I remember the first website I created in Squarespace. It was for a company who wanted their mailing address on the contact page. Easy, right? Except that I couldn’t get the spacing between lines to look right! Every time I pressed return, I got a paragraph break with extra space between the lines…

The Squarespace Galapagos theme is a great theme for quickly getting an online store up and running. What it misses in styling options, it makes up for with its minimalist simplicity. However, sometimes it’s nice to change a thing or two to make a template your own.

I found a Cover Page layout that worked, but in its Style Panel it looked like I was stuck with a logo that was much too small. Fortunately, there is a workaround and the Cover Page turned out beautifully with a nice, large logo. Here’s how…

I tried out Linktree for my Instagram account and it was so ugly. You can upgrade to the paid account and make styling changes, but I’m frugal. I can’t justify shelling out $6 a month for something I could do myself. So I figured out how to make my own alternative to Linktree and I’ll share those steps with you here.

There are two pieces of custom CSS I add to every Squarespace website I build. To add these code snippets, navigate to Design > Custom CSS, paste the code…

As the newest Squarespace template family, Brine family templates offer a fantastic degree of customization. I’ve put together a few examples for Inspiration in this blog post.

In some Squarespace templates (like the Brine family), it’s super easy to add your Social Media icons to the header navigation since it’s a built-in function of the template. But in other template families like York, Avenue, Bedford, and Pacific, it requires a bit of a workaround.

My site uses the Bedford Squarespace template which is a great fit for my style and content. But there are a few features that don't work for me. Chief among these is the banner image on individual blog posts. For Bedford, and a few other themes, when you view a blog post at its direct URL, its post thumbnail image displays as a banner.

How to style an embedded PayPal button on Squarespace.