Will-Myers

09/12/2024

Circle Day is less than a week away, Wednesday Sep 18th, and I can’t wait to see many of you there.

and I are going to be taking our to the main stage and be talking about 7 ways to save time and reduce overwhelm in your business.

To be honest, can’t say we’re the experts on this subject, but then again, who is? We are just excited to be sharing some things that have (and haven’t) worked for us in this area.

But mostly I’m excited for another chance to connect with this wonderful community, in person or online. If you haven’t registered (free) yet, go to will-myers.com/cdr to register.

05/11/2022

Where should you start when learning to code?

When should you raise your rates?

Why did Ren decide to marry me?

and I have our brave pants on and we’re ready to answer any and all of your questions.

Come join us next Tuesday, May 17th, at 11am (EST) and hear us answer your questions about all things Squarespace, coding, and running an online business. No question needed in order to join us though!

Register using the link below ⬇️ or using the link in my bio. If you can’t make it, register anyway so you can watch the replay!

See you there!

https://www.crowdcast.io/c/christyprice-may22

04/22/2022

Sick of scrolling through endless CSS in your Custom CSS area trying to find that one piece of code? Use these 4 Best Practices for organizing your code. Your future-self will thank you.

02/15/2022

Reduce the width of the folders in your main nav. Swipe to see the code.

The default width of the main nav folder is 200px, so any size value smaller than 200px will reduce the default with. You’re also using the min-width property here to allow the folder to be wider if you have long folder names.

Curious about what that 15ch value means? 1ch unit is the width of the “0” character. So 15ch is as wide as fifteen 0’s lined up next to each other. This is a great unit to use when sizing elements (like our folder) based on lengths of text (like links within a folder).

Keep building.

Website Cred: Rosie at www.createyou.us

05/24/2021

Did you know you can convert color values in the website inspector? Simply hold down on SHIFT and click on any colored box. This will toggle the color value between HSL, HEX, and RGB.

When creating websites, I always like to use the HSL color value. I find it the simplest to build an entire color pallet from. So this trick is super handy for me to convert colors that I see on the web into my preferred color value.

05/12/2021

When I was first getting started with building websites and coding, I had a client ask about replacing their logo in their main nav, but only on a specific page of their website.

This client wanted a page on their site that featured a new brand they were planning to launch soon, and they wanted the logo on that page to be the logo of their new brand. Seems simple, but of course, it wasn’t- Squarespace doesn’t have a native way to switch this out, so I was stuck Googling for hours trying to figure out how to make it happen.

I eventually found some code and was able to work it out, but what should have only taken me a few minutes took me a several hours. Ultimately it was worth it, because this experience was one of the first ones that put me on the path to learning code, and I was able to give my client exactly what they wanted.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to replace the Site Title or Site Logo on specific pages within your Squarespace Website.

Link In Bio

04/09/2021

Marketing is an effort to encourage trust in your business and make sure that people know what you offer and how it could benefit them. This process is a lot less linear. I prefer to think of the customer’s journey less of moving from one step to the next, and more as kind of swirling around in a twisty marketing-phase cloud until the customer decides to make a purchase.

https://www.will-myers.com/articles/market-every-day

04/06/2021

Built this more as an intro level tutorial for reference purposes, but even more experienced designers might find some value.

"In this tutorial, let’s talk about the ways in which we can add Custom CSS to a Squarespace site, the benefits / tradeoffs of each of these options, and adding comments to our code."

In this tutorial, let’s talk about the ways in which we can add Custom CSS to a Squarespace site and the benefits / tradeoffs of each of these options. There are 4 main places you can add CSS onto your website: The Custom CSS Area The Page Header Code Injection Area Code Block Site Heade

04/02/2021

New Tutorial: Make background images blurry and other fun effects.

A tutorial on adding blur effects in Squarespace. I will go over adding this effect in Squarespace 7.1, but if you’re on Squarespace 7.0, I have some code for you at the bottom. Blurring an image is actually quite simple through CSS, all we need to use is the filter property.

03/29/2021

New plugin! Sidebar nav for Squarespace 7.1 like we had in 7.0. Check out the demo here.

Easily add a sidebar page navigation component to you Squarespace website. Choose from 4 different sidebar options: bars, dots, sliding indicator, and text-only.

03/22/2021

New post about switching the month and day fields on Squarespace forms. Don't use CSS!

Let’s switch the date and month fields from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY. Us American’s (as well as a few other stragglers) are sticking to our confusing date configurations. And as long as Squarespace doesn’t update their form date fields, you will also have to deal with it.

12/11/2020

New Overflow Carousel Plugin

Create a unique overflow effect when listing your blog post items.

You can check out a live version of this plugin on my new home page and you can get the new plugin here:

Have your carousel items scroll in from the side of the page to give it a nice overflow effect. ✓ Super Easy Installation ✓ Easy to Edit ✓ Works in Squarespace 7.0 & 7.1 ✓ Easy to Hand-off ✓ Mobile Friendly ✓ Touch to Scroll