Preparing to Build Your Site – Making an Outline and Gathering Your Assets
Now that you’ve learned why Squarespace exists and what it can do, it’s time to brainstorm what your site will contain, then gather the assets you’ll need to begin building your Squarespace site.
This chapter dives into the mise en place of building a website: preparing and assembling the ingredients that you’ll need before you can start cooking up your new digital home.
Could you skip all of this? Sure. If you’re interested in focusing on the technical aspects of using Squarespace, this is one chapter that will perhaps be less crucial for you. That said, unless you aspire to build a site using lorem ipsum for placeholder copy and Squarespace’s pre-loaded stock images, you’ll want to have a content outline, images and/or video, a logo, a color palette, and graphic elements such as icons and illustrations.
Here is what you will learn as part of...