Training Tutorials for your website success

Training tutorials

Squarespace has great help which you can access via your panel when logged in or you can go here. You can search by topic, read their guides or contact support (email or chat).

There are some general tutorials in the section below.

An important note about uploading photos to your website

All images that are uploaded to a website should be optimized for website viewing. This helps with your website load time. If you upload full size images your site speed will be greatly compromised and Google will penalize you in search results.

Please read this blog post for information about compressing your photos: https://www.jodineufelddesign.com/blog/how-to-get-your-website-to-load-quicker

Videos specific to your Site

All your training videos can be found here:

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Introduction to Squarespace

How to edit any web page on your site

Editing the home page

Updating the Guest Hosts on the home page (IMP: “code injection” is now located: Website -> Website Tools (at very bottom) -> Code injection
note: I mention in the video how you can alter the code to make the secondary guest hosts appear, but you can also just click on the View more button when in edit mode and they appear)

Adding News items
Adding titles to News items

Editing the Our Supporters page

Editing the About page

Editing the Our Impact page and Adding grey borders to images in a Fluid Engine section and Reordering Reports for Mobile

Editing the Connect page

Editing the Donate page

Adding Virtual Events

Adding icons to your site

Creating new Resources page section graphics (template)

Creating new Resources page sections

Here is the link to the Google icons site

copy the icon keyword and then highlight it and link to #googleicons

For changes March 2024 (Study Updates):

Launching the new pages and sections

Linking items on the Research page and adding another year

Editing the new page with the sidebar and adding more board stories

Steps to take to launch your new site

Please follow these checklists to launch your new site. These checklist are in Notion. You can create a free account and duplicate them if you would like to have copy that you check off.

Steps for Launching

SEO Checklist

General Squarespace Help

Create pages to build your site, then organize your pages in a navigation menu to help visitors explore. There a few types of pages:

Layout Pages create custom layouts of text and other content.
Collections serve specific purposes and have designs that vary between templates.
Pages, folders, and navigation links are more options for organizing your content.

The Pages panel is where you build your site's structure and navigation with pages.

Watch this Pages video tutorial from our Getting Started Series.

Pages and blocks

Layout Pages support blocks, letting you arrange images, videos, text, maps, and more in a customized layout.

Build a page by adding a new page to your navigation menu.
Add a block to begin adding content to your page or blog post. Blocks are the foundation of your site.
Move, resize, and delete blocks to lay out content in columns and rows.
Blocks let you add text, images, video, galleries, audio, and more to your site.
Editing the Resources Page
Editing the Resources Blog

Collections

Collection pages support specific purposes, such as displaying upcoming events or showcasing a gallery of images. Collections are available in all templates, and their designs and features vary.

Learn about collections.
Gallery Pages display galleries of images and videos.
Create and manage an online store using a Store Page.
Create a blog with a Blog Page.
Events Pages display events as a calendar or list.
Add a playlist of audio files with an Album Page.

To visit the official getting started guide, click the link here: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206795137