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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
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Squarespace Templates in a Nutshell
14
List of Online Resources Used in This Book

Using floating bars on your website


Floating bars are small of information that you can set to float on top of your Squarespace website. There are currently three kinds of floating bars available within Squarespace. They are as follows:

  • Squarespace Badge: This displays a Squarespace logo on your site
  • Announcement Bar: This displays custom text in a slim strip at the top
  • Mobile Information Bar: This displays key contact information in a fat strip at the bottom, only on mobile devices

Unless you are a Squarespace superfan, it's unlikely that you'll want to use the Squarespace Badge—and even if you do, the configuration is self-explanatory. Therefore, we'll focus on the last two types of floating bar in this chapter. Each type of floating bar has its own configuration panel, accessed from the Design menu.

Using an Announcement Bar to highlight important information

If you are using Squarespace Commerce, you may recall we introduced the Announcement Bar as a method for highlighting discount back...