Squarespace Essential Training

Introduction

• Building beautiful, customizable websites without code

1. Squarespace Overview

• Comparing basic vs. premium options in Squarespace
• Using Squarespace Help

2. Creating Your First Website in Squarespace

• Defining a small business informational site project
• Creating an account and choosing a theme
• Entering basic settings
• Choosing and changing website fonts
• Choosing and changing website colors
• Edit the site header, logo, and navigation
• Designing the homepage banner
• Working with text and photos in the About section
• Creating a large image carousel
• Modifying the footer text
• Adding the browser icon and social sharing image
• Working with blank starter pages and adding blank sections
• Creating links in content to other pages and offsite
• Creating a contact page and configuring a contact form
• Adding a button block
• Working with the Portfolio feature
• Challenge: Finishing the portfolio
• Solution

3. Launching Your First Site

• Add a domain from Squarespace and transfer a domain you own
• Sharing a site in trial mode
• Examining analytics

4. Exploring New Site Styles in Squarespace

• Choosing colors for your site and creating color themes
• Choosing a font stack and assigning fonts to styles
• Adding sections and features to web pages
• Applying site styles to web page sections

Conclusion

• Goodbye