Squarespace FAQ > Visual Customization (15 entries)
Questions relating to customizing the visual appearance of your Squarespace site.
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Layouts are templates that tell Squarespace how to display your site, or in technical terms, they tell Squarespace what HTML to write to the browser. Layouts are made up of two ...
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A style represents visual customizations on top of a layout. Whereas editing an HTML template may be hard or time consuming (only attempted by users who want extreme control), editing a ...
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Yes. Squarespace provides you with many options for layouts and styles, but if you'd like, we provide advanced tools that allow you to customize and build layouts and styles you develop ...
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Yes. See the export feature in your Layout Repository or from within the style selection page.
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Sometimes. Some Squarespace layouts rely on fixed width images for presentation. You may not easily increase the width of these layouts. Other times, Squarespace layouts do not rely on such mechanisms, ...
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These notices may be changed via the 'General Configuration' area under the 'Structure & Style' portion of your website manager.
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In your website manager, under [Structure & Style > General Configuration > Locale].
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To make an image appear as a custom banner on your website, you must create a custom style for your website. To do this, go to the 'Appearance' section under the ...
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To change fonts, colors and other visual elements, navigate to the [Structure & Style > Appearance] section of your site manager. Once there, you will find many pre-defined styles that you ...
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Only a certain set of fonts will work consistently across the web, and across all of the various clients that will be accessing your website. Squarespace's font choosers contain lists of ...
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In order to produce the final visual style for your site, elements from Customizable Elements are combined with elements from the Custom CSS tab of your site. Some designs on Squarespace ...
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Occasionally, your style will have a background color specified by an image rather than by a color in your Customizable Elements area. In order to adjust the colors in this image, ...
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While Squarespace does provide the most common site elements that most people will use, there are a lot more that are not shown. We don't show these because most of our ...
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The size of the banner space is dependent on what layout you've selected, and what width you've selected for your layout (if it's one of our dynamic width layouts). Similarly, ...
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You should use the image editing program that you've used to create your image to add text to it. There is no way to overlay text from your site manager ...