How to use Squarespace: Make Your Own Creative Website

Name: How to use Squarespace: Make Your Own Creative Website
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Taking a Squarespace and making it super unique and creative> No code is needed here.

Created byJon Wolfgang Miller

Last updated 4/2024

English

English [Auto],

What you'll learn

How to make a Squarespace website
How to build a website without using code
The importance of website flow and visual balance
How to set up blog posts
How to use website animation
How to break away from a website template, and make a unique site
How to make a website work on desktop, tablet and mobile

Course content

4 sections • 13 lectures • 2h 5m total length

Introduction1:48
Learn to use Squarespace to build a personalized, professional website starting from a plain template, with home, about, contact, and blog pages, global elements, branding, and background animations.
Class Project1:12
Follow along to build your awesome Squarespace website, starting with setup and the home page, then create your about, contact, and blog pages with background animations.

Squarespace Set Up7:37
Set up a Squarespace site by exploring templates, starting a free trial without a credit card, and building a retro video games blog with customizable pages and navigation.
Global Elements15:28
Edit the back end to apply consistent colors and fonts across your Squarespace site, using site styles to build a bright 80s–90s palette and typography.
Your Website Header11:25
Learn to customize a Squarespace header by editing fonts, logo and site title with Puffin Arcade, adjusting size, letter spacing, and responsive desktop and mobile layouts. Configure the navigation, set a Get in touch button linking to the contact page, social links, and color styles across global, desktop, and mobile views.

Web Design: Homepage A15:40
Customize a Squarespace home page with a hero section, pink colors, and blog previews in a carousel; configure sections, metadata, and links to about and all blogs.
Web Design: Homepage B14:53
Learn to customize a Squarespace homepage by editing sections and applying overlays. Design a retro arcade themed page with headlines, fonts, colors, and a footer.
Web Design: Background Animation9:08
Experiment with hero background options—image, video, or art—and tune color palettes, motion, and opacity to create a retro eighties vibe with a subtle animated grid across the page.
Web Design: About Page14:24
Create a consistent Squarespace about page that matches your home page using templates, imagery, typography, and a blog link button to guide visitors.
Web Design: Contact Page4:46
Create a simple, neat contact page in Squarespace with email, telephone, and social links. Replace the image and adjust background colors, then check the mobile view.
Web Design: Blogs19:15
Learn to customize the blog page in Squarespace by adjusting fonts and headings, refining layouts, enabling read more links, and organizing posts with categories for better SEO.

Requirements

Be super creative :)
Website research, being able to pick out what works

Description

Making websites can be a little bit tricky these days, but you will find there are loads of different programs out there to help you.

One of the BEST of these has to be Squarespace. With Squarespace you can take one of their pre-made templates and you can tear it all apart and play around with the design. And right now I am gonna show you how to be SUPER CREATIVE with your brand new website.

Here is what you will learn:

Squarespace account setup
Template research
How to get SUPER CREATIVE with a pre-made template, and give it all your own style
How to change colours and fonts
How to add background animations
How to make sure your new website looks great on laptop and mobile

This course is perfect for:

Beginners - If you have never used Squarespace and you have never built a website this will talk you through the site building basics, and show you how to take those into your own beautiful style.
Experienced Website designers - For those of you comfortable with Squarespace this will show you how to take a pre-made template and make it look super unique.

When your website is complete and live post it here in the projects section and I’ll give you my full feedback.

Credits

Music - Calm Dance by AleXZavesa
Extra film footage - Samuel Hesketh

Type/font info
fonts(dot)google(dot)com/knowledge/choosing_type

Who this course is for:

Website Beginners

How to use Squarespace: Make Your Own Creative Website

What you'll learn

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 3min

Squarespace Set-up and Global Elements3 lectures • 35min

Build Your Own Unique Website6 lectures • 1hr 18min

Review and Extras2 lectures • 10min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: