2 Awesome New Squarespace Features (Version 7.0)

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Squarespace just added two brand new features... and they're awesome. Watch the video below to check out the new Squarespace animations and Unsplash integration.

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2 Awesome New Squarespace Features (Version 7.0)

Welcome back to my channel. In today’s video, I want to share with you 2 new Squarespace features that I think you are really going to like.

If you’re new to my channel, welcome, I’m Louise of Louisehenry.com (formerly Solopreneursidekick.com). I put out new videos every single week to help you build your online business, so if that is something that you’re doing, make sure that you hit Subscribe down below and that you hit that little Bell icon, so that you get notified every time I post something new.

Here are the 2 new Squarespace features.

Unsplash Integration

The first feature is the new Unsplash Integration. Unsplash is this phenomenal website where you can find high-quality stock photos that you can use on your website for free. Before, you would need to come to the website, download it, resize it, and then upload to Squarespace. Now this is actually built in.

So now, when you go within Squarespace, you’re just going to insert an Image Block, then you just need to click Search For Image. You’ll see this Free tab here, and then, basically, what they’ve done is they’ve added all of the Unsplash photos into Squarespace itself. This is fantastic and completely eliminates that extra step.

For example, if I wanted a laptop photo, I would just type in Laptop right here, and it’s going to bring up all of the photos in the Unsplash directory. Once I find a photo that I like, I’m just going to click Select, and then Add To Site – this is automatically going to resize for web and add this photo to my website. Click Apply – and, as you can see, amazing. We’ve got this super, high-quality photo now added to our website. That is the first new Squarespace feature – the new Unsplash Integration.

Animations

The second Squarespace feature also has to do with images, and that is Animations. This is just currently in Beta, which means they are testing it out, but I’m sure that everyone is going to love it and that it will be available soon.

Let me just show you what this is. When you go into any of your image files – I have graphics here, but these are just image files – you can now click Edit on any Image Block, and then you’ll see this tab for Animations. If I click on that, you’ll see that there is this dropdown with quite a few different animation options.

For example, if I click Fade In, that’s going to fade in the image. There’s Focus In, Slide Up – these are just those really nice subtle animations that you will often see on really professional websites. I’m super pumped about this one.

Let me show you an example. I’m just going to click Slide Up for that, and click Apply, then Save, and now I’m going to go to my website. Let’s see that animation in action. Just a super-subtle cool add-on to your site – once again Squarespace making things super easy for us.

If you don’t have access to this feature yet, don’t worry, I’m sure that it will come soon because I can imagine people are going to love this one.

That’s it for this video. I hope you are just as excited as I am about these 2 new Squarespace features. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below, and, if you liked this video, make sure to give it a thumbs up and hit Subscribe.

One more thing – if you are building your website with Squarespace, I have a free Guide for you - which you can get by clicking the link in the description below – all about how to build your website fast.

That is it for this video. I hope that you enjoyed it, and I’ll see you soon with another video.

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Let me know in the comments what you think of these new features!

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