PIXELHAZE ACADEMY BLOG
We aim to post regular blog posts about Squarespace online training, design software and the latest technology for designers and small business owners. Would you like to guest post or have a topic request? Please contact us here.
FREE Squarespace Plugins for Rollover Effects on Images
To enhance your website with unique features, we have developed a selection of FREE Squarespace plugins, These plugins are available at no cost, allowing everyone to easily integrate them into their Squarespace websites.
How to make two Squarespace List items move together
We often use code to provide functionality to our client’s websites that Squarespace doesn’t natively support. In this blog post, I’ll give you the code to make 2 Squarespace List items move together.
Free Squarespace Plugins: 11 Free Squarespace CSS Custom Code to spruce up SQSP
We like CSS here at PixelHaze, it sits on the cusp of technical and visual work - uniting both sides of the brain (and both sides of our team).
We’ve developed numerous plugins utilising CSS, which you can check out here, but we’d also like to share some cool little snippets that can help personalise your site.
How to add a 3rd party payment gateway to your Squarespace site (2022 update)
For 3rd-party payment gateways with Squarespace, PayPal and Stripe are two of the largest and most dependable payment providers for transactions on the web; However, PayPal and Stripe are not supported in every country.
How to add a Google Drive folder to your Mac Finder's favourites sidebar
As we’re a web design agency (and I’m guessing a lot of you are too), we have an extensive collection of design assets (pictures, movies, artwork, etc…) that take up a colossal amount of storage space. We could make use of external hard drives or upgrade our PC’s with greater storage capacities…but we’re tight and lazy, so Google Drive it is!
How to display Mobile Squarespace Galleries as a single column with CSS
In an ever-growing series of blog posts aimed at alleviating some truly irritating Squarespace quirks, we’ve arrived at how you can tailor Squarespace Galleries to display images in a single column.
How to add reCAPTCHA to your Squarespace forms
reCAPTCHA is a free service that protects your website from spam and abuse. Here’s a quick guide demonstrating how you can easily add this extra layer of security to Squarespace forms.
How to use custom fonts in Squarespace
Squarespace has quite a large font selection built-in for your to choose from when designing your website. But if you're looking for a particular custom font as a part of your branding or you're trying to achieve a specific effect with your font selection then this article will go through four easy steps to explain how to use custom fonts on Squarespace.
Introducing the PixelHaze Squarespace Templates
We’re ecstatic to announce that we’re releasing our own range of Squarespace templates.
We’re very passionate about web design, having created 300+ Squarespace websites for clients across many different industries; that means our Squarespace templates are products of our experience.
Squarespace SEO: How to track anchor links in Google Analytics with Google Tag Manager
Recently, I had a client ask if we could use the “Meet the Team” section on the homepage to track which of their staff and their respective services were generating the most interest; from this information, we could craft blog posts and other content to keep site visitors more engaged.
Squarespace SEO: Core Web Vitals Becoming Ranking Factors May 2021
Google has confirmed that Core Web Vitals are becoming an official ranking factor in May 2021.
But, what are Core Web Vitals? How can you view the Core Web Vitals of your own site? How will this affect the SEO of my Squarespace site?
Quick Access - Anchor Links Plugin for Squarespace
Introducing the Anchor Links plugin! The plugin offers a simple way to flow through a page with the introduction of a submenu, which sticks to the bottom left-hand side of the screen. Test it for yourself! The Plugin has been installed into this blog post. Make a splash!
Squarespace 7.1 CSS Tips: Transparent Navigation on a Gallery Section
Recently, we had a project that focused heavily on the photography on the site; we loved the aesthetic that the transparent navigation gave as it didn’t detract from the beauty of the images.
Styling Separate Squarespace 7.1 Sections with CSS
I spend a lot of my time with code (cool, I know) and I’m always looking to add a distinct flourish to websites with CSS, so sometimes I need to drill the styles section by section so that what I’m adding doesn’t get applied to the whole page, or even the whole site (heaven forbid).
CSS tips and tricks for Squarespace
With the release of our brand new range of Squarespace plugins, I thought it would be beneficial to write an article on some helpful tips and tricks that go into individualising websites with CSS.
CSS Overlapping Logo
In this blog article, I will give you the code you need to create a logo that escapes the confines of its masthead.
CSS Rollover effects on Squarespace image blocks
Squarespace boasts a variety of tools to help designers construct beautiful webpages, but sometimes custom code is needed to make a webpage truly unique.
JavaScript: automatically update the year in your footer
Forgetting to update trifling elements of a web page is something that I am guilty of, as I am sure a lot of you are as well. But worry not, as I have a very quick and easy trick to alleviate at least some of that aggravation!