Friday
31Jul2009
T. ThompsonAdvanced Customizations
Since launching the new manual a few weeks ago, we noticed the need for more advanced walk-throughs on customizing modules.
Josh jumped on the case, and took to creating a bunch of working examples of our most requested customizations for the photo gallery and journal modules. These sites are live examples, with the exact configurations and CSS you'll need to achieve them. We plan on adding more of these for other modules in the future, to help people achieve some cool, more advanced things with their Squarespace sites.
If you feel like diving into some Custom CSS, jump on over and see the different options you can set up for your Squarespace site.
Reader Comments (22)
Great information - thank you!!
As a relative newcomer to Squarespace, this is great news. I've always wanted to see more more tutorials. More "How we made this" videos. With all the awesome sites your designers are making for Revision3, it'd be great to know how you made some features work on their sites. Some ideas I'd like to incorporate into my own.
While I'll be the first ti say Squrespace is easy to use once you get it, it can still be kind of daunting at first. I hope you guys keep this up. I'd love to see what you guys can come up with for us.
Mark-
I love this format of tutorial, where you see the results combined with the descriptions and screenshots. It tempts me to try new things and gives me ideas on ways to expand my various websites on Squarespace. I hope you do follow-up on the plans to do more.
This is great! Hopefully you will link to these examples from directly within the app. I remember seeing something like this a long time ago but then I couldn't find it again.
I'd kill for custom thumbs (illustrators don't like random crops), lightbox disabling and a way to style/change (perhaps hide) the breadcrumb ">" character.
The multi-gallery option is very handy, but could perhaps be a bit more customizable too.
This definitely helped me out - thank you.
Awesome! I just added two of them to my site. www.benjaminbattalia.com
Would love some more insight on the Portfolio CSS....
I want to apply the hanging date, journal customisation. I have watched the great tutorial on customisaing templates but can't see how or where to inject teh code you have kindly provided.
I don't know CSS, do I need to or get a designer on teh case. I'd really really prefer to do it myself.
Any help much appreciated.
Cheers,
Carl
My journal blog is below:
Carl's PM Blog
ahhh, got it working. Cool. Be cool if the hanging date had the year, too.
Thanks!!
Very useful, thank you.
Keep posting great tips like these, they are very welcome.
Regards
Ricardo
All I can say is AWESOME! This is a great way to show off some of the tools flexibility!
Nice work SquarePeeps! Very useful + Exciting!
Long time SquareSpace user here but I stil enjoy tutorials and reading as they will always give me something new to think about. Keep up the great work!
- Josh
I love the photo gallery options. Thank you
Tyler, can you tell me how to positioning the comment signature to the left of the actual comment as you have done to the newtoyork site. I want to keep the comments below the content but have the signature to the left with a right border - something similar to what Problogger.net have.
Hi there,
I added the mug shots next to journal posts, and it is awesome. However, it really messed up the forum look. I can't figure out how to have the mug shot not go in the forum entries, or at least not have the forum text on top of the mug shot graphic.
You made my day! Any plans to make things like this a configuration choice? Love it!
My Squarespace site: Positive Copy
Question on the photo galleries that I asked on the forums, but am curious if you can answer here.
How can we disable right click save image as in our photo galleries?
Fantastic info. Please keep the ideas coming.
Oh this is fantastic info! keep this stuff a coming :) I have been doing ridiculous work arounds to get journals to display like that. :)
thanks so much!
Just wondering if you have any guide written as to how you have your twitter posts integrated into your blog...I'm really interested in doing something like that but can't begin to figure out how it's done.
Not sure if this has been answered, but if I have a headline go past one line, the second line prints over the top of the icon in the journal by author mug shot customization. Is there a way to make sure the second line has the same indent?