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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

Promoting products and offering discounts


We've now covered the basics of your store ready for selling, but there are several other tools in your Squarespace Commerce toolkit that can help you improve on your website.

Using Product Blocks to enable quick purchases from anywhere on your site

You can use a Product Block to insert summary information about a single product on any page, blog post, event, sidebar, or anywhere you can insert a block. This is a way to cross-promote products that relate to the topic of the page or give products an extra boost by highlighting them in prominent places. The best part is that you can also include the Add to Cart button, which means that customers can purchase with a single click without ever needing to navigate to your products page(s). Here's an example of a Product Block on a standard page:

To add a Product Block, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the page where you want to insert the block, open the Content Editor, and click on the Insert Point.
  2. Under the...