Meridian Tutorials
How-to videos ☻
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Add your branding
0:00 ⏤ ✿
The basics of swapping in your fonts, colours, logo and some quick but important CSS notes.
Style guide page
10:29⏤ ✿
Your template comes with a style guide, which makes it easy to see your elements at a glance.
Creating new pages
13:01 ⏤ ✿
Your template page is what you’ll duplicate to make all extra pages on your site. Watch how to use it.
Links & Nav
16:28 ⏤ ✿
Your template utilises HTML anchor links to navigate to different parts of the page from the menu.
The Footer
21:56 ⏤ ✿
A quickie to understand the different elements inside your footer, including the newsletter widget.
Configuring Forms
24:07 ⏤ ✿
A simple but important fix that all Squarespace sites need - making sure your emails go somewhere!
About Page
25:58 ⏤ ✿
Your about page utilises a cool Portfolio layout Squarespace has. It’s pretty straightforward, promise.
Blog Page
29:07 ⏤ ✿
Your blog page has standard functionality, no surprises. Utilise some post templates I’ve made.
Vertical Text
30:37 ⏤ ✿
Your sidetext feature is easy to update, but it’s hiding in the Code Injections area…
Page Sections: Welcome
33:25 ⏤ ✿
A fancy, coded section for your homepage only, here’s how to understand it a little better.
Page Sections: Animated Text
35:04 ⏤ ✿
A quick instructional on updating the content in the animated text code block section.
Page Sections: Gallery
35:36 ⏤ ✿
You probably don’t even need a how-to for this, but here it is just in case!
Page Sections: Calendar
39:01 ⏤ ✿
If you’re offering classes or 1:1 appointments, then you’ll probably want to utilise Acuity 🔗 → or Calendly 🔗 →
Page Sections: Video Feature
40:07 ⏤ ✿
Full width video features are super appealing and exciting to your visitors, they also happen to be easy to set up. Phew!
Page Sections: FAQs
44:04 ⏤ ✿
On first glance it looks complicated using Markdown Blocks, but this is Squarespace! Everything is achievable.
