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Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7: RAW
Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7: RAW

Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7: RAW: Master the tools and techniques of using Squarespace to create professional websites

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Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7: RAW

Chapter 2. Getting Started with Squarespace

Now that you have started preparing your Website Toolkit with all the essential ingredients you'll need for your website, let's get signed up with a Squarespace account so that you can start working on your site. In this chapter, you'll learn your way around Squarespace and be introduced to the main controls that you will use to create your website. We will cover the following topics:

  • Signing up and logging in to Squarespace
  • Finding your way around Squarespace
  • Understanding the main site editing and management tools
  • Adjusting basic account and site settings

Signing up for a Squarespace account

All you need in order to sign up for Squarespace is a valid email address. Squarespace includes a free trial period, so you don't even need a credit card to get started—you can set up payment with your credit card later at the end of your trial period.

To sign up for your Squarespace account, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to www.squarespace.com.
  2. Click on the Get Started button.

    You will then be presented with a selection of templates to choose from. Don't worry too much about choosing the right template at this point, because we'll cover templates in the next chapter. Choose any template for now.

  3. Click on the thumbnail image for your chosen template.
  4. On the resulting screen, click on Start With This Design.
  5. Enter the information in the First Name and Last Name fields.

    Note

    Whatever you enter here will be your Squarespace Site Name, which is also used to create your site's unique Squarespace.com address. For example, if you enter...

Finding your way around Squarespace

In order to familiarize you with the Squarespace tools, let's take a quick tour of the main Squarespace editing areas, starting with the Squarespace Site Manager. The Site Manager is where you perform all tasks to set up and manage your website, and the Site Manager home screen is where you will land whenever you log in to your site.

The Site Manager home screen is shown here and is split into two parts:

Finding your way around Squarespace
  • Side panel: This is present on the left-hand side of the screen. This is where the different control menus appear. The side panel in this screenshot shows you the Home Menu, which allows you to navigate to the main areas of Squarespace. Each area gives you access to different sets of tools. The contents of the side panel will change depending on which area you are in.
  • Preview screen: This is present on the right-hand side of the screen. This large space is where you preview your website, edit content, make adjustments, and view the results. The Preview...

Logging in and out of Squarespace

Now that we've gone through an overview of the six main site management areas in Squarespace, it's a good time for one final stop on our introductory tour: logging in and out of the Squarespace editor.

If you've followed this chapter up until this point, you should still be logged in, so we'll cover logging out first. You can log out by following these steps:

  1. Ensure you are in the Home Menu and click on the user icon at the bottom of the side panel.
  2. In the pop-up shortcut box, click on the Logout button.

You will now be logged out and automatically directed to the public view of your website.

Tip

If you are still on a trial account, you will see a message indicating this instead of seeing your website's pages. This is because trial sites are not public yet.

Logging in

There are three different ways to log in to the Squarespace editor: two of them can be done on your Squarespace website, and the last one can be done on Squarespace's...

Adjusting basic site settings

Before you get too far down the line with your project, it's a good idea to set up some of the basic things related to your website. Have your website plan from your Website Toolkit handy, and let's get started.

All of the items we'll set up are in your Settings area, so log in and navigate to that area.

Adding Basic Information

Click on the link to open the Basic Information panel. As part of the initial setup, you should have already selected Site Type, so we can skip that and move on to Site Description. You can paste your Business Overview from your website plan here. Certain Squarespace templates show you this information on the homepage or sidebar.

Adding Basic Information

Site Description as it appears on the Aviator template

Next, decide whether you are happy for your website to be shown in Squarespace's index, and check the Promotion/Indexing box accordingly.

Finally, click on the Business Information link to load this section into the side panel. You may need...

Summary

You've now completed all of the essential administration setup for your site, so you are ready to start constructing your site. As mentioned in Chapter 1, Setting Up for Success—Your Website Toolkit, we'll be following a similar process as constructing a building: first, we'll put together the framework, then we'll install the core elements that make the site do what it needs to do, and lastly, we'll apply the visual finishing touches that make the site unique to you.

The next chapter focuses on one of the most critical decisions you will make in this project: choosing the right site template. The site template is what determines the overall shape of your website and what functions and structural elements it can have. In our building analogy, the template is what dictates whether the building can be a single story house, a hospital, a high-rise office building, or type of building.

Before choosing your template, it's essential that you understand...

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This book is ideal for anyone who wants to learn how to use the latest version of Squarespace to create a website from scratch and take it through to go-live. You don't need any prior experience with Squarespace, HTML or CSS, or building websites in general as everything is done using Squarespace's simple, browser-based interface.

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Table of Contents

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

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Sitting down with this book to work on my new website was like having a personal coach by my side. The tone of the book is encouraging, clear and engaging. I am a true beginner at website design. I would have been lost without this book. I tried for nearly a year to create my site on wordpress and felt like a failure. Now in just two weeks, I have created a website I am delighted with thanks to Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7 by Miko. The simple, step by step guides and screen shots make everything so clear, I heard my self say again and again, I can do that! And oh I get it. This book was a break through for me since it made me feel tech savvy instead of tech stupid. Thank you for this book!
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This book can be a tremendous help if you are considering a Squarespace web site. It is probably best to read the entire book, or skim it, before building the site. It is easy to read and actually quite interesting. There may be nothing that can't be found by visiting the help in Squarespace itself, but this will provide a great starting point and helper at your side while you work. There are many chapters covering the process and they are indexed well enough to be able to find something in particular. Availability as a Kindle book makes finding what you are looking for that much easier. If you build your site and follow the steps set forth in the sequence of the book, it will be a great assistant.
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A very well written book which is very useful, when it comes to making and maintaining your web site. It helps in leaning squarespace 7 very easily, even if you have no knowledge about it. It gives you good details on how you can effectively improve your websites. I highly recommend this book for web development.
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a good introduction to squarespace. can't wait for the follow-up. thanks!
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I wish this user guide was available long ago!
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