Interactive video makes it possible to create a richer user experience, increase engagement, and give your brand a personality.

Squarespace’s full-screen and slideshow galleries look beautiful and are immersive, but often they crop your images, cutting off important visual content. As a photographer, artist, or business owner, you may want to maintain more control over how your work is displayed.

The “Manage Custom Files” feature in Squarespace is truly a lifesaver when it comes to uploading PDFs, images, videos, and any other downloadable resources. But if it suddenly quits on you, it can throw a real wrench in your workflow .

Squarespace is an incredible website-building platform for photographers, creatives, and small business owners, but sometimes it doesn’t make it easy to find important information—such as image alt-text. Although alt-text is essential for SEO and accessibility.

Squarespace’s native gallery blocks are gorgeous and functional, but in some cases, one gallery layout might not be the perfect fit for all screen sizes. Maybe your desktop users would be great with a full-on slideshow but your mobile users would like a smaller carousel. Here’s where device-specific galleries can help.

Are your merchandise photos appearing clipped, enlarged, or weird in your Squarespace shop? You're not alone.

As standard, Squarespace applies layout rules - these are often preset and force your product images to have a fixed aspect ratio.

Slide arrows may be a little thing, but they have a massive impact on how your users engage with your galleries and image sliders. Squarespace 7.1 comes with plain white SVG arrows by default

Looking to make a Squarespace section really pop like a proper modal window? Although Squarespace doesn’t have a native lightbox feature for full sections, this is very easy to do in a few lines of custom code.

Squarespace 7.1 comes with a gorgeous, slimmed-down interface for building galleries, but one thing that it doesn’t have built in is the ability to place a custom background image behind a gallery section. Originally, you can add colors in this way, but how about showing a full, rich image background behind your photos or slides?

In this tutorial, you'll discover how to add a full-width background image on a specific gallery section, no plugins or code blocks needed, with only a dead-simple CSS snippet.

Squarespace 7.1 utilizes a robust video framework called Plyr.js for the insertion and control of video blocks. It comes with this standard-centered play button overlay that’s all fine and good for most designs.

Squarespace provides an elegant way to include video as part of your pages, but it seems there is an odd issue - many people find their YouTube videos not flashing up, showing up as blank, or just not appearing at all. If you are experiencing this, you’re not alone.

Gallery Grid Layout by Squarespace is a great way to lay out the grid in a uniform multi-column style on Desktop. But on mobile, the two-column default view can feel a bit cramped, particularly with many portrait-oriented photos, artwork, or minimalist galleries.