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Squarespace & Mapbox


During one of my following meetings with Bate Brand, I was asked by Elliott if I had worked with Mapbox – a mapping platform that supports customization and has a mobile friendly interface. I had a go with Mapbox Studio and attempted customizing the colours of elements of the map such as main roads, water,street name formatting, etc. Elliott then offered me that if I felt comfortable with the platform I could come up with a customized map that shows the location of Signature Printing’s office and makes it more appealing than using a simple Google maps plugin
At home I had more chance to explore the capabilities of the software. I tried some of the pre-made styles for the map and came up with some ideas on how to slightly amend them. I used different shades for the water colour and main road colour. 

Where static units were used in the code for any element’s width I changed them to relative which ensures that the content is responsive and displayed appropriately on a broad range on devices)
It took me some time to get how to save a style and export it in a Squarespace-accessible format. I found a solution which basically required putting a code block in Squarespace and embed the map with an iframe tag. 



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