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Squarespace from Signup to Launch

By : Kelsey Gilbert Kreiling
Book Image

Squarespace from Signup to Launch

By: Kelsey Gilbert Kreiling

Overview of this book

You've heard about Squarespace; maybe you've even started a trial site, but you haven't gotten around to actually launching it yet. It looks simple enough and feels like it should be easy, so why is it such a challenge? Author and Squarespace expert Kelsey Gilbert-Kreiling is here to help. Squarespace from Signup to Launch a comprehensive guide to customizing the most design-focused and user-friendly website builder in the no-code world. More than a technical manual, the book will help you prepare to build a website, explain the foundational knowledge behind Squarespace 7.1 and Fluid Engine, and introduce you to a professional designer's mindset. Readers will learn how to build forms, use content blocks, optimize websites for mobile, build an online store, and become comfortable with Squarespace's built-in SEO, marketing, and analytics tools. Learn from Squarespace experts Christy Price, Will Myers, David Iskander, Kristine Neil, Kathryn Joachim, Beatriz Caraballo, Justin Mabee, Shelly Price and more, with professional insights and resources in each chapter. By the end of the book, you will have gained the confidence needed to build professional Squarespace websites with the developer's technical knowledge, project organization, and design intuition. You won’t just launch your site; you’ll be proud to share it with the world.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Free Chapter
2
Part 1: So, You Want to Build a Website on Squarespace
5
Part 2: Design and Build Your Site
13
Part 3: Give Your Site Superpowers
18
Part 4: Launch Your New Website

Using Summary Blocks to add blog posts to other areas on your website

A well-built blog can be a powerful tool for content across your whole website, not just your blog page. Using Summary Blocks, you can create a feed of blog posts from your blog (or other collection pages) and use it to add that content to other areas of your website. You can also use a summary block in tandem with categories and tags to narrow down the content that you show on the page.

To add a summary block and display your blog content on another page on your site, navigate to the page where you’d like to see a list or gallery of your posts. Select Add Block and choose the summary block, dragging and dropping it where you’d like it to be. As shown in Figure 11.12, you can configure this block by first selecting a page that you’d like content to be pulled from, then selecting Filter to only show posts from a single category or tag:

Figure 11.12 – Summary Block

Figure 11.12 – Summary...