The Learning Lab
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An Intro to Squarespace 7.1
This is an ever growing and evolving collection of lessons and tutorials to empower you while customizing your website. You can follow the course start to finish or watch lessons individually based on where you need more support.
(P.S. I won’t be offended if you 2x the video speed!)
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Intro to Your Template
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Making This Template Yours
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Creating a Squarespace Account
If you don’t have a Squarespace account, we’ll walk through how you can creating one for free in just a few minutes.
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Accessing Your Template & Dashboard
Learn how to access your Squarespace template and dashboard, including how to accept access to your template, navigate your home hub, and start customizing your website using the tools available after template activation.
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Your Website Sidebar & Settings
An overview of the Squarespace sidebar and settings panel, explaining where to manage pages, design styles, SEO tools, products, memberships, analytics, and site settings so you can confidently navigate and control your website backend.
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Header & Navigation
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Editing Your Header & Navigation
Learn how to edit your header and navigation in Squarespace 7.1, including updating your site logo, adjusting menu links, adding a button and social links and enabling bilingual viewing.
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Styling Your Site Header
Learn how to adjust spacing, colors, fixed and scroll-back header options, logo display, and navigation styling to create a clear, well-structured site header.
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Styling Your Mobile Header
Learn mobile-specific header settings, including layout options, logo sizing, navigation menus, colors, fonts, and hamburger icons.
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Website Pages
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Adding, Deleting & Organizing Pages
How to create and organizing pages in Squarespace, including using the Pages panel to add, reorder, hide, duplicate, and group pages into navigation menus for a clear, well-structured website.
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Understanding Page Settings
An overview of Squarespace page settings, covering page titles, URL slugs, visibility options, SEO metadata, social sharing settings, and page-specific controls so you can fine-tune how each page appears and functions on your website.
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Styling Your Template
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Site Styles Intro
Learn where to find all your main design controls in Squarespace and how Site Styles helps you create a consistent, on-brand look across your entire website.
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Using Your Style Guide
Your Style Guide is a live preview page where you can safely test fonts, colors, and buttons before applying them site-wide. You’ll learn how to use it to perfect your branding and save time.
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Changing Fonts
Your fonts define your website’s personality and start to make it your own. You’ll learn how to adjust headings, paragraphs, and site fonts to keep everything clear and consistent.
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Adding Custom Fonts
If you have custom fonts you’d like to add to your Squarespace site, this lesson walks through how to upload your font files and apply them to your Site Styles with easy copy and paste code.
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Changing Colors
Learn how to set a custom color palette on your website, how color themes work and how to apply and customize them throughout your template.
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Changing Button Styles
Buttons are your primary call to action throughout your site. Here, you’ll learn how to adjust their shape, style, and text to match your brand and make your CTAs stand out.
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Styling Contact Forms
Your contact form is often the last stop before someone reaches out. This lesson walks you through how to style it your forms fonts, spacing, and colors to match your branding.
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Using Sections
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Editing Page Sections
A detailed walkthrough of how you can edit page sections in Squarespace, including adjusting section height, adding dividers, creating anchor links, and using images, videos, or artwork as section backgrounds for flexible, visually structured layouts.
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Adding & Deleting Sections
Learn how to add and delete sections in Squarespace to structure your pages.
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Saving & Using Saved Sections
Learn how to save and reuse your sections so you can quickly build new pages and maintain design consistency across your website.
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Changing Section Colors
Learn how to change the color theme for any section in in Squarespace to customize the look of your pages.
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Editing Your Template
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Using Your Asset Library
The Squarespace Asset Library is quick way to manage and upload your site assets. Learn how to upload, organize, and reuse images and files across your site to streamline your content management and maintain visual consistency.
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Using the Grid
Understand the Squarespace grid system, how to place and align content blocks, manage spacing, and create clean, responsive page layouts using the built-in grid tools.
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Into to Blocks
An introduction to using drag-and-drop blocks in Squarespace, covering how to add, move, and arrange content blocks within the grid to build flexible, visually balanced page layouts.
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Using & Editing Blocks
Learn to use and edit blocks in Squarespace, including adding, moving, resizing, duplicating, and aligning content blocks within the grid.
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Editing Text
Learn how to edit text blocks in Squarespace and understand formatting options, headings, alignment, links, and text styling to easily style and edit your website copy.
