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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

Setting up and managing donations


You can use Squarespace Commerce to accept on website if you are a non-profit organization or if you would like to accept monetary gifts or tips online.

Note

Be extra careful if you will be taking donations as tips or gifts, because the law is very specific about how these terms are defined where tax is concerned.

Adding a Donation Block

You can add a Donate button to your using a Donation Block. Donation Blocks can be added, moved, and resized in the same way as other content blocks and can be inserted a content block can go.

Donate buttons look like other buttons on your website, but when visitors click the button, they are taken to a Squarespace Commerce page to supply information about the donation and enter payment, as shown in the following example:

To add a Donation Block, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the page you want, open the Content Editor, and click on the Insert Point where you'd like to place the block.
  2. Scroll down to the Commerce category...