier than figuring out how to it with code.
Expanding the Instagram Block to full width (Brine 7.0)
One of the easiest way to customize any Squarespace site is to expand its blocks to the full width of your design to contrast with the content that has some spacing on the sides. In today’s post we’ll be looking at how to do that with the Instagram block.
Adding a hover mode to your menu items (Brine 7.0)
The simplest way to add a customization to your header in Squarespace is by adding some type of decoration to the menu links that pops up on mouseover. You can do this by adding a line at the bottom or the top, making the font change color, lifting…
How to create a low highlight behind your text (7.0, 7.1 CE & 7.1 FE)
Wondering how to create that cool low highlight that you see behind headings and links all around the interwebs? Then keep reading 'cause I'm gonna show you how to nail it! We're going to be adding the highlight background to one word in a heading…
How to remove automatic hyphens in Squarespace (7.0 & 7.1)
When I talked about changing the size of mobile fonts in Squarespace at the very end of the post I gave you a quick tip on how to turn off automatic hyphenation. However, I wanted to do a separate post about it since there are some things you should…
How to remove header and footer from one page (7.0 & 7.1)
So, you want to create a custom landing page in Squarespace for an opt-in, product, tripwire or even for Instagram and you want to eliminate all distractions from the page so all your visitors have no escape, right? (insert evil laugh here). In that case you…
Find your unique page ID in squarespace (7.0 & 7.1)
Want to add some CSS to just one page on your site, that's NOT an index section? Don't want to add the code to your page's settings? Then you're going to want to find your page's unique ID to make all the changes you like on just one page of your Squarespace…
Change the size of mobile fonts in Squarespace (7.0, 7.1 CE & 7.1 FE)
Not feeling happy with how Squarespace is resizing your fonts in mobile? Then let's do something about it shall we? In today's quick tutorial I'm going to show you how you can easily change the size of your fonts in mobile view. Let's go!
How to overlap headings in Squarespace (7.0 & 7.1 CE)
I'm a big fan of overlapping text on purpose to create cool-looking headers, I feel this gives a more interesting look to a rather "standard" section of your website without overthinking it. So, if you love mixing fonts and want to add a unique touch to…