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.

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Being able to preview your website live without logging out of Squarespace is a convenience for testing and proofreading before you launch.

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.

If you only sell a few gift certificates per year, adding a page with a PayPal Buy Now button for purchasing can be a low-cost way to add gift certificate sales to your website.

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.

Use the Button Tool with a free PayPal business account to generate code that creates a custom Buy Now button for your website.

Taking the time to add a note to your invitation to connect to someone on LinkedIn improves the chances of the invitation being accepted. Adding information about how you know the person or mutual connections you have builds trust.

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.

One of the first decisions you'll make with a new website is the choice of typefaces, especially those used as display accents throughout your site, such as the Site Title and Headings. Your website probably includes typefaces that suit the design template you chose, but if you would prefer another typeface, there are many to choose from.

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.