Tutorials
Find a new fix, CSS trick or workflow tip for your Squarespace client projects.
Highlights: The Website Designer Summit 2025
If you’re a Squarespace designer, you may have heard about the second edition of Liz Ellery’s Website Designer Summit that just took place yesterday, February 27, 2025. Aaand if you’re a VIP of my email list, you most certainly did! However, if you did not get a chance to catch it – nor have watched the replays – I want to share with you the truth-bombs, golden nuggets and overall amazing insights the speakers casually dropped in their presentations and talks.
Creating a scrolling text header button in Squarespace (7.1)
Want to make the header button of your Squarespace project unmissable? Then why not turn it into a mini scrolling marquee with today's CSS trick! Let's get to it.
Creating an animated loading screen for Squarespace
Let’s tackle how to build a loading screen or splash page for Squarespace sites that’s totally animated!
How to create a business info bar above the header in Squarespace
In today’s tutorial, we’ll be creating a business info bar that carries the hours, email and phone number of a hypothetical company with the help of HTML and our friend, CSS.
Changing the accordion block icon when a dropdown is open
If you want to add a little fun customization to your client’s accordion block, then this tutorial is for you! We'll be looking at how to use two custom icons for the accordion block items in Squarespace: one when the dropdowns are open and a different one when they are closed. Spoiler alert: the customization is easier than you think!
How to create responsive text, WITHOUT media queries, in Squarespace
In today's video, we'll be tackling how to handle responsive text in Squarespace with ONE line of code and no media queries. Take a look!
How to create a hover mode for anything in Squarespace
In this week's video, we'll be looking at the steps behind creating a hover mode for anything you want in Squarespace. Sounds good? Then let’s jump right into it!
5 tips to troubleshoot your Squarespace code
In today’s video, I want to share with you 5 different things you can look for when the code you added to your client’s Squarespace site isn’t working. These troubleshooting tips cover a vast majority of the issues you’ll encounter when using code in Squarespace or any other platform, so let’s jump right in!
4 tips to improve your Squarespace customization workflow
This week we’ll look at 4 ways we can improve our customization workflow in Squarespace to save time, and make our code a lot easier to tweak when rounds of revisions come along!
Why is there extra spacing around headings on my live Squarespace site?
Want to find out how to remove that odd spacing that shows up on some Squarespace headings, only on live mode? Then take a look at today’s CSS trick!
Create quick jumps or anchor links in Squarespace
Today's code trick is all about how to create quick jumps (aka anchor links or anchor points) in Squarespace 7.0 and 7.1, using index pages or regular pages. AND how to stop your fixed navigation from getting in the way…
Why your Google Font isn't showing up in your Squarespace site on mobile
Today we’re taking a closer look at the reasons why your Google Font may not be showing up on your Squarespace site on mobile, and what you can do to fix it!
5 most useful types of page ID in Squarespace
Let’s take a look at 5 of the most useful types of Squarespace ID we can use in our projects to customize specific areas or pages of our site!
Adding a fixed background to your Squarespace site
Have you ever seen those gorgeous site examples where everything seems to just float on top of the background image while scrolling? Well, if you’ve been inspired by them at some point and would like to implement the look in your client’s design, today’s tutorial is for you!
Create vertical lines in Squarespace
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!
Find your unique page ID in squarespace
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…
Adding a back to top button to your Squarespace template
In Squarespace, there are a couple of ways to add a sticky back to top button with custom code, by using CSS and/or JQuery. But don’t worry, even if you don’t know code these are pretty simple to implement. Take a look!
Adding custom fonts to your Squarespace site
So you’ve got your amazing brand all set, you finally decided on your fonts and now you’re starting to design your site on Squarespace. Great! But hang on, that gorgeous brush script you just chose is not in the editor's font list… crap, now what?