Domains and Privacy
Domains are the www. name that you give your business or nonprofit organization website. It is a URL or web address used to find your website. By creating a custom domain, you give your website a professional look and make it easy for visitors to find you.
Form Blocks in Squarespace
Form blocks are fantastic way to gather information from a visitor to your website. You can ask a variety of questions from them and have it either marked required or not so they can choose to give you the information they want to share.
Squarespace Basics: Basic Authors
Inviting others to add information on your website thereby updating the content is important.
Basic authors do not need an account. They can add to blog posts and event update event content on the website.
How do I keep the same colors across my website and social media?
Making sure that your website and all social media have the same logo, colors and fonts is important. Make sure that your colors are exactly the same, so you don’t have to guess.
Creating a QR code
QR stands for Quick Response. A QR code is simply a barcode easily readable with a digital device. You use the camera app on your phone and this little QR code redirects to a website. For marketing purposes alone this is amazing. Why not put it on your business card and make flyers that contain less information but when someone scans your QR code they can be directed to your website and can explore from there.
Squarespace Basics: Inviting a Contributor
Inviting others to add content to your website may be helpful. For many businesses and nonprofit organizations contributors may be added so different people can be responsible for various section(s) of the website.
Squarespace Basics: Business Information
The business information is the key information for your business or nonprofit organization. It lets the visitors to your website know how to contact you and where you are located.
Squarespace Basics: Menu Shortcuts
Squarespace has added some easy shortcuts that can be added to you home menu and allows you to quickly click one time instead of multiple to go to another area.
How do I get started with a Small Business website in 2022?
Last year was a very l-o-n-g year. In 2020 many businesses went through various changes and continue to change. It may be time to recreate an old website or start fresh.
Squarespace Basics: Site Availability
Find out more about how to set your site availability. You can choose from private, password protected, and public.
How to get your website ready for a new year…It’s all about SEO
Make sure your website is ready for next year by adding information to drive visitors to your site.
Prepare your discounts and sales for 2022
Squarespace has the tools to help you plan for sales and discounts in advance.
How to carry a color scheme across your website, marketing, and social media
When you create a brand, you create an image for your small business or nonprofit organization. That brand is usually made of a logo, colors, and specific fonts. These items identify you to your clients or membership.
Squarespace Basics: Button Design
I absolutely love when Squarespace makes even the smallest change. These changes allow you to customize your website and really make it your own.
Squarespace Basics: Image Shapes
You can now upload a picture and drop it in an image shape. Try many different shapes until you find what looks the best for your website needs. There is so much variety in the shapes and they can be added to any image block layout.
Choosing a domain extension
Building a website is a lot of work but once finished you feel wonderful. Singing from the rooftops wonderful. BUT don’t forget the domain. The domain is the www. address that you key into a search bar.
Get ready for Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday is the e-commerce deep discount day following Thanksgiving weekend. Get your website ready for this e-commerce shopping day.
Squarespace Commerce Basics: Sale Prices
Sales are all part of business for your Online|Commerce website. Regular prices need to be altered to reflect the new sale price. In Squarespace the visitor will see the regular crossed out and a sale price added.
CTA and your Website
Once the visitor to your website has started the conversation and enabled their Call To Action it’s your turn to continue the conversation.
May Web Design, LLC Video
I was so happy to blog about the The Introduction of Squarespace Video Studio. I had so much fun creating videos and I thought I would share the first video for my business.