Tutorials

In this video we show a few of my favorite templates for: designers, restaurants, online stores, our ABSOLUTE FAVORITE template for any purpose: Hunter (and the rest of the “Brine” family).

Start building a Squarespace site by adding the basic info for you or your business, learn about where you edit content, style your site, and check your site traffic analytics in the Squarespace content management system.

Learn about all the different type of content blocks you can add to your pages and how to move them around to make your content look like you see it in your head.

Duplicate pages to save tons of time, create a long scrolling index home page, the "line break" technique when formatting text, and how to add emojis to your copy with OSX.

Make beautiful, full-page galleries/grids/slideshows with the most flexible Squarespace template: Hunter. Also, learn how to add text overlays on top of the images.

Why adding content to your footer will keep users on your site longer. How to add images/logos to your footer. Types of image layouts (SUPER USEFUL) and a key concept: how/why to make a link open up in a new tab.

Add your Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/YouTube/Yelp/etc. icons to your website, Change the look/style of your social icons (outline vs. solid vs. circle vs. square vs. rounded square, size & color).

Add an Instagram, Twitter, or Soundcloud feeds directly to your website. Post to the social media account from your phone, it shows up immediately on your site. By far the best way to "update your site" without actually updating your site.

Your contact page is one of the most important but often the most overlooked pages of your website. Take two minutes and make a simple, to-the-point contact page.

Blogs are by far the best way to drive traffic to your website... if you actually make them, and make them the right way. Create highly valuable content to give your users a reason to keep coming back to your site.

We duplicated this very blog post with the techniques shown in this video. Stop wasting time creating everything from scratch! Create an awesome template with a bunch of dummy content and duplicate it to save formatting time and keep a consistent look to your blog posts.

Use your Squarespace Event Calendar to announce upcoming gigs, shows, concerts, events, or just create a personal public calendar. Add thumbnail images, Google Map links to the address of the event and post the event directly to all your social media accounts in one click.

Make your site look pretty the easy way, with no coding experience necessary. Squarespace's "Style Editor" has everything you need to change fonts, colors, and formatting by just pointing and clicking.

ADVANCED TOPIC: Get a brief intro on how to use Chrome's "Dev Tools" to target specific elements on your Squarespace website to alter any style with Custom CSS.

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Pick a starter template, set the cover page as your homepage while your site is under construction/maintenance, and change the text/CTA (call to action buttons)/ background image.