How to customize your Squarespace template
Welcome to Day 3 of my Live Video Training Extravaganza!
On Monday June 29, 2019, I kicked things off with the first daily live video training over on my Youtube channel and every day this week (and probably next week too!), I’ll be doing even more live video trainings for you… and then sharing the replays here on the blog.
Day 3’s video training was a blast and and I can’t wait for you to watch the replay.
In this video training, we talked all about how to customize your Squarespace template.
I built on Day 2’s video topic which was all about how to choose the right Squarespace template (watch that here) and took you forward through the template customization process. LOTS of amazing information here all about the settings, features and design of your Squarespace template!
I love talking about ways to customize your Squarespace template because NOBODY wants a basic bitty website. Nope, we have zero interest in a run-of-the-mill website that obviously looks like a template. Customization is so powerful because it allows you to truly make your website your own, embrace a look & feel that reflects your brand/business, and really speaks to your ideal clients online.
Ready to dive right in?
Click the live video training replay below to watch now!
Customizing your Squarespace template
Click play to watch the video above or on my Youtube channel
Here’s what we talked about in this video training:
Customize the Site styles & design : Fonts, colors, headers, navigation display (placement, above/below logo, etc.), buttons (shapes, sizes, colors), background color of site, padding, etc.
Pages & Posts : Pages (blog post) vs Pages (Home, About, Services, Contact pages, etc.). I love building Index pages because they offer more customizations that Regular pages (full width images, background colors for sections)
Make use of various content blocks: Summary block (grid, carousel), Gallery blocks (great for photos, portfolios, visual content), search bar, quote section, events
Reformat sizes of elements on a page/post : e.g., image size (full width, half screen)
Columns using Spacer blocks
Squarespace settings/features to customize: Favicon, Social Sharing Logo, Parallax Scrolling, Blog Sidebar, Navigation/menu (location, use folders for drop-down functionality), Announcement bar and popups
FREE RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO TRAINING:
DAILY VIDEOS FOR THE LIVE VIDEO TRAINING EXTRAVAGANZA
As I mentioned, this video is Day 3 of my Live Video Training Extravaganza and I’m PUMPED to be sharing so much free content, knowledge, information, strategies and tech tips with you!
I’ll be going live every day over on my Youtube channel sharing a free video training all about Squarespace, SEO, web design & development, online business, and a whole lot more.
We’re going to be talking about how you can grow your website, connect with your ideal audience online, attract dream clients and customers, and improve the look/feel/functionality of your website. Ready to up-level? PERFECT because my friend, you are in the right place and I’m sharing all my “secrets” to get you there.
I have a few topics in mind but I’d LOVE to hear from you! If there’s anything you want me to talk about, any questions you want answered, any strategies you want me to debunk or explain, please let me know by leaving me a comment below. I’m open to suggestions because I want to make sure that these video trainings are super valuable and exactly what you’re dying to learn from me. So don’t be shy, consider this your invitation to pick my brain!
See you back here or over on my Youtube channel for Day 4’s free live video training :)
News flash : there’s a global pandemic going on 😷
At this point, we’re several weeks in and the initial shock over COVID-19 has passed… but now we’re faced with this “new normal” situation and everyone’s doing their best to figure out how to make the most of it. We don’t want to just keep our heads above water - nope, we want to THRIVE during the madness!
This pandemic has brought about a total upheaval of day to day life, as well as business. Literally EVERYTHING has changed - we’re all staying at home, many people are working from home for the first time ever, social distancing is mandatory, and we likely haven’t seen our loved ones IRL in a long time.
Politicians are delivering daily updates that often make our heads spin. Breaking news from the WHO is now required reading. Government alerts are popping off. Our phones are blowing up with notifications of Insta Lives. It’s wild.
We’ve also seen a complete disruption of digital behaviour and the craziest thing is that it pretty much happened over night back in mid-March 2020! People are glued to their screens (phones, laptops, TVs, etc.) and we’re spending more time than ever online …. but not always in the ways that you might expect.
This situation means different things for different people, brands and businesses - and yes, that means your website and it’s traffic are going to look different from what you’re used to.
For some industries, this global pandemic has been a blessing and business is better than ever - Amazon, Netflix and Zoom are booming and stacking mad cash right now.
However, many other industries & niches have taken a major hit. A change in consumer habits has a direct impact on website traffic, organic online searches and even businesses’ bottom lines.
This is particularly true for North American or European-based websites, brands & businesses.
You might have unexpectedly found yourself in this unfortunate situation and maybe you’re freaking out that your website traffic has DROPPED and your business is suffering. If you have, that sucks and I’m truly sorry…. but rest assured that it’s not all doom and gloom! I’m here to help you out as best as I can and reassure you that it won’t be this way forever.
In this blog post, we’re going to go over what to do if your website’s traffic has dropped or taken a hit because of COVID-19.
Whether you’re an independent content creator/blogger, a small business or brand, or a bigger company, I want you to take a step back and look at this drop in traffic & business with clear eyes and your head on straight.
After you’ve read this post, I want you to feel like you have a plan and actionable steps that you can follow to improve your situation, and hopefully boost your website traffic and set your business up for future success.