How to build a Squarespace website from scratch (2023)
I love Squarespace. Although simple, it really is a brilliant website-building platform. Learn a few basic tips and it’s remarkable just how soon you can build an impressive Squarespace website from scratch, whether you’re a musician, blogger, personal trainer, dog groomer, photographer, cake maker, beautician, accountant, builder – whatever you are.
Squarespace is super user-friendly. You don’t need to be a designer or coding expert and the content management system is simple. It’s an excellent choice if you want to sell online, because Squarespace makes e-commerce easy. It’s no wonder that a reported 3.7m people in 200 countries now have Squarespace website subscriptions.
Users can choose from a wide range of award-winning Squarespace templates, which give you readymade page designs. They’re a great starting point, which you can easily customise to your own requirements and taste, incorporating your own colours, fonts, images and page-design ideas.
Squarespace offers many great features, too. A Squarespace website can enable you to successfully manage your customer appointments, for example, if you’re a hairdresser, or sell classes, if you’re a yoga teacher, or showcase your portfolio if you’re a photographer. Whatever you do, you can share your knowledge or views via a powerful blog, which can help to attract visitors to your Squarespace website and keep them coming back.
Squarespace approved
I started creating Squarespace websites 14 years ago and for some time I’ve been an authorised Squarespace Trainer and Approved Specialist. I began offering Squarespace training to clients in 2013 and I’ve delivered Squarespace masterclass sessions for The Guardian newspaper, as well as Squarespace workshops for the Royal Photographic Society.
Each year, at Manage My Website, we build a large number of websites for businesses, organisations and people. Each one is different, which is fantastic. Getting an experienced specialist to build your Squarespace website should guarantee great results, while saving you time and effort. However, some people choose to build their own Squarespace website, whether it’s to save money or simply because doing it yourself is very enjoyable and satisfying.
To help people to build their own Squarespace website, we provide Squarespace training, whether face-to-face, online or via video tutorials, which are very popular, because you can learn at your own pace and fit it around your other commitments.
Squarespace expert tips
From starting from scratch to launching your fantastic new Squarespace website, we’ve created 12 video tutorials and they clearly explain how to negotiate such basic tasks as:
choosing a Squarespace template
preparing images for your Squarespace website
adding web pages, words, images and logos
creating an online shop or ecommerce functionality
taking payments online
maintaining a winning blog
creating events
styling your Squarespace website and
optimising your Squarespace website for search engines.
The price for all 12 Squarespace video tutorials is just £150 and for additional advice tailored to you your specific needs, once you’ve finished the video tutorial course, you can book a complimentary two-hour Q&A webinar with me, where you can learn how to make your website even more stylish, professional and search-engine friendly.
A maximum of 12 people are allowed on the Q&A webinar on a first come, first served basis. I also offer extra one-to-one Zoom tuition at £100 + VAT per hour. By that point, who knows just how great a Squarespace website you could create. Send me an email if you want more information about any of the above. Find out more about our Squarespace video tutorials here.
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Written by Manage My Website Founder and Executive Director, Allie Astell, who is a Squarespace expert and Squarespace Authorised Trainer.