These are dry times. Summer slips away faster than you can catch it – a dime down the drain. The sky hangs damp and icy today. Across the globe, powerful little men toy with the world’s future like it’s a game of chicken. Hurricanes have ravaged large parts of our earth. Families will suffer the effects for years to come. Terrorists won’t let London sleep.
This planet can get so ugly. So broken. So disordered. So many of our mirrors are shattered.
There is order in beauty. A divine order, I believe, but whatever your theology you can feel it. The affirmation of disparate parts falling into place.
Jennifer Berkenbosch’s Cultivar matters because the world needs beauty today. We need to be reminded that there is goodness. There is a solid bed beneath this wild river.
Maybe you’re like me. You know what eCommerce is, but you don’t understand enough about how it works. You do know enough to know what can go wrong. Credit card data and privacy concerns. Complicated systems trying to play nice together. Expensive fees. You see why I worry?
Worried. Past tense. Squarespace has made it possible for me to embrace eCommerce and sleep at night. That’s remarkable.
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Marketing your blog is one thing. There are so many different avenues to try, and to be honest, I haven’t tried a lot of them. I’ve just started reposting my blog posts to Medium. I’ve bought some Facebook ads. But all of that comes later. After you make your blog marketable.
There are some basic things you can do while you write your post to give it a chance of being read, and discovered.
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Over the past couple of months we’ve been building some great websites together. We’ve set up a structure, chosen a theme and started redecorating. But the rooms are empty. Remember, your website is all about one thing – your content.
Today we are going to fill in a lot of the blanks we have created for ourselves so far. We are going to add content to that fancy new website of yours.
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Today is going to be fun! You get to make some sweeping changes to the look and feel of your new website.
I’ll cover some basic design principles that will apply to everyone building a site, no matter the platform. I’ll also go over how to make specific changes to your site’s template through the Squarespace admin panel.
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Today we’re going to get you hooked up. Or, more to the point, we’re going to get your website hooked up with your social media accounts.
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The homepage on your website will give visitors your Most Important Thing. That will be the first thing they see. Exactly what you hope will be the first thing they see. We’ll make it so, by design.
So with that Most Important Thing firmly in mind, let’s get our hands dirty, back in our website building tool of choice, Squarespace.
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oday we are going to start building the frame of your new art website. We are going to create your basic pages. By the time you are done this post, you will have made the 5, 6 or 7 most important pages on your website. Or at least, you’ll have framed out those pages. You’ll also have your site’s menu built. Really!
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Welcome to the fifth installment of Website Wednesdays. Today we are walking our website straight into the Template of Doom.
Choosing your website Template is our next step, and one of the first steps to really getting started. As a first step, it can be pretty daunting. But it doesn’t need to be.
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For a month now we’ve been talking about building a better website for your art. If you’ve been following along, you now know why you want that website. You know exactly what it is for and how it will be used. You know the Most Important Thing people will do when they get there. And you know most of the other things(5 to 7 other things) they’ll do, too.
Well congratulations, hero. You’ve made it to the moment you’ve been waiting for. The moment when we actually start building your brand-spankin’-new art website. The moment you start to see results take shape. You are ready to go online.
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