Create a website without writing code

Learn how to set up a Squarespace account, choose a starting template (switchable later), and sign up with a name, email, and password to create your site.

Install new Squarespace templates, explore top themes, and decide on a direction for your site by evaluating look, functionality, and how features like parallax and call-to-action appear.

Set up your account and start a Squarespace tour, exploring each area of the site and learning what everything does. Gain a clearer understanding of Squarespace capabilities for your business.

Navigate the pages tab to delete demo content and create new pages or folders. Organize navigation by nesting pages, and add external links like Google.

Explore design tab to customize your site: update the title and logo, set the browser icon, and use the style editor, announcement bar, and mobile information bar.

Understand how Squarespace's built-in metrics capture traffic, audience size, visits, page views, mobile usage, referrers, popular content, and optional Google Analytics linking.

Learn to use the visual editor to add and arrange site content with blocks, insert images, adjust layout with drag-and-drop, and create text wraps and columns, including social links.

Learn to create and manage Squarespace galleries, upload images, and use existing galleries to link visuals across pages, with grid and slideshow designs, thumbnails, and light box.

Learn to add a map block in Squarespace, enter a business name and address, and adjust zoom, dimensions, and width to reveal streets and nearby businesses.

Learn to use the Squarespace summary block to showcase blog posts, galleries, or products without code in grid, list, carousel, or auto columns layouts, with customizable metadata.

Use the style editor to customize the navigation background, fonts, colors, spacing, and position, including link colors, hover and active states, and left, center, or right alignment with icons.

Learn to set up a blog on Squarespace, create posts with rich media, optimize with thumbnails, excerpts, and SEO tags, and customize layout with sidebars and a style editor.

Learn to expand your store by adding more products, setting up e-commerce basics, and configuring orders, payments, shipping, taxes, and inventory with Stripe and ShipStation integrations.

Discover Squarespace cover pages, a recently released feature that lets you build a simple one-page site to promote events, product launches, or videos.

Plan your Squarespace site using mind Meister to create a sitemap and map home, about, photos, and contact pages, define page purpose and call to action to improve site flow.

Create a simple about page by adding an artist statement, pasting plain text, and setting a consistent layout; include a footer call to action linking the gallery and photos pages.

Create a basic contact page by adding a banner image, a simplified name field, and a mailto link, then configure a form to email Elizabeth.

Launch your website built from scratch and publish it live on your domain. Watch how to turn your design into a live site.