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Site URL: https://fashionfilms.co.uk I have built a portfolio page as the home page for my new website https://fashionfilms.co.uk Each of the blocks is coded to give the interact I was after. The videos are iframes from Vimeo at 240p, the smallest I think I could use. I am happy with how it looks and love the quality of the videos vs gifs. BUT I am a bit concerned that the video heavy page is too slow to load and that it will be held against me in the SEO arms race. Attached is a screen grab from Pingdom. The page is 15mb and it takes 5.6 seconds to load. I understand the conventional wisdom is that I need to get this down to under 3 seconds. Which I guess could come from halving the page size. So my questions are Does it really matter? Does Google really penalise slower sites? I can imagine that my target audience- professionals, working in marketing on desktops, might be more patient than a doom scrolling consumer. So I am not overly worried about user experience but more about whether the site won't rank as well (other things being equal) as competitors. Is Vimeo the best video delivery platform for what I am doing? I can imagine that host the films on Squarespace maybe faster/ allow me to use smaller versions- but I am not sure I can code iframes for videos on Squarespace. Is there another way of making the videos smaller? How can I reduce the DNS lookups? Not even sure what that is. Would I be better off having a smaller landing page with a strong link to the portfolio? Any other thoughts on what I can do would be very welcome. Thanks S

Site URL: https://www.mvhjewellery.com/ Hello, my site looks very different between mobile and desktop viewing. The colours are darker and more saturated on mobile, the background and the photos I've uploaded to my site. Is there a way to edit these separately or somehow fix this?! Its super frustrating because one view will inevitably turn out good and one will look totally wrong. Its hard to get a good photo of it- screenshots from my phone end up visually matching the desktop when uploaded and vice versa. Had to take a picture of a phone next to my laptop!

Site URL: https://www.campilliana.org/ Good morning. We logged into our sqarespace this morning and many of the images we have in our website are not showing up. when we go to edit the page, they still show they are linked, but looking at the page (from two different laptops and two different phones) all the images appear to be grey. This seems to have happened overnight, as we were working on the page yesterday. I attached an image of what one of the pages should look like (Our Global Partners), an image of what the site currently looks like, an image of the coding, and a screenshot from squarespace help center live chat. Neither I nor my coworker know coding so we need a lot of help... We did attempt to change the coding for the header navigation bar, we thought we just changed the color of the lines under the menu items but the Help Center worker said that our changing the coding is what caused our images to disappear. is there a simple solution that we could implement?

Hi, I'm new to building with squarespace, I looked around for populating a gallery block with photos from google drive, which from the articles I read seemed like it was not possible a year ago, but I was wondering if there is any cloud storage platform that can be used as a source for images in a gallery block? Basically I want to pick 10 random photos from online storage, but then as I add or change the photos in the storage I don't have to go back and update the gallery block. Hope what I am trying to achieve makes sense. Thanks

Site URL: https://www.nickwaldinger.com/branding Hello, I have several videos being used on my website (linked from Vimeo), but they don't line up flush with pictures above and below them (see screenshot attached). I would like to adjust the padding on all sides of the video to match the pictures above and below it. Here is a link to the page I am referring to specifically: https://www.nickwaldinger.com/branding Thank you!

Site URL: https://thedaintyloft.com/what-is-new I've had my site published for less than a month. I went and added a new page and inside the page a few new blocks. Some with text and some with images. The images wont show up. I've gone in a number of times and they show up for me in the editing site but not in the publish site. Can anyone help? This keeps happening where I edit something and it just doesnt change. I am using 7.1

Site URL: https://jordanhathawayphoto.com/adventures/london is it possible to have a photo gallery be only one row like Instagram for example? Is there CSS code for that? I didn't see any of options on the provided templates.

Site URL: http://www.thomcorbishley.com Hello, Throughout my photography website, I'd like every gallery to be displayed without any navigation buttons on the side of the gallery and the ability to navigate through the gallery, simply by clicking on the image currently being displayed. Ideally, with the ability to navigate backwards and forwards depending on where on the image one clicks. Furthermore, I'd like to this to be accompanied with the ability to navigate using the arrow keys of a keyboard. I used this style entirely on Squarespace before I upgraded to 7.1 a couple of years ago and is fairly common a lot of websites. Is there any way of achieving this effect? Thanks in advance, Thom

Site URL: https://www.jakeandkylee.com/ Hello! I was just wondering how I could swap out the banner image on mobile? I specifically want to change the top image on this page: https://www.jakeandkylee.com/contact It just crops it weird on mobile, I will attach the photo I would like it to change to, hopefully changing the size of the banner image would be great as well.

Site URL: https://garrett-baker.com/ In the editing page, my photo is completely different in its alignment than on the actual live website page. It's quite dramatically different as well and I can't figure out why. See attached photo of how it looks in the editor vs. the live site.

