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If you don't have a Squarespace account, you will need sign up - please make sure you use the email you included when you purchased the template.

https://login.squarespace.com/ - top left corner - Create an account. Fill in your details.

Once you have created your account, within 24-48 hours, you will be able to access the template that you purchased. In order to get the 20% discount, you will need to sign up for an annual plan.

If you already have a Squarespace account and an existing template, you will have 1 in your dashboard as well as the new template.

Pexels

Unsplash

Pixabay

Labelling images -

• It's important to label your images correctly. by following SEO best practice - i.e. use keywords as an example.

• Please follow this guidance for alt image

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206542357-Adding-alt-text-to-images

Sizes & Dimensions -

Images should not be more than 250KB

Squarespace recommends the width of your images to be between 1500 and 2500 pixels. Images smaller than 1500 pixels can look blurry or pixelated when they're scratched to fill the image block.

Once you have completed everything, go through this handy checklist to make sure you have completed everything. This is a really important step in the launching of your site:

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002090267-SEO-checklist

Don’t forget to do this step … you need to do this in order for Google to find your site

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205813918

I would always recommend using a professional email - whichever platform you decide - either Outlook / Google Workspace. Never use @gmail or @hotmail.

Squarespace has guides on what to do. When you sign up for an annual plan, you get 1 year free google workspace access

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/categories/360000163388

Use this helpful list to make sure you have done everything!

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022518252-Site-launch-checklist