derricksrandomviews

I am afraid that what you want is impossible. Anyone can copy content from a site, if they know how by using screenshots, snipping software or right clicking, copy and paste or using save as function. Drag and drop is another way content is used. Disabling right click may stop some folks, but will not stop them all, and other code as you found out, when you use it, may breakl something else. Images can be watermarked using post processing software, but I don't bother because I choose to just let my work be out there.  This guide will tell you more:
Prevent website content downloading
You can add code into your website header code injection to prevent right clicking but this will not stop screen shot grabbing or image drag and drop onto the desktop :
<script language=JavaScript> var message="Function Disabled!"; function clickIE4(){ if (event.button==2){ alert(message); return false; } } function clickNS4(e){ if (document.layers||document.getElementById&&!document.all){ if (e.which==2||e.which==3){ alert(message); return false; } } } if (document.layers){ document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN); document.onmousedown=clickNS4; } else if (document.all&&!document.getElementById){ document.onmousedown=clickIE4; } document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(message);return false") </script>

Yes. You can use Gallery Block - Design: Grid to achieve this. 

@derricksrandomviews I nominate you as the Official Ambassador for the Avenue template 😉

You can with Avenue, just add a video block to a page, and hit the plus sign in the edit window to add a video. A menu comes up with upload file (30 mins max) or add a link or select from library. This feature has not been up very long but it is certainly a good addition. 

You should be able to upload video files to Video Blocks on your 7.0 site too.

Can you describe more detail about this action? When and how do you want to open the cover page?

Search can be added to Avenue as a block or page but not on the nav bar like Skye. The other two that can have it on the Nav bar are Farro and Brine.

http://www.devmadan.com/comics is built on Flatiron.
https://flatiron-demo.squarespace.com/

All Squrespace templates can be good blog sites, some more so than others possibly. Pacific family was one of the first super scroll templates, a "one page" site desgined for restaurants, retail businesses with menus, lists of services and video banners to show off the place. It is also a good wedding site for both the photographer and the couple. 
A blog type, primarily designed to be a blog, is Skye which has a built in multiple listing tweaks. I personally use Avenue for my  blog and photographs. . 
Here is the skye demo and you can see it is a blog site right out of the box:
https://skye-demo.squarespace.com/
Here is my site which doesn't look much like the original template, which is not a bad thing. I will show you both. 
https://avenue-demo.squarespace.com/ it is limited on how to display blog postings until I used summary blocks and changed their appearance  with code 
my random views
As I said any Squarespace template family, 7.1 or 7.0 can be a good looking blog including Pacific some are geared more to be that than others, so your question was a good one. 
 

The answer is no. All templates have the same image functions for external links. I take it the option to "open in new window" toggle is not available in the image editor where  you want to use a link? Single image blocks have that option toggle, images in a gallery do not. Also if lightbox is enabled for an image block the url link option is removed. 

Hi,
You want to replace current domain with new domain?
Just remove current domain & follow this guide to add new domain
https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205812378-Connecting-a-domain-to-your-Squarespace-site
Note, if the current domain uses email services like Google Workspace (Gsuite), or has done SEO, then you will need to do other things to change the domain name.

Derrick! Thank you!!! Whoop. I made the change I wanted, and now I'm going to play with some of these other options you've offered. Thank you! I appreciate the help!

Just for you to examine, here is the code I use for my 7.0 blog summary blocks (should work with 7.1 without any other summary block code of course) The border radius of the summary block item can be adjusted for just about any shape. The read more button has a gradient color which can also be changed easily. Title font and size is also easy to adjust. You can see my summary items here:   
  https://myrandomviews.com/blogsummary
 
// DB Summary Block Design //
img.summary-thumbnail-image.loaded:hover {
 opacity: 0.5;
 }
.summary-title-link {
    font-family: proxima-nova, serif;
    font-size: 18px;
}
.summary-excerpt p {
  font-size: 14px !important;
}
.sqs-block-summary-v2 .summary-item {
  background-color: #ffffff;
  border-radius: 70px 15px 70px 15px;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 15px rgba(100, 100, 100, 100.1) !important;
  -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 15px rgba(100, 100, 100, 100.1) !important;
  box-shadow: 6px 5px 15px rgba(100, 100, 100, 100.1) !important;
}
// DB Summary Content Padding //
.sqs-block-summary-v2 .summary-item .summary-content {
    padding: 20px 40px 20px 40px;
}
// DB Summary Block Button //
.sqs-block-summary-v2 .summary-item-record-type-text .summary-read-more-link {
  display: inline-block;
  margin-top: 10px;
  background: linear-gradient(to right, #F07C63, #E45372);
  color: white;
  border: 0px solid white;
  border-radius: 50px;
  padding: 10px 20px;
 filter: drop-shadow(8px 8px 8px #666666);
}

I spent an hour trying to figure this out before finding this post. Thank you!

Its not set to view even with a password.
If 7.1, you change this in config with      Design- Fonts-Advanced-Site Navigation-Size. 

Nice site, I like the moving banners between sections. Great concept, I wish you a lot of sucess with it. 

Nice site, I like the moving banners between sections. Great concept, I wish you a lot of sucess with it. 

Yes if your subdomain provider allows domain forwarding to specific urls, like to mysquarespacedomain.com/jackgreen.  It is not possible to directly connect a third party sub domain to your site  and direct it to a particular page. GoDaddy offers this service;

Single image blocks on a page will allow you do put descriptions in a text block on the corner. If you use a gallery block on a page you can put a description of the gallery in the corner but not for each image, that can be added to the image in image settings. Other than those options I don't see a way to do this. If I understand your request asking if there is a way to have a descripton of each image in a corner as it shows up in a slide show. 

I have a couple of CTAs  on my landing page which direct to pages on the main site. There are a number of CTAs included in the main site. One is an rss feed registration button to follow.it, one is for leaving a form message, one takes you back to the main story (blog) page from the footer of any blog post.  There are some read more links to offsite urls, and links at the bottom of posts that are in parts from one part to the next one. I try to make it easy to navigate around my two blog pages, one of which is all summary items of the other blog page posts. 

It's slightly limited but you can add the content to a blog and use the summery content block to place it on the pages.

There is a plugin that I think will take care of that:
https://www.squarewebsites.org/squarespace-plugins/universal-filter

Thanks so much! I decided to add the Author names as an additional tag to the blog posts and filter that way, since this was my only workaround for the time being.

Ah, superb, thank you! Hero of the day! 

The way you want your images to layout is exactly the way Wexley template works. That is the template that the site you posted the link to is built on, the same as this one I built. 
https://christinegregoryphotography.com/kisses 
and you have the ablility to switch templates. 
However, as an Avenue user myself I think you have a very good site. The autocolums setting in the index tweaking site styles menu adds a nice looking effect using original aspect ratios for the thumbnails. 
my random views another Avenue Site.