Site URL: http://www.thomcorbishley.com Hello, Throughout my photography website, I'd like every gallery to be displayed without any navigation buttons on the side of the gallery and the ability to navigate through the gallery, simply by clicking on the image currently being displayed. Ideally, with the ability to navigate backwards and forwards depending on where on the image one clicks. Furthermore, I'd like to this to be accompanied with the ability to navigate using the arrow keys of a keyboard. I used this style entirely on Squarespace before I upgraded to 7.1 a couple of years ago and is fairly common a lot of websites. Is there any way of achieving this effect? Thanks in advance, Thom

Site URL: http://www.edaraapparel.com Hello! I have 9 photos uploaded for this product and for some reason 13 are showing up on the page - 4 of them are blank. Anyone have any ideas or code on how to get rid of the extra photo spots? I appreciate your help! Sincerely, Sarah

Site URL: https://www.macdonaldphoto.com/ I am working on a website and for some reason, we keep having problems with our image being pixelated even at a higher dimension. I have attached photos of the images so you can see the difference in the pixels and also attached the settings they are being exported with. The pixelation is not there at 1500px on the long side, but reappears when resized to 2000px or 2500px. We would leave them at 1500px, but the images are not as crisp. Any ideas on what is causing this? Not sure if you can see it on the pictures of the blue house (it's in the sky), but I have attached screen shots of other images with this strange pixelation pattern. Which can be seen in the ceiling of the other rooms I posted.

Currently building out our new site and would like to add some 360˚ spins. We've got full sets of jepgs, just need either the code or a widget to enable them. Any suggestions that work well with Squarespace? They're not videos.

Hi! Up until today, I have never had an issue with text wrapping around images in Squarespace. Is this due to a new update? For blog posts, I like to drag and drop images to the right hand side of the screen, with the text wrapping around it. I'm now unable to do that. Is anyone else having this issue? Or does anyone know how to fix it? Thanks for your help!

Site URL: https://www.yangthreads.com/shop/headbands Please can someone help. I had a designer complete my initial site but I have tried to add a new product range of some headbands. The Stock / Product photos load really large and I can't work out how to get the entire photo in the thumbnail. As they're already enlarged when you hoover the mouse it just blows the image up even larger. You never get to see the product I have read the Formatting your images for display on the web as well as other guides but they don't help and I've also used the live chat who although try their best direct me to the guides. My photos fit the image requirements and I've messed around with the aspect ratios but I really can't seem to get it to work properly. I've been work on it for days and I'm going a little mad Can someone please help My website is www.Yangthreads.com and its the headbands that I've struggling with Thank you

Site URL: https://www.ffabooks.com/ I am looking to create a custom gallery as i don’t like the layouts of stock ones. I have created a page using image blocks to create my desired layout, however you can't click through to each image automatically (like reading a book) without going back. Is there a way to make this into a gallery so that it is easy to click and scroll between images? We want a layout that has even spacing. This is what we have right now, and it's perfect, but it's not a gallery layout, we would love some custom css that allows the grid to be active and clickable once on an image.

Hello, I am trying to bulk edit the filenames of images that are uploaded to my site. I have looked through a lot of the how-to pages in Squarespace's documentation, but I haven't found a way to access all my images (without creating a new page). I find it hard to believe that there is no way in Squarespace to access my image library to bulk delete old photos or easily edit image filenames, maybe I am just looking in the wrong place? What am I missing?

Site URL: https://www.stan-x.org/publications Hello. How do i add a one pixel border around photos on just one page? Thanks in advance.

Site URL: https://www.thelittlespeedshop.com/stock-070322c Hey Guys, I am having a problem reordering pictures once I upload them to a gallery. I can drag and drop them in the correct order, but it always reverts back to the way they were uploaded on the page. I typically upload on my phone and try to change the order on the phone and that usually doesn't work and then I try again on the computer and it allows me to drag and drop in the correct order but then when i save it it reverts back to the original order. The only thing that has worked is reuploading the picture I want to display first, which is an annoying process and I don't want to have to individually upload pictures each time. Please help!

I need to show a lot of before and afters on my 7.0 website. I can do this easily with slideshow. However, its making some of my pages load very slow on mobile devices, even after optimizing images. So is there a way I can use Pinterest or similar to store my photos, but use a code to somehow create a slideshow of before after images? I want the images to have a 2 second auto transition between slides, or arrows at the side to click through. Ideally I don't want to use I-Frame as I find it doesnt always look right on various mobile devices.

I would like my galleries to organize the newest photos on top. Currently I have to manually drag all of my photos to be in the order of newest to oldest. Is there a selection that can help me with this?

Site URL: https://frankiestone.com.au/sonic-spaceship-2200copy Hey! Im wanting to add a gif at the start of the paragraph after the bold writing Body - The Diaphragm. Is there any way to add an image into the text box? Could i do it with an individual image box? I'm all ears for troubleshooting and learning! thanks! 😄

Hi- Im having trouble switching out the main photo on the SONORA primary navigation photo.

Site URL: https://louisechantal.squarespace.com/photos Hello! The image titles on my photo gallery are getting cut off. For example, the g's in "Vogue Challenge" (column 1, row 2) at https://louisechantal.squarespace.com/photos I tried making the text slightly smaller, but it didn't take care of the issue. Please let me know if I need to share my existing CSS code because we had to make some adjustment to the image titles for mobile view. Thanks in advance! I appreciate it.