With this course I walk you through the entire process of building a website from scratch. I'll show you every step I used to build my own website, and you can just follow along to build yours. I make all the tough decisions for you! What is Squarespace? The easiest and most cost-effective way to build a website is to use a platform.
Squarespace is a template-based website platform that I use and recommend because of it's ease-of-use, beautiful templates, built-in eCommerce tools, and automatic responsive design which is a fancy way of saying your website will look good on smart phones, tablets and desktop screens. You can sign up for Squarespace with their day free trial while you complete this course. If you're happy with your website you can sign up for one of their affordable accounts, or you can let your free account expire with no charge.
I have done my research and Squarespace has very affordable and comparable pricing plans relative to competitors. This is a hand-holding course. I want you to follow the course videos in order from start to finish so you'll be able to set up your Squarespace site, add pages, create an eCommerce store, a sales page, and a blog.
If you want a pretty "typical" website, this course if for you. I want to be clear that to complete this course, you'll need to have a Squarespace account. Squarespace has a day free trial. But after that, there is a monthly or annual paid subscription.
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I believe that the services received by using a premium website platform like Squarespace is worth the cost. But you have to make your own decision about this. Let me know if you have any questions about the Squarespace platform and I'll do my best to answer them.
The tutorial walks through every step I took to create my Humans of Nelson website with Squarespace. Squarespace has a day free trial, and this will be plenty of time for you to complete this course and have your website up and running. If you're not satisfied, you may cancel your Squarespace account at no penalty. You may wish to browse around the pre-loaded pages to see how the Squarespace theme displays various content. But once you've done that, it's easier to just delete all the default content and build our new website from scratch.
Almost every website should have a contact page. This lecture shows you how to set up that page - including text, a photo, and a contact form. Squarespace allows you to customize fonts and colours for your site. This lecture is our first taste at using the Site Design tool in Squarespace. The About Page shows some more complex ways to layout a Squarespace page. The ability to add a "donate" button is a very cool feature in Squarespace.
The homepage design I show in this demo is very specific to the Humans of Nelson website I am building. You'll need to consider the right content and goals for your homepage.
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Your website may not need an eCommerce store. But it's a great feature that Squarespace and is fairly easy to setup - compared to other online eCommerce solutions I've tried out. The announcement bar is an easy way to get your visitors attention. The bar shows up at the top of every page on your site.
The Favicon is something many people forget to add to a new website but can really help make it look professional. The Favicon is an icon that shows up on most browser tabs. Squarespace Logo Creator tool makes it easy to create an upload a favicon. Many website include a blog. Even though my Humans of Nelson site doesn't have a blog, I created this lecture to show you how to set up a blog in Squarespace. Search for anything. Udemy for Business. Try Udemy for Business. EBW 1 year ago. Simian 1 year ago. Natasha Willett 1 year ago. Hi Simian, Enjoy creating that SquareSpace site. David Cory Enderby 1 year ago.
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It would be great to see your Squarespace site when you build it! Damla 2 years ago. Thank you so much for really objectifying the different needs of people with real examples. Also huge thanks for the offer code! Hi Damla, Great to hear that you found the discussion useful. Feel free to share on your social channels if you think others might benefit too - it's a nice way of paying it forward! Kahto 2 years ago. Glad to have you verify the reco's i've had for squarespace. Thanks for the insight! I have a domain name through google with a site on blogger.
I want to transfer the domain and site to squarespace and see that I can do that but will I be paying twice? Google for the domain name and squarespace for the website?