Training Tutorials for your website success
Training tutorials
Squarespace has great help which you can access via your panel when logged in or you can go here. You can search by topic, read their guides or contact support (email or chat).
There are some general tutorials in the section below.
An important note about uploading photos to your website
All images that are uploaded to a website should be optimized for website viewing. This helps with your website load time. If you upload full size images your site speed will be greatly compromised and Google will penalize you in search results.
Please read this blog post for information about compressing your photos: https://www.jodineufelddesign.com/blog/how-to-get-your-website-to-load-quicker
Videos specific to your Site
Introduction to Squarespace 7.1
Editing any of the Service pages
Editing the About page (also how to credit photographers)
Miscellaneous pages and how to move blog to main navigation
Blogging:
Blog settings - number of posts, managing categories etc
Ceremony Ideas page:
How to edit Ceremony Ideas page
Link to page: https://colleenolafson.ca/ceremony-ideas
Crediting Photographers:
Steps to take to launch your new site
Please follow these checklists to launch your new site. These checklist are in Notion. You can create a free account and duplicate them if you would like to have copy that you check off.
General Squarespace Help
Create pages to build your site, then organize your pages in a navigation menu to help visitors explore. There a few types of pages:
Layout Pages create custom layouts of text and other content.
Collections serve specific purposes and have designs that vary between templates.
Pages, folders, and navigation links are more options for organizing your content.
The Pages panel is where you build your site's structure and navigation with pages.
Watch this Pages video tutorial from our Getting Started Series.
Pages and blocks
Layout Pages support blocks, letting you arrange images, videos, text, maps, and more in a customized layout.
Collections
Collection pages support specific purposes, such as displaying upcoming events or showcasing a gallery of images. Collections are available in all templates, and their designs and features vary.
Gallery Pages display galleries of images and videos.
Create and manage an online store using a Store Page.
Create a blog with a Blog Page.
Events Pages display events as a calendar or list.
Add a playlist of audio files with an Album Page.
To visit the official getting started guide, click the link here: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206795137