Squarespace & Fluid Engine Design Tips
With the advent of Fluid Engine, Squarespace’s newest drag-and-drop editor, it seems creativity and expressibility knows no bounds.
Squarespace and Fluid Engine have ushered in a new era of no code website editing, allowing the DIYer and web designer many ways to showcase their creativity. In this Squarespace Insider Design Tips video, the first in a series I’ll be creating over the coming months, I’ll walk you through adding Text Highlights, Shape Blocks, Section Dividers, Saved Sections, and more!
Watch The Video
Check out the YouTube video below 👇
Text Highlights
Text Highlights are a feature Squarespace released in the past six months that allow you to add emphasis to a piece of text, either a single word or an entire heading, the choice is yours. Now there’s some next level creativity! From animations that draw your text highlight for a set duration of time, to adding borders, color, and added emphasis, Text Highlights are a designer’s dream!
Shape Blocks
Shape Blocks are pre-made shapes added as blocks on the grid-based layout of Fluid Engine - Squarespace’s best drag-and-drop editor yet! This is a hassle-free way to add captivating motifs, and overlap image and text blocks to create modern, striking layouts. You can set your own Shape Block color, add blur effects, a solid or dotted border line, and more. Shape Blocks are a no code solution to true expressibility and customization.
Section Dividers
Section Dividers allow you to add a border to the bottom of each page section on your Squarespace page. With creativity at the forefront of every design choice at Squarespace, they’ve built a way to inject different shapes, strokes, color, and thickness to the border of each page section. It’s a really fun and visually pleasing way to customize the look and feel of any given page section on a Squarespace website.
Saved Sections
Saved Sections are a god send for web designers. They are Squarespace’s way of saving us time and ensuring that color palettes, font packs, alignment, images, and media are captured and saved for future use! To reuse a page section, simply hover over it in edit mode and click the heart icon. Wahlah…you now saved yourself hours of time and are able to duplicate and reuse Squarespace page sections at will!
Your Designer
I'm Travis, an expert Squarespace web designer and 7+ year former Squarespace employee. I have worked with every type of business, building platforms for solo entrepreneurs through to multi-million dollar corporations. If you want to discuss a potential project, you can email on travis@coyotemooncreative.com or get in touch with me here. Alternatively, you can book a 30-minute consultation call here.
