Build Websites from Scratch with Squarespace

Open the Squarespace interface and its changes, create your account for 14 days for free, set up a user profile, and adjust site settings as you take your first steps.

Explore the Squarespace interface in a cross-platform browser app, navigate the overview, login, and sidebar, and learn core concepts like templates, commerce, cover pages, color schemes, and site customization.

Log in to Squarespace, edit your profile to add an avatar, bio, and location with a map, and save. Enable e-mail notifications for comments and explore developer registration.

Adjust site settings in Squarespace to tailor basics, language, domains, and permissions, and configure social sharing, seo. Explore advanced options like code injection, developer mode, sitemaps, and EXIF/IPTC importing.

Plan your Squarespace project by evaluating templates, loading working files, and editing images. Explore Getty Images, create a logo and a fab icon, and customize templates to fit your brand.

Plan the Squarespace project with five questions: who, what, where, when, why to define your target audience and goals, then use color, attention, and motivation to boost results.

Change templates in Squarespace by previewing and installing templates, using live preview to compare designs, while noting that switching templates can reformat your site.

Design and create a logo and favicon for a Squarespace site by transforming the site title into a branded logo, choosing symbols, fonts, colors, and saving options.

Explore refining your Squarespace site by trimming unnecessary pages, renaming others, adding heading images across all pages, editing text blocks, and restoring deleted pages as your site grows.

Change heading images on your squarespace site by selecting, cropping, and saving customized thumbnails for each page, using your own images to refine focus and layout.

Learn how to restore deleted pages, re-link them in the navigation, and update the crew page images and titles in Squarespace.

Rename the crew page to management and edit the information text. Remove the powered by Squarespace credit from the FOTR content block and save changes.

Create a cover page in Squarespace by selecting a layout, customizing branding, imagery, and buttons, and set it as the home page to drive visitor action.

Explore site settings to control permissions, add social media, apply reusable styles for consistency, choose fonts with type kit, and implement announcements across your Squarespace site.

Explore essential Squarespace settings, including basic information, promotion and indexing, language, and time zones, plus domain management and connecting built-in or third-party domains.

Explore using the Squarespace style editor to customize site-wide colors, navigation, social icons, fonts, spacing, and header settings, while understanding template cautions and resets.

Explore how Squarespace's downloadable fonts and Adobe typekit integration expand font options, letting you customize page titles and styles with hundreds of web fonts.

Learn to use Squarespace to add and customize an announcement bar, mobile information bar, and a site badge, with desktop and mobile previews and clickable contact details.

Learn to add content beyond templates and create a new page. Build a photo gallery with spacers for layout, sell products, clean copied text, and schedule events in Squarespace.

Learn to add and configure a new page in Squarespace, moving from a template to a blank page, set header content and thumbnail, and center the layout.

Explore building a gallery in Squarespace by adding a slideshow block, uploading images, and customizing layout with carousel, grid, or stack options, including thumbnails, controls, and auto-save.

Use spacers to shrink gallery images and balance the layout on smaller screens. Adjust design settings to show and reduce thumbnails, then save and preview the page.

Create an album on Squarespace by uploading mp3 tracks. Drag to reorder tracks, preview playback of the sounds of the zoo, and manage page visibility with password protection.

Learn how to build and maintain an events calendar in Squarespace, adding events with dates, times, images, locations, and drafts, then publish and manage ongoing calendar updates with content editors.

Upgrade to a paid Squarespace plan with different tiers, then set up an e-commerce page and a blog. Manage posts and comments and configure blog settings to control interactions.

Begin with a 14-day free Squarespace trial, then choose a paid plan—personal or professional—upgrade later with no penalty, and access unlimited pages, e-commerce, custom domain, and support.

Create and format blog posts in Squarespace, including titles, content, thumbnails, excerpts, and scheduling. Manage comments with on/off, moderation, like, reply, and flagging for a safe reader experience.

Learn how to manage a Squarespace blog's settings and comments, including post formats, simple linking, approval workflows, anonymous commenting, threading, avatars, moderation, and flagging.

Learn how to build pages in Squarespace using blocks, arrange them into columns with spacers, add testimonials and quotes, and save your layout.

Simplify the first page by removing distractions, keeping only the tiger image and the menu, and delete extraneous text and spacers to create an intuitive, clutter-free website.

Reorganize and clean the site navigation by moving the home page, deleting unused items, and reordering sections like events, gallery, products, and blog for better accessibility.

Embed a YouTube video into a Squarespace slideshow by renaming the area to multimedia and placing it inline, choose public or private videos with a custom thumbnail before saving.

Add a search field to your Squarespace site on the home page to help visitors find content by typing keywords, boosting usability and keeping users longer on the site.

Explore adjusting for different devices in Squarespace by previewing desktop, tablet, and smartphone views. Verify and optimize pages across devices to ensure multi-purpose templates render well.

Explore what comes next after mastering Squarespace by testing yourself and venturing into advanced areas to increase your knowledge and push through to build complex sites.