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    MarcWatson reacted to paul2009 in Need to remove grey line on product page   
    The border is standard on these pages.
    You should be able to hide it by adding the following to Design > Custom CSS:
    @media screen and (min-width: 576px) {   .tweak-products-nested-category-type-sidebar.tweak-products-category-title .products.collection-content-wrapper .nested-category-title::after {     opacity: 0;   } }   If this post has helped you, please click a 'Like' or 'Thanks' icon below  ⬇️
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    MarcWatson got a reaction from EarvinChong in Infinite Scroll for 7.1 Blog?   
    Hi Melody, 
    The best solution out there is this tool: https://www.squarewebsites.org/squarespace-plugins/lazy-summaries
    It gives you a lot of options and based on experience works very well. 
    Best of luck! 
    Marcus
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    MarcWatson got a reaction from Tankgurl in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    I've been working and using SQSP as a designer since 2008 when it was version 5. I am in agreement with everyone here that this version is not ready for prime time. I thought I would immediately convert a project I was working on for a new client, into fluid engine page layouts. OMG! This is so not fun to work with and has literally made me noxious trying to figure out how to work with it. It's mind blowing that SQSP released this and even more that there's a whole army of people trying to make it seem like everything is totally cool and awesome! Not cool and definitely lightyears from awesome. 
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    MarcWatson reacted to codeandtonic in "Reveal" Page Transitions   
    Thanks Marc! Glad you like it.
    That's a great tip – I'll make sure to add it to Ghost Marketplace as well 🙂
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    MarcWatson got a reaction from codeandtonic in "Reveal" Page Transitions   
    @codeandtonic
    If I am not mistaken you have something to do with VoxPop? Didn't you take over or something like that?
    I just want to say that your plugin is out of control awesome. You should submit it to Ghost Plugin's Market Place because I can only imagine how many SQSP designers are looking for this but can't find you. Amazing and beautiful work!
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    MarcWatson reacted to codeandtonic in "Reveal" Page Transitions   
    Can't get exactly the same but we can get close. Or do even better.
    Similar page transition animations for Squarespace 7.1 & 7.0
    A (paid) plugin  - quick and easy option if you don't want to tinker with code. I've made a free step-by-step video tutorial for adding page transitions to Squarespace. This is for code nerds 🤓  who want a free DIY solution tailored and learn more code stuff. Either way I recommend using the awesome Animsition jQuery plugin to make page transitions. Both the Squarespace Page Transitions plugin and the video tutorial use that as a foundation. Animsition is great because it has 58 animations, fade, zoom, rotate, flip etc.  Although latest version is from 12th Aug 2017 – that just means the browser support is going to be very broad! Animsition had a lot of people contributing to it so I trust it to be quite robust.   
    Remember – with a loading animations if you have a bug it might prevent loading of the page fully! So make sure to use something reliable (like the options above)
     