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Editing Images
A walkthrough of image blocks in Squarespace, including uploading and changing images, adjusting focal points and alignment, and adding image effects.
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Button Blocks
Learn how to use button blocks to create clear calls to action, including adding new buttons, linking them to pages or URLs, and styling size, color, and alignment for effective site navigation.
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Using Pinned Blocks
Learn how to use pinned blocks in Squarespace to keep important content visible as visitors scroll, enhance user experience, and highlight key messages or calls to action throughout your pages.
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Contact Forms
Learn how to customize your contact forms in Squarespace, including how to add a form block, customize fields and connect form submissions to storage or integrations.
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Optimizing for Mobile
Learn how to update and managing course content in Squarespace, including editing lessons, reordering modules and updating text and media.
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Adding Text Links
A guide to adding text links in Squarespace, including linking to pages, external websites, email addresses, files, and page sections so visitors can easily navigate your content.
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Adding Social Links
How to add social links in Squarespace, including connecting social profiles, managing social icon display, and placing social links in your header, footer, and across your pages.
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Connecting Your Instagram
Learn how to add an Instagram live feed on your website, and manage any connected Instagram account settings.
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Member Sites & Course Sections
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Using Member Sites
Introduce your lesson with an optional, short summary. You can edit this excerpt in lesson settings.
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Intro to Squarespace Courses
Learn how courses work in Squarespace, including how to customize your course homepage.
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Editing Course Content
Learn how to update and managing course content in Squarespace, including editing lessons, reordering modules and updating text and media.
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Adding Course & Membership Paywalls
Understand how to add and manage course and membership paywalls in Squarespace so you can monetize your content or digital products.
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Setting Up Payment Methods
Payment methods make it possible for you to accept payments on a Squarespace site. This lesson covers different method like Squarespace Payments, Stripe, PayPal, and how to set them up for selling products, services, courses, and memberships.
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Blogging
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Blogging with Squarespace
Blogging is a great form of inbound marketing and opportunity to offer valuable content for your site visitors. You’ll learn how to blog with Squarespace, including creating and editing blog posts, managing blog settings and using categories and tags.
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Scheduling & Publishing Blog Posts
Learn how to schedule and publish your blog posts in Squarespace, including setting publish dates, managing drafts, and controlling when your content goes live.
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Launching Your Site
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Choosing a Squarespace Plan
We’ll walk through the different Squarespace pricing plans and features to help you decide which subscription is right for your website. Understand what each plan includes, how features like custom code, ecommerce capabilities, and support vary, and which plan fits your goals.
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Connecting Your Domain
Learn how domains work, including how to purchase a domain in Squarespace, connect an existing Squarespace domain, or link a third-party domain so your website has a proper, searchable web address.
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Sending Your Site Live
You’re ready to publish your website. Congratulations! This lesson walks you through how to change your site availability and publishing your site so everyone can find it online.
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Helpful Guides
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Search Engine Optimizing Your Site
Simple strategies to improve your website’s visibility in search engines, including practical on-page SEO tips, keyword optimization, meta tags, and content best practices designed to help your site rank higher and reach the right audience.
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Finding High-End Images for Your Website
Helpful tips for sourcing and using high-quality images on your website, including curated free and premium image libraries, ways to maintain cohesive visual style, and guidance on selecting professional images that elevate your brand’s look and feel.
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Go to the Resource Hub
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Go to the Resource Hub ꩜
01 / Squarespace livechat
Squarespace Live Chat
Chat live with an Squarespace agent to resolve any issues you’re running into without having to wait.
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02 / SQuarespace HelpSquarespace Help Center
If you’d like more tutorials, The Squarespace Help Center has detailed guides for just about everything.
Browse their tutorial library:
03 / access guidesGuides & Resources
Access all of the guides and resources included with your template, from copy and SEO to images and launch prep.
Customer Support:
If you’re having any issues with your template or need assistance I’m here to help you out!
Your template purchase includes 30 days of complimentary support, starting from the day your template is transferred to your Squarespace account.
You can contact me via this form or messaging me on Esty ❤︎
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Guidance on how to editing text, images, and content.
Questions about how this template is set up.
Troubleshooting issues directly related to the template itself.
Questions about using Squarespace’s built-in editing tools.
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Visual brand customization such as fonts, colors, or styling changes.
Custom development or advanced design changes.
Custom CSS or JavaScript unless specified on your template.
Plugins, third-party extensions, or external integrations.