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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

Chapter 6. Using Blocks to Add Functionality, Rich Media, and Special Features

In the previous chapter, you learned about Squarespace Blocks and inserted some basic blocks into your web pages. In this chapter, you will learn how to use more advanced blocks to add interactivity to your website, pull in content dynamically from other places, and add helpful tools to your pages, making your website really come alive. We'll cover these in order, starting with the ones most commonly used on business websites.

Although the things that these blocks do are more advanced than basic blocks, using them is just as easy as using basic blocks, and you can adjust their size and move them around in exactly the same way. All blocks in this chapter are added the same way as the blocks in the previous chapter by clicking on the Insert Point icon when in the Content Editor.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Inserting multimedia elements, such as audio, video, and photo slideshows
  • Capturing customer...
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