two brands, one website subscription

A quick post to show how I tweaked my Squarespace website using CSS code and code injection. I had never done this before and it was so easy thanks to all the clever people posting code on the Squarespace forum and especially to one bright spark called Tuan who not only shares info on his website, he will go into your website and share code to help you specifically.

So to start off I realised there are two types of Squarespace website, 7.0 and 7.1. The ones with family names such as ‘Brine’ are 7.0. Brine is what I started on and although they are fantastic they are probably better suited to people capable of editing using code. They seem to have more editing possibilities so perfect if you have a more complex website. I soon realised I needed their latest version 7.1, which has less editing capabilities but there’s plenty of tweaks you can still do to get the result you want. I found it was easier for editing the mobile site too. I had to rebuild the website from scratch because you can’t just swap over so choose the right one for you first!

I wanted two brands in one website subscription. Tuan shows how you can do this here: https://beaverhero.com/2sites-same-subscription/ I have decided to keep the same home page for both brands but you can circle them individually, so for example when you press on the logo for pottery painting it could easily link to the pottery painting landing page and keep you in that section.

I wanted to upload two separate logos. I found a great video by Carl Johnson showing me how to do this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRR0I3eOeqg .

I found that on my shopping cart (which has less editing ability) there were too many navigation tags on my header so I used this code in the CSS section to delete the navigation bar all together:

/* Hide cart page navigation */

body#cart .header-nav {

visibility: hidden;

}

body#cart .burger-box {

visibility: hidden;

}

If you are struggling I highly recommend contacting Tuan, he kindly shared some code with me. He didn’t charge, he just had some links to donate which of course I did. It just takes the fear out of messing about with code, which as a newbie can be daunting.

So there you go. No expensive web designers. An online store for two brands and it was actually really fun to do very basic code.