Squarespace Basics

Getting Started With Squarespace

Squarespace Pages

  • Getting to the website editing section

  • Main navigation pages vs not linked pages

  • Editing pages, sections and blocks

  • Editing text, and sticking to the text styles that were preset.

  • Duplicating and saving sections (as a backup for editing)

  • Do not upgrade sections that are in the old editor

  • Updating image blocks

  • Toggling between mobile & desktop views to edit accordingly

  • Saving your work

  • Accessing the page settings

  • How to keep your pages organized with folders

  • Main navigation pages vs not linked pages

  • Enabling/disabling pages

  • Customizing the url of each page

  • Creating backup pages (duplicating pages)

  • Editing SEO descriptions and hiding specific pages from search results (ex. events page, parents corner)

  • Changing the social sharing image

  • Adding a password to a page (ex. Parent’s Corner)

Editing & Updating Blocks + Sections

Updating Staff Members (Content Sections)

  • What is a content section

  • Adding new staff members and editing their names/descriptions

  • Staying consistent with the cropping and lighting

  • Centering the images

Updating FAQs (Accordion Blocks) & Core Beliefs (Content Sections)

  • What are accordion blocks

  • Making sure the two FAQs columns are balanced

  • Adding, editing and rearranging faqs

  • Editing core beliefs content section

Form Blocks

  • Regular forms (like the contact form on the home page) and lightbox forms (like the ones on the admissions page

  • Changing and editing form fields and types of form fields

  • What happens after someone submits a form— Post submit message and redirecting to another page.

  • Form storage - email notification, google drive (DO NOT TOUCH THE SPREADSHEET), and MailChimp/Flodesk syncing.

  • Creating a page with a form on it (an alternative to Google Forms)

  • Testing out the form to make sure everything is storing correctly

Blogs & Summary Blocks

Adding Newsletter Blog Posts

Updating Testimonials/Summary Blocks

  • Where to find your newsletter

  • Using the newsletter template (duplicate, edit, publish)

  • Editing and adding highlights and happenings photos

  • Blog post settings, blog summary and featured photo

  • Blog categories (parenting tips vs highlights newsletter)

  • Publishing / scheduling your post

  • What are summary blocks

  • Adding & editing testimonials

  • Changing the order of how the testimonials show up

Events & Gallery Pages

Updating Events

Updating Gallery

  • Making sure you always have at least 3 upcoming events set up on the backend

  • Events pages

  • Call to action for each event (form lightbox button), google appointments integration, or no call to action

  • Event settings (date, time, start time/end time, status)

  • Event excerpt - and how to make sure the button is added to the summary block

  • Custom event url and image

  • Sections on the gallery page

  • Editing existing albums on the page (deleting photos, rearranging, adding new photos)

  • Adding a new album/section (duplicate an existing title section and gallery section, shuffle to the right place, and replace old text + photos with new)

Other

Weekly Sign Ups

  • Using the Busy Bees as a template

  • Replacing content and embed codes from the Google Forms

  • Updating the page url

  • Connecting the new page to the main weekly sign ups page