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How to optimise images for your Squarespace website
Before you add any images to your website, there's a little bit of prep work you need to do to make sure your images are optimised for your website.
5 FREE CSS code snippets for your Squarespace website
Looking to up level your Squarespace website design with a little custom CSS? Check out my 5 favourite FREE CSS code plugins that will help transform your website.
5 Newsletter Freebies You Can Use As An Author
Knowing exactly what to offer to entice your readers to sign up for your email list can be a daunting task. Here are 5 newsletter freebies you can choose from to use in your own author business.
Your Author Website: How To Add A Drop Down Menu
Should you use a drop down menu on your author website? What are the pros and cons in squarespace? Find out what you need to know to be able to use a drop down menu strategically for your author website.
4 Ways For Authors To Use The Accordion Block
4 ways in which authors can use the accordion block on their websites.
Your Author Website: What Pages Do You Need?
Your author website is comprised of multiple pages. However, most authors don't know exactly what they need to have on their website.
That's why I decided to create this guide. It walks you through the most popular pages that an author website needs plus what should go on each page.
How To Organise Your Website's Navigation Menu As An Author
As an author you need to lay out your website as if your website visitors have never heard of you and are learning about you for the first time through your website.
Your website’s main navigation should guide a viewer through the website - you should be leading them to the content you want them to read + the most popular things that readers want to see.
How To Add A Favicon To Your Squarespace Website
What is a favicon and why is it important in your website design? This post tell you not only why you need one but how to create a simple favicon and how to add it to your Squarespace website.
The 5 Pages You Need On Your Author Website
Thinking about building your own author website? Find out what the 5 must have pages on your author website are.
5 Ways For Authors To Use The Announcement Bar
Need a way to draw extra attention to something on your website? Or one of your books?
Squarespace has you covered with a built-in feature called the ‘Announcement Bar’ that is perfect for this.
Here are 5 ways that you as an author can use the announcement bar…
Author Website Design Basics: What You Need To Know
In this fast paced world where you only have under 15 seconds to gain a website visitors attention before they click away let's make sure that a poorly designed website isn't the reason they're leaving.
So, how can we make sure our website is the best it can be?…
Why Squarespace Is The Best Website Platform For Authors
With a variety of choice comes a lot of confusion surrounding which one is best for you and what the differences are between them all. With the top choices usually recommended as Wordpress or Squarespace.
Here are 5 reasons why Squarespace is the best choice for authors…
6 Squarespace Hacks You Should Know
Squarespace is known for its ease of use and being friendly to the less technically savvy. And that's true - for the most part.
But there are some instances where the answer or how to do a specific 'something' aren't immediately obvious. So I thought I would show you 6 little hacks I always use when I'm designing website templates or working on my own website in Squarespace.
3 Ways To Use The Spacer Block In Squarespace
When you're designing a Squarespace website sometimes it's the little tricks that can make building it that much quicker and easier. So I thought I would share with you 3 of my favourite little tricks and tips about using the spacer block to help you.
Now I wouldn't call any of these tricks 'life changing' BUT they can make an immense amount of difference when you're constructing or redoing your website.
They can save you time and save your sanity so you don't want to pull your hair out because you just want it to do this 'one thing' and you can’t seem to make it happen.
6 Reasons Why Squarespace is the Best Choice For Photographers
You started your business because you wanted to be a photographer. Then you realised you needed a website and you went down the rabbit hole of research, too many options and despair.
And because you have too many options, figuring out what platform to use for your website has probably fallen to last place on your to do list. But I'm here to kick that bad boy back up to first place because I have 6 Reasons Why Squarespace is the Best Choice For Your Photography Website.
Why I Chose Squarespace For My Photography Business
When building your website for your photography business there are a lot of different platform options for building and hosting your site. So many that it can be overwhelming just trying to figure out which one you should go with. That’s why in this post I explain to you exactly why I choose Squarespace for my photography business’s website.