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Mobile design, All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0, 7.1, 7.1 CE Beatriz Caraballo Mobile design, All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0, 7.1, 7.1 CE Beatriz Caraballo

How to adjust your page/index section height on mobile (7.0 & 7.1 CE)

If you like creating really immersive designs for your clients, chances are you love setting your index sections (7.0) or page sections (7.1) to the full height of your screen. The effect looks amazing on desktop but, on smaller screens, that extra space can be a little bit too much…

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All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0, 7.1, Full width Beatriz Caraballo All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0, 7.1, Full width Beatriz Caraballo

How to make any block full width in Squarespace (7.0 & 7.1)

So, your client’s design includes some blocks that should be displayed in full width, while others stick to the boundaries of the site. And you’ve been trying to make that happen for the past couple of hours (days?) without luck? If so, then today’s tutorial is for you!

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All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0, Learn code Beatriz Caraballo All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0, Learn code Beatriz Caraballo

Customizing multiple index sections at the same time (Brine 7.0)

Brine makes customizing our client sites fairly easy by allowing us to use the URL slug as the index section ID, so we can quickly target things in our CSS. However, when there are multiple index sections involved, it can become time-consuming and repetitive to write the same customizations for each area over and over again…

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Mobile design, All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0 Beatriz Caraballo Mobile design, All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0 Beatriz Caraballo

Resizing banners on mobile in Squarespace (Brine 7.0)

One of THE most frequent questions I get involves resizing index page banners on smaller screens. So, even when this may not be a perfect solution for all of your designs, today I’d like to share with you a fairly simple workaround that can give you WAY more control over this issue!

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Mobile design, All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0 Beatriz Caraballo Mobile design, All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0 Beatriz Caraballo

Adjusting the number of blog items per row, for tablets, in a Brine blog page (7.0)

If you have your blog pages on Brine set to 3 or more items per row in desktop, chances are you’re not entirely happy with the end result on smaller screens. Particularly, if you have thumbnail + title + metadata + excerpt showing, your lovely desktop layout is probably squishing up in tablets. So, why don’t we do something about it?

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All CSS tricks, Customization tips, Center-align, 7.0, 7.1 CE Beatriz Caraballo All CSS tricks, Customization tips, Center-align, 7.0, 7.1 CE Beatriz Caraballo

Center-align card, overlap and collage blocks with heavy content (7.0 & 7.1 CE)

Today we’ll be tackling an issue that becomes particularly annoying when for some reason card, overlap, and collage blocks make it really hard to vertically align your content to the center of the image… completely ignoring your Site Style settings.

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Changing the color of your heading, menu items and site title, only on one page in Brine (7.0)

In today’s post, we’ll be looking at what you can do when your menu navigation is readable over certain banners but not over others, without having to add a background color to it or changing the images altogether.

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How to align footer text to the center in mobile screens (Brine 7.0)

Have you ever wanted to center-align text inside your footer in smaller screens while keeping it left or right-aligned in tablets and desktop? The process and code are quite simple BUT, particularly when you originally have text aligned to the right there are additional steps required to have full control over the mobile result.

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All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0, Color change, Background Beatriz Caraballo All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0, Color change, Background Beatriz Caraballo

Changing the background color of the bottom header on just one page in Brine (7.0)

When you’re working with the Brine template, and you’re using the bottom header, the navigation can overlap nicely over banner images, but that means you have to settle for a “backgroundless” header in all of the non-banner pages… or do you?

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Mobile design, All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0, 7.1, 7.1 CE, 7.1 FE Beatriz Caraballo Mobile design, All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0, 7.1, 7.1 CE, 7.1 FE Beatriz Caraballo

Controlling gallery block grid images per row in mobile (7.0, 7.1 CE & 7.1 FE)

I want to walk you through a nifty little CSS trick that you can use to rearrange your gallery block grid images in smaller devices, so you can choose how many thumbnails or slides to display per row!

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All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0, 7.1, 7.1 CE, 7.1 FE, Fonts, Spacing Beatriz Caraballo All CSS tricks, Customization tips, 7.0, 7.1, 7.1 CE, 7.1 FE, Fonts, Spacing Beatriz Caraballo

How to create a multi-column text block in Squarespace, without using separate blocks (7.0, 7.1 CE & 7.1 FE)

This depends on the font you’re using and the styles you’ve set for it, but most often than not, you feel you need just a bit more space between both columns. The problem is if you shove a spacer in there, the gap looks more like an airport runway than anything else.

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How to target entire blog pages vs individual blog posts (7.0 & 7.1)

If you’re using blog pages on your client site for different purposes, you may want to be able to customize the content (posts) of just ONE of those blog pages and not the other. A very common situation is when you have a blog page as an actual blog, and another blog page as a portfolio to showcase previous work.

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All CSS tricks, Customization tips, Color change, 7.0, Background Beatriz Caraballo All CSS tricks, Customization tips, Color change, 7.0, Background Beatriz Caraballo

Change the color of your loading screen background (Brine 7.0)

You know when you’re loading your site and you see a flashing or fade-in background color before the content on your page fully loads? This may not be happening on all of your pages – or even if you’re using a template outside the Brine family – but…

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