After reading an article about self-employment time management, I started keeping a log of how I was spending my time on marketing and educational activities related to my website design business. Now I am much more deliberate about how I spend my time online and I've narrowed down my business-related social media focus to a few platforms.

Find beautiful free photos that convey the perfect tone and message for your Squarespace website.

While most people add and update a copyright statement on their Squarespace websites, here’s a trick to add a Code Block or Markdown block with custom HTML so the date automatically changes with each new year.

A circle adds a different design shape to your website, which can be a refreshing change from the usual square and rectangle images. Squarespace makes it easy to crop your square image into a circle (and a lot of other shapes). No coding needed.

As a rule, you should use images that use the .jpg format on your website. However, if you need the special effect of a background color or image showing through an image placed on top, you’ll need to use a transparent image saved in .png format.

If you find yourself agonizing about getting all the details right before launching your new or updated website, remember that the delay means your website isn't working to promote your business. It's time to shake off that fear and think of your website as something that can be changed, added to, and improved over time.

Placing images exactly where you want them on website pages and blog posts can be tricky and frustrating. In this blog post, you'll learn how to place images exactly where you want them in Squarespace. Image placement applies when your website is seen on a computer. On a cell phone, photos are stacked above or below your text.

Keep the text on your website looking professional and easy to read by avoiding these text mistakes.

Need to take a break from your business? Use these best practices to maintain your business presence with your Squarespace website while announcing that you and your business are pausing temporarily.

Need to create short lines of text with tighter line spacing between them? There’s one simple trick that you can use on your keyboard to force website text to the next line without creating a new paragraph.

One of the first pages you create for your website is the About page. It helps customers put a face and a story to the person behind the website. You don't need to be intimidated by the prospect of what to write. Think of it as a reply to "What do you do?" when someone asks you that question at a party. 

Follow these three rules when choosing and preparing your website images to have a professional-looking website.

When you get started with Squarespace, you are faced with a design decision before you even provide a domain name or a credit card number. As I browsed through many templates in doing work for clients, I started to realize that there was one design decision about the banner image that narrows down template choices right away.

If you add text to your website by copying text from other sources, such as email, word-processing documents, online articles, and social media, it's important to convert the text to plain text before pasting it into your website. Squarespace provides a convenient way to convert copied text to plain text directly from the website editor.

The personality of a website comes across with the choice of three design elements: images, colors, and typefaces. In this blog post, you’ll see examples of how the choices of images, colors, and typefaces help define the website personalities their owners wanted to express.

We all make mistakes while we’re typing text on our websites—in sentences, headings, and form fields. There are a few keyboard shortcuts that are handy to know about to remove text quickly. These shortcuts also work for correcting text in social media posts, documents, emails, and other online communications.