Training links + Helpful resources

Squarespace tips

• This is a good login page to see both the live website and your sandbox site: https://account.squarespace.com/

  • The “sandbox” website will be available through December 2024 and you can find it here: https://karen-sandbox-2.squarespace.com/config

  • And the earlier version of your sandbox is here https://karen-gros-sandbox.squarespace.com/config

• Introduction to your Squarespace website including page structure and horizontal sections (video, 7 mins)

  • How to make a new page (video, 7 mins) - either duplicate an existing page, or start with a blank page

• Fonts: Introduction to global fonts in Squarespace (video, 4 mins) ; Squarespace help page explaining fonts

• Images: my overview of working with image types on your website (video, 14 mins) ; Squarespace video series for images

• Blogging:

  • Introduction to working with your blog posts (video, 6 mins) ; Squarespace introduction to blogging

    • I have double-deleted those nasty spam comments; you won’t see those now

  • Blogging: important settings before you publish (video, 7 mins)

  • Blogging: how to make a new blog post (video, 6 mins)

  • Information from Squarespace about setting a “paywall” for your second Recipes blog

• How-to’s from your Markup requests

  • How to move a page out of the main menu (3 mins)

  • How to move the testimonials section down the page (1 min)

• Event tickets: TicketTailor integration: finding the code and where it goes on your Squarespace page (video, 4 mins)

• Testimonials: these are organized as List Sections - here’s why, and how to edit them (video, 4 mins)

• PDFs: How to replace a PDF (for example, on your media page)

• Amazon blocks: how to change and add Amazon products on your Recommended Products page (video, 7 mins)

• Pitfalls! 3 tips to help when you make text edits or move something (video, 7 mins) - made for another client, but exactly the same information applies for you

• Analytics: how to find the in-built Squarespace analytics data

Future support

• Here are the Squarespace help pages and the Squarespace help team is available free, 24x7

• For 2 weeks after our project (through Friday, July 12), I offer email answers to your questions, and/or fixes for any errors I made, during business hours.

• For extra work, website changes or additional training from me, here are my services available for past clients only

How to promote your new website

• Here’s my list of suggestions for announcing your new website

Other useful links

• Amazon resources for using your affiliate ID

  • Video with a few tips about affiliate links (3 mins)

  • Amazon help page where you can install the “Site Stripe” browser extension

• Here is our Google Drive location where I will put some useful images that I created during the project.

  • After we finish together, I will put some screenshots of the new website here too.