Hey friend,
Do you get frustrated with recipe websites as much as I do? You google a recipe you’re looking for and click on one with a delicious looking image only to get blasted with irrelevant commentary on the dish, ads, and confusing UI.
To be fair, recipe websites do this because The Algorithm craves it. These websites wouldn’t be getting the traffic, and thus the ad revenue, if you didn’t click on it. And why did you click on it? Because Google showed it near the top — not because it’s the best, but because it had a lot of content, and Google and other search engines crave content (they’re so needy)… even though sometimes, an unnecessary amount of content provides a bad user experience for, ya know, us silly humans.
To be even more fair, I also do this. My tutorial pages & my Code Curious membership series’ are focused on helping people learn (with a tinge of SEO bloat), but that’s not what everyone wants or needs. Oftentimes, you don’t want all my explanation about why or how this code works, you just want a quick and simple way to grab some code to get the design you want.
I want to introduce to you the newest addition to the Code Curious membership, The Code Catalogue.
(if you’re curious about my Code Curious membership, learn more here)
The Code Catalogue is meant to help you build beautiful websites, fast. But it’s also meant to inspire you, to show you things that you could build with Squarespace. The code snippets in the Code Catalogue are just for members, but anyone can go and check out the page right now to see what’s available. Whereas previously you had to sort through my tutorial videos and blogs to find these little bits of code (and fear not, this will still be an option for non Code Curious members), now I’m streamlining and organizing them all in one place.
To clarify, the Code Catalogue will house all of our code ‘snippets’ — the little bits of code that can quickly and easily be used in a website to get some basic design and functionality customization — and not our Plugins. Plugins are chunkier, bigger pieces of code that offer more advanced design, functionality, and customization, and they’ll continue to be available for anyone to buy one-off.
My hope is that the Code Catalogue will make your designs a little better, your process a little faster, and your lives a little easier.
I’m also focused on making the Code Curious membership something that’s sustainable and long-lasting for you, and that means increasing the price to from $12 / mo to $15 / mo. This increase will take effect on May 1st. All current members, as well as anyone who signs up before May 1, are locked into the lower price at $12 / mo.
If you’d like to join, you can sign up here.
I’m super grateful for all support and help so far, and I’m excited to continue to build new things for you.
Keep Building, Will
Latest From Will-Myers
Plugin Updates - I recently dedicated a whole day to plugin maintenance, some of the updates included fixing an issue with the Mega Menu where on scroll the Menu detached from the main header, and an issue from prevented the two Video Element styles displaying as the same. I’ve also updated the Vertical Timeline plugin to allow for linking to the blog posts.
Squarespace Shenanigans - Christy Price and I are doing another Live Squarespace Shenanigans episode this Thursday, April 27th at 11am Eastern. We’ll be discussing Email Overload and some strategies to get a better handle on our email.
Register using this link and drop in any questions you have and we’ll answer them live!
Squarespace Shenanigans is a semi-weekly show where we explore the world of Squarespace, entrepreneurship and web design. We discuss topics shaping the world around us and tackle your questions from the mailbag.
Curious Coder Club
We’ve had some pretty exciting tutorials go live in the Curious Coder membership in the last couple of weeks.
Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, this subscription is the perfect way to expand your coding knowledge with our Series’ and to also get tech tidbits straight into your inbox three times a week.
$12 / mo.
Ready to dive in? Just click below and let’s keep building! 🚀
Recently Released Series’
Image Caption Styles In FE
We’re bringing image captions back to Fluid Engine! Choose from one of 3 different image caption styles using the grab-n-go code snippets: Caption Below, Caption Overlay, and Caption Popup.
In these beginner-level javascript tutorials, you’ll learn some javascript basics like grabbing alt text from an image, looping through a group of images, and inserting HTML into your website.
CSS Animations 101
Learn the basics of CSS Animations, when and why to use them, and how to use them in Squarespace. We’ll also go through 6 different animations for buttons, images, and icons you can start using today.
Plugin Updates
Squarespace is constantly changing and updating its platform; you can trust that we’re updating and maintaining our plugins to account for these changes. Unless otherwise notes, plugin updates happen automatically.