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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

Adding pages to your site


The best way to understand the pages work is to add some. When you start a new site with Squarespace, there are two ways to add pages to your site: you can start from the demo pages that come with your template, or you can add fresh new pages. We'll learn how to do both in this section. We'll also cover the different page types and settings that apply to the pages that you create.

Note

If you have an existing site on Squarespace 5, WordPress, Blogger, or Tumblr, you can import those pages into Squarespace 7. Refer to http://bit.ly/sqsp-import if you need to import from another site.

Everything to do with adding, removing, setting up, or reorganizing pages is done by navigating to Pages in the Site Manager, so ensure you are in that area before proceeding with the rest of this chapter.

Using the Pages panel

Before we start adding pages, let's take a to learn about the different parts of the Pages panel and what the different icons mean. When you entered the Pages panel...