
Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7

With Video Blocks, Squarespace allows to easily embed videos that are hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, or Animoto. You don't even need to use special embed code from the video website; all you need is the web address of the video. However, on many video sites, you can customize the colors of the player to make it match your website more closely when using their embed code. This can add polish to your website. To get the embed code and access the customization tools, look for a Share
or Embed
button on the video page on the external video website.
You can't host videos on Squarespace, but it's free or very inexpensive to host videos on large video hosting websites. Businesses are advised to avoid YouTube and choose Vimeo or Wistia instead if they prefer not to have obtrusive advertisements in their videos. One of my clients found a competitor's advertisements showing on their YouTube videos, so beware.
To add a Video Block, follow these steps:
Change the font size
Change margin width
Change background colour