    Animation for laterwolf.com – Squarespace 7.0 Brine family only
    I made a "plugin" where you can easily edit the color and opacity.
    Add to Custom CSS:
    /* 🎩 Squarespace Brine Animated Transitions */ //Edit loading slider color and opacity @loaderColor: blue; @loaderOpacity:40%; .Loader { height: 100vh !important; } [data-mercury-loading] .Loader { background-color: fade(@loaderColor, @loaderOpacity); } [data-mercury-loading='done'] .Loader { // custom styles here when loader is at 100% in the right edge } /* 🎩 Squarespace Brine Animated Transitions */ Explanation – how the laterwolf.com animation code works
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nYZIYU6ChQ
    The website laterwolf.com uses Squarespace 7.0 Brine family, which has something called "ajax-loading" feature. With the ajax loading enabled the template will have a small 5px white high loading bar on top. It goes from left to right once the page load.  We can turn the small 5px bar into full-heigh 100% "curtain" that sweeps through the entire page. 
    When the animation is loading, the <body> element will have  [data-mercury-loading] attribute which makes the loading bar go to 60%. Once it's loaded that attribute turns into [data-mercury-loading='done'] and it reached the right edge, or 100%. 
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    MarcWatson reacted to CraigN in How to smoothly animate page load transitions?   
    +1, I've noticed this myself. Especially when any custom code has been added to arrange things, there's a noticeable jump as everything loads into place.
    Would be great to make these page transitions smoother, even if it meant adding, 0.2/0.5s delay.
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    MarcWatson reacted to adamspicar in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    Squarespace, your Fluid Engine is a disaster. Turn it off!
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    MarcWatson reacted to FabiSantiago in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    What about non-circle members?
    I'm scared of accidentally clicking on that upgrade button. Srsly, I tried FE on a test website and it's a half-baked attempt at a website builder. It looks like Wix, lmao, and it's glitchy as hell.
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    MarcWatson got a reaction from FabiSantiago in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    I've been working and using SQSP as a designer since 2008 when it was version 5. I am in agreement with everyone here that this version is not ready for prime time. I thought I would immediately convert a project I was working on for a new client, into fluid engine page layouts. OMG! This is so not fun to work with and has literally made me noxious trying to figure out how to work with it. It's mind blowing that SQSP released this and even more that there's a whole army of people trying to make it seem like everything is totally cool and awesome! Not cool and definitely lightyears from awesome. 
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    MarcWatson reacted to vjtk in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    100% fully agree with all points. SS is really screwing up. 
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    MarcWatson reacted to TheEcoporium in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    I'm cursing too!! This new site design is not working for me either. I upgraded one section on the home page and now all the spacing is off. Looks terrible on mobile and all I was doing was updating a product picture. I've been trying to align buttons and text to match the rest of the page and look good on other platforms but for hours now it has been fruitless. I want the classic version back as well. It was much easier to use and looked clean and crisp. I have no idea how to fix things and I certainly don't want to continue to use the new version. If anyone has ideas on how to fix or go back to the older version I would love it.
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    MarcWatson got a reaction from ilseS in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    I've been working and using SQSP as a designer since 2008 when it was version 5. I am in agreement with everyone here that this version is not ready for prime time. I thought I would immediately convert a project I was working on for a new client, into fluid engine page layouts. OMG! This is so not fun to work with and has literally made me noxious trying to figure out how to work with it. It's mind blowing that SQSP released this and even more that there's a whole army of people trying to make it seem like everything is totally cool and awesome! Not cool and definitely lightyears from awesome. 
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    MarcWatson got a reaction from creedon in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    I've been working and using SQSP as a designer since 2008 when it was version 5. I am in agreement with everyone here that this version is not ready for prime time. I thought I would immediately convert a project I was working on for a new client, into fluid engine page layouts. OMG! This is so not fun to work with and has literally made me noxious trying to figure out how to work with it. It's mind blowing that SQSP released this and even more that there's a whole army of people trying to make it seem like everything is totally cool and awesome! Not cool and definitely lightyears from awesome. 
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    MarcWatson reacted to brandonhendrickson in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    Site URL: https://www.rochestertag.com/
    So... I hate it — like, hate hate it, like can't use it without screaming curses... and I'm honestly confused as to why this isn't the dominant conversation topic in the SS community.
    Can anyone shed light on this?
    My experience: I've made oodles of sites in SS. I love(d) SS, and have been an enthusiastic evangelist.
    When I started my newest site, I found out that I'm required to use FluidEngine. I wasn't excited about this — it promised a learning curve that I didn't want to take on in a busy month — but, whatever. Gotta roll with the punches.
    My experience of FluidEngine so far has been nothing but woe. I have three questions for anyone who can share their experiences.
    1. What's the benefit supposed to be, again? The primary benefit (to judge by all the videos I've watched on YouTube) is that now we can stack words on top of images. This is a neat feature that I do not need to use. So the primary improvement is, for me, no improvement.
    (Am I wrong about this? Is there another, better feature that FluidEngine is supposed to give us?)
     
    2. Now it's more complicated to make a page, right? Even if I were really good at using Fluid Engine (and... maybe I will be, someday? maybe I'll stick with SS?... maybe?), it seems like it would still be significantly more work to make a simple page.
    I get the drift that the old philosophy of Squarespace ("Build it beautiful") was to limit the number of decisions we could make, to nudge our sites into elegance. (Wanted to complicate it? That's what CSS was for.)
    Now it feels like they've flipped the philosophy — we're forced to make tons of decisions just to put up something simple.
    (Am I wrong about this?)
     
