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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

Connecting to social media accounts


Connecting your social media accounts to Squarespace can not only enable your site to display social icons that link to your profile on those sites, but in some cases it can allow you to promote your Squarespace website content on those sites, too. When you go live with your new website, it's likely that you will want to announce this in all of your media profiles, such as Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Moving forward, you will probably want to do this whenever you publish a new post or news item in your Squarespace blog. Luckily, Squarespace can automatically publish to certain social media accounts for you, so you don't have to do it manually. What's more, if you have a brand/business or fan page on Facebook, you can even display some of your Squarespace website's pages or galleries as tabs in your Facebook page.

Earlier in Chapter 6, Using Blocks to Add Functionality, Rich Media, and Special Features, we looked at ways to automatically pull in content...