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One of the awesome things about Squarespace as a website platform for entrepreneurs and small business owners is how easy peasy it is to build a website with your own two hands—no web design experience required!

Buuut, of course, there are many more possibilities available for fancy web design if you know a bit of coding you can call upon when needed.

While custom coding is not as easy to learn as Squarespace itself, here's a little secret:

You can copy/paste code from someone who knows what they're doing and apply it to your own website (yay!)—and there are a ton of awesome resources sharing Squarespace custom code all over the internet (extra yay!).

So, to give a sampling of the helpful custom code resources available, here are 50 of my favorite customization tutorials from Squarespace web designers around the world.

Note: Most of these tutorials involve adding custom CSS to the back-end of your website. You'll do this under Design > Custom CSS . If you're not familiar with CSS, here's an explanation of what CSS is and how it's used in Squarespace web design (it's a good idea to familiarize yourself with that first!).

My favorite Squarespace customization tutorials

Once you feel comfortable using your Squarespace CSS Editor, let's get into the customization tutorials!

Custom image effects

Add a drop shadow to images

Here's how to add a drop shadow to your images, as well as how to change the color of the drop shadow and add a hover effect to it. // Inside the Square

Add hover animation to a graphic

Create movement on your webpage by adding a hover animation that gives special effects to a graphic on hover. // Beatriz Caraballo

Grayscale to color image hover effect

This fancy hover effect turns a greyscale image to color upon hover. // Thirty Eight Visuals

Create hover effects on images

Here's how to create custom hover effects on images throughout your Squarespace website. // The Qurious Effect

Crop images into a circle

Squarespace offers some great editing capability in their built-in image editor, but there's one thing it can't do: crop images into a circle. However, with a little custom CSS, you can crop any image block on your website into a circle yourself. // Five Design Co.

Learn how to crop images into circles on Squarespace // 50 CSS tutorials for customizing your Squarespace website // Five Design Co.

Add custom fonts to your Squarespace website // 50 CSS tutorials for customizing your Squarespace website // Five Design Co.

Add custom bullet points

Ever have a use for a bulleted list with cute little checkmark bullet points and wonder "Gee, how do I do that?" Here's how to add custom bullet points to your Squarespace website. // Five Design Co.

Add a low-highlight to text

The low highlight is increasingly popular in web design, often used as customized link styling (like you see here!). Here's how to create the low highlight over text on your Squarespace website. // Thirty Eight Visuals

Create vertical text

Here's how to use CSS to create trendy vertical text on your Squarespace website. (See an example in the related posts reel at the bottom of this post!) // Inside the Square

Customize footer font styles

Squarespace footer font styles are, by default, inherited from the rest of your website. If you'd like to apply custom font styling to your footer font (for example, decrease the font size or adjust styling of text links), here's some CSS to customize the styling of your footer font. // Five Design Co.

Custom button effects

Create a button hover effect

Though you can adjust the style, color and font of buttons in the Squarespace style editor, you can also get fancy and create a button hover effect. // Kate Scott

Add a drop shadow to buttons

Learn how to add a drop shadow to buttons in Squarespace. // Jacob Ruiz

Style the newsletter block button

Most button styling can be done directly from the Squarespace style editor, but the newsletter block button unfortunately can't be adjusted here. Though it does inherit general site styles, if you wish to style the newsletter block button specifically, here's some simple CSS to do the trick. // Five Design Co.

Turn your last navigation link into a button

Some Squarespace templates (such as the Bedford family) have built-in functionality that turns the last navigation menu item into a button. If you're using a different template but would still like this feature, simply follow this tutorial to manually create a navigation button. // Thirty Eight Visuals

Custom button styling on your Squarespace website // 50 CSS tutorials for customizing Squarespace // Five Design Co.

Custom style Squarespace quote blocks // 50 CSS tutorials for customizing Squarespace // Five Design Co.

Customize the Squarespace announcement bar

Here are two fun ways to customize the Squarespace announcement bar. // My Billie Designs

Customize the Squarespace cookie banner

If you use the Squarespace cookie banner, here are some simple tips to customize its appearance. // Five Design Co.

Custom style your Squarespace search bar

This video tutorial and cheat sheet give some fun tips for custom styling your Squarespace search block. // Inside the Square

Mobile adjustments

Create a mobile-friendly carousel slider

The Squarespace carousel summary block layout is known to be not-so-mobile friendly. Here's a tutorial for a custom carousel layout that displays better on mobile devices. // Schwartz-Edmisten Web Design

Adjust mobile font size

Though you can easily adjust font size in your Squarespace Site Styles, there's unfortunately no way to specifically adjust the mobile font size via your built-in style editor. But fear not, here's a simple tutorial for adjusting mobile font size with a little custom CSS. // Inside the Square

Change mobile logo

Sometimes the logo that works so well for your site on desktop is not very compatible with mobile screen sizes. If that's the case for you, here's how to change your mobile logo (for the Brine template family on Squarespace). // Big Cat Creative

Other fancy things

Create a dropdown accordion-style FAQ

This tutorial gives step-by-step instructions to create a fancy collapsible accordion-style FAQ on your Squarespace website. // Kayleigh Noele

Make vertical lines

It's super easy to add horizontal lines to your Squarespace website (hi, line block!), but there's no native option for vertical lines. Here's a tutorial for adding vertical lines to your Squarespace site. // Minimist

Add custom Pin-It buttons

Here's how to add custom "Pin-It" buttons to your Squarespace website. // LJ Media House

Make your Instagram block full-width

Squarespace's Instagram block is a simple way to add your most recent photos from your Instagram feed to your Squarespace website. The block inherits the standard margins from the rest of your website, but here's a simple tutorial to make the Instagram block full-width. // Christy Price

Set up a custom 404 redirect page

When a visitor encounters a broken link on your site (happens to the best of us!), they'll encounter your 404 redirect page. Here's how to set up a custom 404 page in Squarespace. // Revamp Design Studio

Use anchor links on your Squarespace website

Anchor links are helpful on long, content-heavy pages, as they help the reader jump to the desired section of that page (so they're commonly used to set up a table of contents). Here's a quick lesson in how to use anchor links on your Squarespace website. // Five Design Co.

Format a recipe for Google

This custom code is helpful for food bloggers to format recipes for Google. // Square Design Guild

Add a countdown timer plugin

Running a short-term promotion? Here's how to encourage sales by adding a countdown timer to your Squarespace website. // SQSP Themes