    3. It's hard to get the spacing to work on mobile, right? Like... REALLY hard, right? I loved — loved — how effortlessly my sites used to appear in mobile. There were times I had to wrestle with it, but they were rare, and only when I was trying to do something weird.
    But now — please, please tell me if you have a different experience — the spacing for mobile is really hard to work out! Like, IMPOSSIBLE to work out.
    I didn't trust my judgment of this until I saw this video by Will Myers. His solution (a code injection, some custom CSS, and some juggling) is ingenious — and should not be necessary to ensure a site looks good on a phone.
    (It's telling that, during his explanation, he struggles to make it work. Check out 7:20 — "This is something you need to be careful of, because I don't think Squarespace really likes you doing this, it wants to just force the extra space for some reason, I'm not really too sure why.")
    (God, am I wrong about this? Please tell me I'm wrong about this. Whenever I try to imagine the folks at Squarespace — who have up to now been such fastidious designers — saying, "ah, screw spacing, nobody cares about spacing!" my mind explodes.)
    Is anyone else being driven flipping insane by this?
    And does anyone know if there's a way to opt out of Fluid Design, even if for the near-term future?
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    MarcWatson reacted to AC57 in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    I'm having a terrible time with this Fluid Engine and can't get my old layout back! I used it on one section of my site, which includes the home page and it completely screwed it up. I've tried to redo it several times. Images are overlapping, not fitting properly inside the image blocks without fudging with them, and then they show up tiny on the mobile. I can't believe Squarespace did this and won't let you get rid of it. What are we supposed to do with this mess???
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    MarcWatson reacted to Studioplaceofficial in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    Exactly!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯.  Summed it up perfectly. SS main attractiveness is that it was simple for just about anyone. It was perfect for a lot of people. This new change has caused me not to even want to open square space anymore and ask for a refund. Committed users like me for years, don’t have time to deal w this crazy type of change. We are busy running out business and this wasn’t fair. Help. SOS please. Thank you’ 
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    MarcWatson reacted to lexlaine91 in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    Oh my lanta, I'm close to loosing my mind with Fluid Engine. I can't even get the options to make images and text bigger with the resizing - is there something I'm doing with my Browser?? This is the 5th square space site I've built and I spent more time trying to resize an image today than I did the last site I built...
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    MarcWatson reacted to ilseS in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    @Sydbat it’s unlikely the people who need to will see it here. A formal ticket/complaint needs to be logged …they are taking notice of these.
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    MarcWatson reacted to RBug in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    The new editor is such a headache!!

    ... before my pages automatically looked good when I resized, now, text overlaps where they're not supposed to, the padding between elements is all out of whack. Overall it just ends up looking so much less professional.
    Before I didn't really have to worry too much about editing my pages in the mobile view, now I absolutely have to preview in both desktop and mobile before publishing a page. Something that looks great on desktop will look totally different in the mobile view, and not just a little different. No, it's like elements all slammed together overlapping at the bottom of the page bad.
    Plus - it's super frustrating trying to centre text in an element when it doesn't align with the grid, or when I'm in the middle of editing a section and elements in the section resize or move on me in weird ways. Takes me twice as long building a section out as it used to with the classic editor, and then it still doesn't look good.
    I don't understand what advantages this system has other than creating collage-styled sections?
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    MarcWatson reacted to Sydbat in New Fluid Engine section block update   
    I'm mostly just posting this so SS receives as much feedback as possible about how much this update sucks. I have never worked with something so buggy and temperamental before. Every time I make a change, I come back and it looks different. And trying to get the mobile site to look halfway decent takes way too much effort. 
    I've created some pages using FE that I wouldn't have been able to make using the old editor, but now I'm afraid if I switch back to the classic it'll be even more of a headache. Has anyone done this successfully? 
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    MarcWatson got a reaction from EarvinChong in Infinite Scroll for 7.1 Blog?   
    Hello,
    I am setting up a blog using 7.1 and would like it to show as an infinite scroll. Does anyone know if this is possible?
    Is there a way to override the 20 post limit?  I can code the summary block to exceed 30 posts but I need to use categories and these take the visitor back to the original blog.
    Any help or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks!
    Marcus
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    MarcWatson got a reaction from Chele in Redirect after purchase of a single/specific product?   
    Thanks for everyone's input. We resolved it as best possible. We couldn't figure out a way to do a single product re-direct, therefore used a different concept.
    Thanks again!
     
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    MarcWatson got a reaction from Chele in Redirect after purchase of a single/specific product?   
    Hello,
    I am trying to automatically redirect to a different page after purchasing a specific product. All of the code I can find redirects to a different page for all products in a shop. We're trying to figure out if this can be applied to a single product only?
    Thank you!
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    MarcWatson got a reaction from ladyllamaprojects in Redirect after purchase of a single/specific product?   
    Hello,
    I am trying to automatically redirect to a different page after purchasing a specific product. All of the code I can find redirects to a different page for all products in a shop. We're trying to figure out if this can be applied to a single product only?
    Thank you!
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