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The Definitive Guide to Squarespace

Learn to Deliver Custom, Professional Web Experiences for Yourself and Your Clients

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Authors:
  1. Sarah Martin

    1. Humble, USA

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  • Most up-to-date Squarespace book in the market to definitively cover every aspect of Squarespace development

  • Written by Sarah Martin - the first ever Squarespace Circle Forum Community Expert

  • Teaches the principles of working with Squarespace’s tools and how to do advanced customizations not covered in any documentation

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction to Squarespace

    • Sarah Martin
    Pages 1-26

  3. Getting Started on Your Site

    • Sarah Martin
    Pages 27-54

  4. Styling Your Site

    • Sarah Martin
    Pages 55-81

  5. Site Settings and Best Practices

    • Sarah Martin
    Pages 83-123

  6. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

    • Sarah Martin
    Pages 125-146

  7. Code Injectors—Add Custom Code

    • Sarah Martin
    Pages 147-164

  8. AJAX and AJAX Enabled Templates

    • Sarah Martin
    Pages 165-184

  9. Popular Customizations

    • Sarah Martin
    Pages 185-211

  10. Respecting the Limits

    • Sarah Martin
    Pages 213-225

  11. Third-Party Tools

    • Sarah Martin
    Pages 227-240

  12. Developer Mode

    • Sarah Martin
    Pages 241-265

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 267-270
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About this book

Utilize the power of Squarespace to create custom professional websites. Learn the principles and tools used by Squarespace’s most successful web professionals to take your skills to the next level.

Beginning with an overview of the Squarespace interface and template selection guidelines,  this book shows you how the key web languages work together within Squarespace. You'll also see how to use the Custom CSS Editor, Code Injections, and Code Blocks to customize Squarespace templates and how the Style Editor selections affect the template's structure.  

Learn the accommodations that must be made in JavaScript for the customizations to work correctly in AJAX-based templates. Finally, discover what Developer Mode is, how to use it, and when to use it. The Definitive Guide to Squarespace is the only book you need to get up and running with Squarespace web development.

What You'll Learn

Choose the right selectors for your CSS or JavaScript customization. 

Understand what AJAX is and how it impacts the templates that use it. 

Explore the structure of Squarespace templates

Who This Book Is For

Web designers, developers, digital marketers, and advanced personal-use users

Authors and Affiliations

  • Humble, USA

    Sarah Martin

About the author

Sarah Martin is a creative entrepreneur with over a decade of digital marketing experience. After working at an in-house creative agency for a Washington, D.C. area non-profit, she launched her own company, River Stone Digital.   Sarah integrates marketing strategy, tech requirements, and compelling design into highly effective websites. Squarespace quickly became one of Sarah’s favorite web platforms for its flexibility, user-friendly interface, and cost effectiveness. Sarah holds the titles of Community Expert and Community Leader in the Squarespace Circle Forum, an online community for Squarespace’s professionals.In her free time she enjoys reading and running. Sarah recently completed her first half-marathon and is training for another.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Definitive Guide to Squarespace

  • Book Subtitle: Learn to Deliver Custom, Professional Web Experiences for Yourself and Your Clients

  • Authors: Sarah Martin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2937-8

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books

  • Copyright Information: Sarah Martin 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-2936-1Published: 15 November 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-2937-8Published: 13 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 270

  • Number of Illustrations: 125 b/w illustrations, 124 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Web Development

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