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Stripe’s New Website
Stripe has updated the design on their website and it looks great. Where my web design nerds at!?
CSS Entities (Changing Default Bullet Types)
Have you ever used the content:””; property in order to create a pseudo-element? Well there are tons of things you can do instead of just using this property for a blank element to create an image or video overlay. Like, say, changing the default bullet icons in Squarespace.
Tabs (For Blocks)
✓ Super Easy Installation
✓ Edit The Content of Your Tabs Normally
✓ Customizable CSS
✓ Multiple Tab Groups per Page
✓ 3 Designs To Choose From
✓ Mobile Friendly
Tabs (For Sections)
✓ Super Easy Installation
✓ Great for Gallery Sections
✓ Edit The Content of Your Sections Normally
✓ Customizable CSS
✓ Multiple Tab Groups per Page
✓ Mobile Friendly
How to Add Tabs In Squarespace 7.0 and 7.1
In this tutorial, I walk you through how I build tabs in Squarespace. If you’re a designer and just wanting a quick and easily solution to adding tabs to your site, I have a plugin for that, check out the bottom of this article for a Free Demo of how to add tabs.
Change the Background Color on Scroll
Here is a pretty cool way to change the background color of a section in Squarespace 7.1.
Split Screen Layout Design Pack
✓ Easy Editor Mode - Edit your section content normally without jumping into the code
✓ Add Multiple Split Sections (2 or more across)
✓ Scrolling Content Within Section
✓ Use Gallery Sections
✓ Add Borders (Spacing) around the Blocks
✓ Add a Full-Width Gallery Section
✓ Simple setup with Installation Video
Split Screen Layout Design in Squarespace 7.1
Split Screen Layout Designs are all the rage! I have an article, video, code for you to get started with your Split Layout Designs in Squarespace 7.1. I also have some additional designs pack for Split Screen Layouts with some extra features.
Adding a Search Bar To Your Header In Squarespace 7.1
Hey there Squarespace-ers. I received this question from someone recently and I thought I’d share a solution for it!
Just wondered if you know a way to get a search bar/icon into the main header navigation? Squarespace 7.0 used to have this option in styles, but there is no option in 7.1 - Do you think this can be coded?
- Michael
Adding a Background Image to a Button in Squarespace (plus a few other cool effects)
How to add a background image to a button on the Squarespace website. This post quickly jumps into doing that, and then some more.
Words of Wisdom: Making the Inevitable Obvious
Many people in the website/web design industry are young. As for myself, I’m 30, which I consider to be very young. And while I think my technical skillsets in coding are advanced, there are many life and business skills that I can only get from years and years of experience. So I’m always on the lookout for articles like this.
Changing the Color Theme Background to Gradient in Squarespace 7.1
This is how you can modify your CSS code so that one 'color theme' in Squarespace 7.1 can have gradient background each time you apply that theme.
Changing the Image Overlay Opacity on Image Blocks in Squarespace 7.1
In the code section, I’ve provided a CSS snippet for each each different image block that you might want to apply an opacity too.
Sliding Image Banner
✓ Works in Squarespace 7.1 & 7.0 Brine Templates
✓ Auto-advance slider
✓ Play / Pause button
✓ Slider Dots
✓ Gradient overlay on background-images
✓ Additional button layouts
✓ Same easy setup and install
Super Easy Image Slider in Squarespace [updated]
I’ve rebuilt this from the ground up to be more integrated with Squarespace’s platform, super simple to install, and with a paid version that has an auto transitions for the slider.
Testimonials Slider Using Summary Block
A testimonial plugin for Squarespace that uses the summary block, so you can use it throughout your website, and it doesn't link out to the blog page.
Ghost Plugins Shares How To Add Gallery Block in 7.1
Man do I love the Squarespace community.
Cody and his team over at Ghost Plugins has figured out a way to add the fully functioning Gallery Images block to any page in Squarespace 7.1 using a Squarespace Websites plugin.
I haven’t tried it yet, but I watched the quick little video Cody put together and it looks like it works great. If you haven’t used and of the Ghost Plugins on your website before, you definitely need to try them out - they’re fantastic.
Background Video Overlay Opacity in Squarespace 7.1
Background images and videos are a necessity for modern websites. The problem with them thought, is that it’s sometimes difficult to read any text that is on top of them. In order to solve this problem, you’ll want to add an overlay between the image and the text. In this tutorial, I’ll go over a quick and easy solution to this.
Simple Tab Sections in Squarespace 7.0 & 7.1
This is a great plugin to get quick and easy tabbed sections on your website as well as start to dabble in learning Javascript.
Adding a Banner Image to a Blog in Squarespace 7.1
In this tutorial with code, I’m going to show you how to add a banner image to the top of a blog post like they do in the Wall Street Journal.