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Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7: RAW

You're reading from   Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7: RAW Master the tools and techniques of using Squarespace to create professional websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783559961
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up for Success – Your Website Toolkit FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Squarespace 3. Working with Squarespace Templates 4. Creating Your Site Framework: Pages, Items, Collections, and Navigation 5. Adding, Editing, and Arranging Content in Your Web Pages 6. Using Blocks to Add Functionality, Rich Media, and Special Features 7. Selling Online or Taking Donations with Squarespace Commerce 8. Tailoring Your Site's Look and Feel 9. Going Live with Your Website and Driving Traffic to It 10. Managing Your Squarespace Website 11. Moving beyond Standard Squarespace Tools A. Getting Help with Squarespace B. Squarespace Templates in a Nutshell
C. List of Online Resources Used in This Book
Index

Enabling social sharing on your website


Word of mouth is a good way to attract 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 Button appears at the bottom of each blog post, as indicated in the following screenshot:

Clicking on the condensed button or link will open an overlay with links to popular social networks, as shown in the following screenshot:

If you'd like to encourage Pinterest users to pin images from your site, you can also enable a Pinterest Pin-It Button that will appear as a small icon whenever someone hovers over an image on your blog or web pages.

Tip

Social sharing is great for search engine optimization, so you should definitely make it as easy as possible for people to link to your website through their social accounts. The more links you have pointing to your site, the better.

You can enable the social network Share Buttons and/or the Pinterest...

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