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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

Creating new pages


Our next task will be to create a couple more new that you can use on your site. Refer back to your Website Toolkit and choose real pages that you will want to have on your website.

Using Starter Layouts and blank standard pages

We'll start by creating a standard page. When creating a standard page, you have two options: you can create a blank page, or you can use a Starter Layout. Starter Layouts include placeholder content blocks that you can replace/fill with your own content. There different Starter Layouts for different purposes, such as a Contact page with a form, or a Team page that has a layout of images.

Follow these steps to create a new standard page:

  1. In the Pages panel, click on the + button at the bottom of your Main Navigation or Top Navigation section. This will open the Create New Page overlay, as shown here:
  1. Select Page. This will open the layout chooser window, as shown here:
  2. Enter your Page Title.
  3. You'll notice that the Blank layout is loaded by default...