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Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7 - Second Edition

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Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Squarespace is a web-based tool that allows non-technical people to create and manage professional-looking websites quickly, without needing to write any code. It empowers business owners to take total control of their own websites, without needing to pay someone to design or maintain it. This book covers much more than just how to use Squarespace. It covers all aspects of creating a successful business website, from developing your brand identity, to writing and structuring content to match your target audience's needs, and dozens of other other valuable tips that will help your website shine. Most importantly, you'll learn the correct steps to follow in order to ensure your project is smooth and stress-free. The book starts by helping you plan your website project and gather all the raw materials you'll need. Next, you'll set up your account and become familiar with the terminology and tools that you'll be using. Once you've learned the basics of how the Squarespace interface, templates, and different page types operate, you will create the framework of your website, ready for you to insert content and functionality. Then, once all the core elements are in place, you'll apply the aesthetic fine-tuning needed to bring your website in line with your brand. After the aesthetics have been honed and all functions tested, you will launch your website and drive traffic to it, monitor it, and improve it.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
13
Squarespace Templates in a Nutshell
14
List of Online Resources Used in This Book

Chapter 4. Creating Your Site Framework - Pages, Items, Collections, and Navigation

When you set your site template in the previous chapter, the Squarespace system automatically created demo pages that looked like the ones you saw on the demo site. You can choose to keep these pages to use as a starting point, or you can create new pages to use as a clean slate to build your site, or a bit of both. Whatever you decide, you'll need to learn about the different Squarespace page types and how to use them in order to create the right pages to house your content and functions.

In this chapter, we will create samples of all of the main page types to learn about their distinct characteristics, and we'll organize them in different ways to learn how to adjust your site's navigation. We will start by learning about some core Squarespace page concepts, and then we'll use a series of practical exercises to demonstrate how to set up different pages and items on your site.

We will cover the following topics...