Squarespace Essential Training: Content Types
2h 6mIntermediate2020-10-15
Authors

Jen Kramer
Teaches web design and development
Course details
Squarespace websites offer a variety of content types that you can leverage to make your sites more interactive and engaging. In this course, explore the different types of pages and content that you can add and tailor for your website. Learn how to set up a blog on your Squarespace website, including how to customize the design and include media files. Find out how to post new blog content featuring images. See how to create a new website that can display your upcoming events, complete with a sign-up page so visitors can receive newsletters and notifications. Put these new site-building skills together as you follow along with the final example project where you get to see a microsite built for a restaurant.
Skills covered
SquarespaceContent Management Systems (CMS)Essential TrainingWeb Development
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Take your Squarespace site to the next level
1. Blogging with Squarespace
- 02 - Adding a blog to the site
- 03 - Configuring the blog settings
- 04 - Adding photos to the blog post
- 05 - Adding a video block to the blog post
- 06 - Challenge - Adding blog posts
- 07 - Solution - Adding blog posts
2. Events and Newsletters in Squarespace
- 08 - Defining a conference website project
- 09 - Starting with a blank theme, a color palette, and fonts
- 10 - Configuring the header, navigation, and footer
- 11 - Configuring a page banner and adding text and images
- 12 - Adding an events page and entering upcoming events
- 13 - Changing the display of the Events page
- 14 - Adding events to the homepage
- 15 - Integrating email newsletter signup
- 16 - Challenge - Creating a contact page
- 17 - Solution
3. Creating a Restaurant Website with Menu and Image Gallery
- 18 - Defining a single-page restaurant website project
- 19 - Configuring the image gallery
- 20 - Styling the image gallery
- 21 - Understanding the restaurant menu options
- 22 - Configuring and posting the menu
- 23 - Challenge - What else is missing
- 24 - Solution
Conclusion
- 25 - Goodbye
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