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101: Learn Squarespace CSS Tricks From These Six Experts
Now, it’s a given that you can build a decent website using the pre-designed layouts and templates from Squarespace. But from time to time, you will want to add a design element to your Squarespace Website that will requires a some CSS code. I’m self-taught when it comes to CSS and I have many of my talented colleagues to thank for showing me their tips and tricks when it comes to adding that special look to any Squarespace website. And I’d today, I’d like to share 5 of them with you so that you can tap into the wealth of resources they have created. Let’s get started.
095: New Squarespace Circle Webinar
Needless to say, I am super excited to be leading a live webinar for my fellow web designers and creatives at Squarespace Circle and I’ll be talking about creating a client onboarding process that wows and helps your client deliver the content you need before you start project. Happening on Aug 17th at 11 am ET. Sign up below.
094: How to Connect Squarespace Shop with ConvertKit
Squarespace is a platform that speaks with other apps and systems that you may be using to run your online business. Such integrations often need an API key that’s generated in your Squarespace dashboard. Let me show you where you can create it.
093: How to Generate An API Key in Squarespace
Squarespace is a platform that speaks with other apps and systems that you may be using to run your online business. Such integrations often need an API key that’s generated in your Squarespace dashboard. Let me show you where you can create it.
092: 5 Steps to Easily Set Up Member Areas
Member Areas is a new feature rolled out by Squarespace that allows you to host an online course, offer a membership or other content behind a paywall or offer free curated content for specific users, all on your website.
In Blog + Video No. 091, I walked you through the steps for setting up a login page so that your students can sign into your program. In this video, I want to show you the first four of the five steps you need to make your online course/membership content available for purchase.
091: How to Set Up Login Page for Squarespace Member Areas
There’s a lot to cover about Member Areas but for today, I want to address only one thing and that is how do enable a login feature so that your students can sign into your program.
090: What James Clear's Website Taught Me About Presenting Your One Thing
With the start of the new year, you may be thinking of giving your website a fresh new look. But before you scroll through new templates or change up the font or the color, I suggest you look at your website and ask yourself this question:
Is my website clearly presenting my no. 1 goal to my visitors within seconds of them arriving on the site? This single question will prove to be more effective in using your website to help realize the goals you have for your business.
085: How to Connect A Parked Domain to Your Squarespace Website
Did you purchase a domain name on Squarespace just so that you could secure it now and use it later when you are ready for a new website? Or you have a website already with a it’s own domain but now you want to direct to it a second domain that you had previously purchased on Squarespace?
In either case, if you have a “parked” domain name, a domain name sitting in your account but not being used anywhere, and want to connect it to a new or existing website, then this blog + step by step video will help you get that done.
083: 6 Ways to Save Time in Your Business with Squarespace Scheduling
6 Ways to Save Time in Your Business with Squarespace Scheduling
Workflows. Processes. Systems.
Making the most of these will surely help you save time and streamline your business. But what if you can use a tool that not only saves you time but also opens up a streamlined way to generate new revenue in your business?
Enter Squarespace Scheduling.
082: How to Open A Free Trial on Squarespace - the Exact Steps Demo
How to Start A Free Trial On Squarespace
It’s important that you get a feel of the website building platform before you go ahead and hire a designer or start building your website yourself. So how do you do that? Start with a 14 day free trial. You won’t need a credit card. Just an email address.
So here’s how.
There are at least 5 good reasons why I think so:
081: 5 Reasons Why I Love Squarespace: The Best Website Builder for Online Entrepreneurs
5 Reasons Why Squarespace Is the Best Website Builder Out There for Online Entrepreneurs
As you might have guessed, as a Web Designer who specialized on Squarespace websites, I am a big proponent of Squarespace for building your online presence. If you are an entrepreneur of any kind - whether you are an author, an artist, or a creator or if you are someone who has an idea, someone who wants to inspire and impact positive change, Squarespace is your platform - the best platform in my opinion and experience.
There are at least 5 good reasons why I think so:
080: How to Remove Background from Photos using Canva
In this video tutorial, I take just over 5 minutes to show you how to remove background from your photos using an app called Canva. Also get the complimentary link to try Canva Pro for 30 days!
078: How to add anchor links within blog posts
If you have a long-from blog posts that cover a lot of content, then consider using anchor links to break up the flow of the content. Anchor links in blog posts allow you to have a list of quick links at the start of the article so the reader can jump to the relevant section instead of having to scroll.
077: How to present a collection of pages using anchor links
Anchor links are a great way to showcase a collection of pages. Use it for your Services page, 3 Best Blogs, or a collection of your best Resources.
076: Squarespace SEO: 22 actionable things you can do (Part three)
I call this a Beginner’s Guide because these really are the first steps to get your site set-up for SEO. There’s always tons you can do but if you do these 22 things, you will be off to a great start. Some are to one-off steps, while others can become part of your SEO checklist for whenever you upload a blog or add a new page to your site.
071: How to Remove Date From Blog - All Brine Family Templates
There is so much one can do with their Squarespace websites without even going into extra code. This blog and video was inspired by a comment on my YouTube Video for Blog 026 which was about removing the date from blogs in the Hayden and Pacific templates. Here I show you how to do so for all templates in the Brine Family.
070: 3 Ways to edit your blog on Squarespace
You most likely have a blog on your Squarespace website (if you don’t it’s not too late - start today!). And if you are still editing on the tiny little screen that opens up when you click on edit inside your blog page, you will love today’s quick video. I am showing you three ways to edit your blog and two of them make you feel like you are editing on a word processor.
064: How to tweak the design of your Mailchimp opt-in form on your Squarespace website?
In this video and blog article, you will see how to make your opt-in form a little more pretty. Change colors of the form or make it completely transparent. You will do this all without any code. All you need is to follow the steps and play around with your settings under Design> Site Styles.
061: How to Add Video Clip in the Banner?
Demonstrating a message with moving images rather than just text is a powerful way to set the tone for your site. Adding a video clip to your website’s banner is one way to do that. It creates a certain mood for that specific page and it is easy to set up as you will see in this 3 min video.