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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

Enabling social sharing on your website


Word of mouth is a good way to new potential customers, so if you'd like to allow your website visitors to easily promote your website to their friends, you should turn on the Squarespace Share Buttons. The Share Buttons appear on items within container pages such as blog posts or events. The appearance of the Share Buttons varies; in some templates, there is a single Share button that expands to reveal the social network icons, whereas other templates show all icons in a row, as indicated in the following screenshot:

You can enable social network Share Buttons in the Share Buttons panel of Settings | Marketing. Simply check/uncheck the box next to each social network name to turn on/off the button for that website. Note that the only icons/social networks that can be used in this way are the ones shown; you can’t add other functions such as share by email.

Note

Social sharing is great for search engine optimization, so you should definitely make it...