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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

Displaying a price list


Many service-based businesses want to a list of prices for their services on their website. You could just use standard Text Blocks to do this, but it can be difficult to get the alignment right and make them look good. Fortunately, Squarespace has a special kind of block made just for this type of information. However, you might never know this because the block is called a Menu Block, and most people assume this is just for restaurants, especially because the icon shows a knife and fork. Although the Menu Block may have been originally designed for food and drink businesses, you can actually use it to display prices and information about any type of service.

The cool thing about Menu Blocks is that they allow you to have different tabs for different menus or service types, so you can display a lot of prices neatly in one page, without making visitors scroll forever or jump around to different pages. An example of a Menu Block is shown in the following screenshot...