No integration code allowed with the Squarespace Personal plan
On December 1, 2017, Squarespace changed which features are included in its lowest-cost Personal plan. Many simple customization and third-party integration features are now classified as Premium features, only available with the Business and Commerce plans.
Up until now, my small-business clients on Squarespace have been able to use the Personal plan for their sites. These were not complicated websites with a lot of moving parts or online stores, but they were able to take advantage of features like connecting their MailChimp accounts, adding some custom styles to footers, adding PayPal buttons, and adding custom code to change the look of a slideshow.
I have learned that the Markdown block can be used instead of the Code block, even on Personal plans. While I haven’t tested it to see if it would allow any integration at all with third-party products, it’s useful for adding small amounts of code.
It’s definitely something to consider when choosing between a Personal plan and an upgrade to the Business plan. I use a third-party mailing program and upgraded to the Business plan for that reason.
There are many different ways to manage registration and payments for events from your website. Squarespace has its own built-in features or you can connect to a third-party event management system.
There are four different phases in managing an event: Announcing, Registering, Collecting Payments, and Communicating. Each phase offers both easy, intermediate, and advanced ways to accomplish what you want to do. The system you choose depends on your time, your budget, and your comfort with technology.
Adding links to your website gives people a convenient way to learn more about a subject that interests them. Links can be built into text, buttons, or images. Learn more about the guidelines I go by when deciding which type of link to use.
Integrating automatic appointment scheduling with your website frees you from tedious back-and-forth conversations to set up appointments. I’ve tried and tested a number of scheduling programs and have two that I recommend to my website clients.
Squarespace assigns every new website a built-in domain, a Site ID, that ends with “squarespace.com.” I recommend changing the random ID Squarespace assigns to be something you’ll remember.
To stretch and expand the background image to the top of your website, change the site header color style to Adaptive. The site header then becomes transparent so the background image shows behind the navigation text.
The aspect ratio of an image is its width relative to its height. Understanding aspect ratio helps you design your pages with images that look attractive and well-matched. Aspect ratio choices can also help with planning and choosing images you’d like to use on your website.
As a Squarespace Circle Member, I bring lots of benefits to my clients’ projects through the supportive professional community I belong to. As my client, you also get direct benefits I pass on to you, like an extended 6-month trial period and 20% off your first annual purchase.
You can add a Social Sharing image to Squarespace to be shown as a link preview for your website when you share a URL on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. The size of 1200x628 pixels works best for those platforms. You can also set custom images for specific website pages or blog posts to draw extra attention to them.
Squarespace lets you promote your blog post automatically on your connected social media accounts through the Share settings for the post.
Squarespace and Square are two different companies. They both support online stores, so it can be confusing when you are doing research about getting your business online. Squarespace is my favorite website builder, so this blog post will explain how it’s different from the company called Square.
Have you ever wished that you could take customers back to your website automatically after they make a payment through a PayPal button on your site? It turns out it’s not only possible, but it only takes a little extra planning and web design time.
A footer is the last section of information at the bottom of a website page. Use this valuable area to show contact information, add links to website pages, and ask visitors to take action on their way to becoming loyal customers.
Use the Facebook Like Button Configurator to generate code to add a Facebook Follow button on your website.
Here are my 10 favorite text tips to help you create a modern and professional-looking website on Squarespace or any other website platform.
Images play a role in improving your website's search rankings. Using file names and image properties strategically on your Squarespace website to include possible search words is a good practice for improving the search rankings of your website.
Spacers are invisible design elements that add blank space to any part of a website page. I call them a website super power because they are incredibly useful for adding space around elements on a page.
Kerry A. Thompson
You don’t need a big agency to get your website done. You just need the one right person. I offer Squarespace website design and content development services for creatives, coaches, and healers. Learn more in a free 30-minute consultation.