Stand out now with your website thanks to Squarespace.

Yes, regardless of your IT background, you can now start your own blog, portfolio or online store with Squarespace! The modern and incredibly easy to use and all-in-one platform, like “webs.com” and “weebly.com”.

What is Squarespace?

Squarespace is SaaS-based content management system (CMS), integrated website builder, blogging platform and hosting service, it gives you everything you need to start and maintain your business. This  is composed of a website builder, blogging platform and hosting service.

What does they provide you?

Here are some features you may need to be familiar with:

USABILIT

It’s the best choice for individuals or businesses to launch their own websites simply and professionally without spending learning time! It provides creative tools to create an exceptional website, and you can find many tutorials to figure out by yourself how to start building your website.

RESPONSIVE LAYOUTS

You don’t need to care about responsiveness issue! You customize your interface once (ok desktop), and view it for different devices (tablet, mobile, laptop, …)

14-DAYS TRIAL

A free, 14-days time frame in which you can use their platform and see if it is for you or not. Beautiful, already built luxury templates that make your site look stunning.

PROFESSIONAL TEMPLATES

There are not a lot of these templates (compared with other website builders, for example, with Wix), but they are each unique. Although they are not free, but they don’t charge a large fee!

FREE, UNLIMITED HOSTING

Squarespace gives you no limits on your site’s storage and bandwidth. Squarespace’s global hosting network handles billions of hits every month on behalf of our customers and seamlessly scales with your traffic as it grows.

SSL CERTIFIED SSL

secures visitors’ connections to your site and improves your ranking in Google search results. All Squarespace websites come with free 2048-bit SSL certificates, which are created and renewed automatically.

BUILT-IN SECURITY

With Squarespace, there are no security patches to install or software to update. Your site is always protected from malware or buggy plugins.

EXPERT CUSTOMER CARE

You get personalized support from highly-trained professionals. Customer Care Advisors provide solutions based on deep knowledge of Squarespace. Reach out any time!

What if I already have a domain?

It’s simple to transfer your third-party domain to Squarespace and get all of the same benefits as buying a domain from Squarespace.

How do I start using Squarespace?

STEP 1: Type the following URL into your browser address bar: www.squarespace.com

You are now in the Squarespace website and can see the following view, click the left black button Get Started

squarespace website

STEP 2: You are now on the templates page

squarespace templates.

Select the appropriate template for your site, I selected the FORTE one:

Click Start with to select the theme, or preview to see a live preview for the theme to make sure that it matches your needs.

STEP 3: As you select the template, you see the following form, fill in this and click sign up:

squarespace sign up

STEP 4: You can now see a group of optional questions that will help customizing your website, if you don’t want to answer, simply click SKIP

STEP 5: You have now established your free website, on the right you can see a live view for the site, the dashboard is the left menu, now it is your guide for the all of your needs!

what is squarespace

PAGES MENU

Click on Pages to view the existing pages:

squarespace-page-edit

You can now see the existing pages and the options for new pages creation:

squarespace

Note the quick editing black buttons on the live preview part for the current page as you move the mouse over that.

Back to the dashboard, you have the names of already existing pages (demo pages), to edit or remove them, click the “gear” icon to see the following popup:

Select Delete to remove it, or Create to start a new one:

If you click Create, then you are asked to fill the new page information as in the image below:

Click Save to create your new page.

Note that the page is Album type, which is referred to by the icon on the left of the page we selected at the beginning, so we have the area dedicated for images uploading, click on the blank area and select the images you wish

squarespace tips

You can make sure that the image was successfully uploaded by looking at the thumbnail, and the left live preview:

To create new (non-demo) page, click on the menu Add Page, you then have a popup that asks you to select the page type:

squarespace-page-new

For example, I selected the page type: you can now select the appropriate template and start filling your data as you wish!

create page

DESIGN MENU

Here is the simplest but most important section that lets specify your website customization. We would here mention some basic and the frequently used menu items.

Logo and Title section, lets you naming your site and assigning a logo image to view on different specified parts of the site.

Template: lets you changing the current template:

Style Editor: an also necessary part that lets you customize headings, navigation, motions, typography and backgrounds colors and other options (usually depending on the selected theme)

Style Editor

Finally, we can say that Squarespace is a fully integrated IT department, with free, unlimited hosting, top-of-the-line security, an enterprise-grade infrastructure, and around-the-clock support.

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