Squarespace Essential Training

Course details

Learn how to use Squarespace to design, build, and host stylish websites without needing to code or manage servers. Instructor Jen Kramer helps you get up to speed with this popular platform, stepping through the creation of a website for a small business. Jen spells out how the Squarespace service works and shows how to create pages, upload images, and work with assets within Squarespace, as well as manage site structure and navigation. Plus, she explains how to launch your Squarespace-hosted site. Whether you're well versed in web design or you have little to no coding experience, this course can help you leverage Squarespace to bring your website ideas to life.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Building beautiful, customizable websites without code

1. Squarespace Overview

02 - Comparing basic vs. premium options in Squarespace
03 - Using Squarespace Help

2. Creating Your First Website in Squarespace

04 - Defining a small business informational site project
05 - Creating an account and choosing a theme
06 - Entering basic settings
07 - Choosing and changing website fonts
08 - Choosing and changing website colors
09 - Edit the site header, logo, and navigation
10 - Designing the homepage banner
11 - Working with text and photos in the About section
12 - Creating a large image carousel
13 - Modifying the footer text
14 - Adding the browser icon and social sharing image
15 - Working with blank starter pages and adding blank sections
16 - Creating links in content to other pages and offsite
17 - Creating a contact page and configuring a contact form
18 - Adding a button block
19 - Working with the Portfolio feature
20 - Challenge - Finishing the portfolio
21 - Solution

3. Launching Your First Site

22 - Add a domain from Squarespace and transfer a domain you own
23 - Sharing a site in trial mode
24 - Examining analytics

4. Exploring New Site Styles in Squarespace

25 - Choosing colors for your site and creating color themes
26 - Choosing a font stack and assigning fonts to styles
27 - Adding sections and features to web pages
28 - Applying site styles to web page sections

Conclusion

29 - Goodbye

Squarespace Essential Training

Authors

Jen Kramer