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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 5. Adding, Editing, and Arranging Content in Your Web Pages

In the previous chapter, we created empty or sample pages and items to prepare your site framework for the main event: filling the site with real content and functions and arranging them on the page to create your desired page layouts. This chapter will show you how to add, remove, and edit content on your site and give you all of the core skills you will need to manage your page layouts. You will also gain a better understanding of the page and item properties that we introduced in the previous chapter by adding and arranging the real content that you gathered in your Website Toolkit to result in finished web pages.

In this chapter, you will learn how to use three of the most and creative tools that Squarespace offers: Squarespace Blocks, which allow you to insert a range of content and functions; the Squarespace LayoutEngine, which controls layouts; and the Adobe Creative Cloud Image Editor, which allows to manipulate...