Fully Design and Launch a Squarespace website

Instructor: Bob Lawson, founder of Sustainable Digital

New online software allows you to design and launch a website without any technical background. This means that with only a layman’s knowledge of computers, you can now build your own website, and a new 6-hour workshop sponsored by the BDCC’s INSTIG8 program will help.

This workshop is designed to help you design a site, craft each page, and finally turn the site live without the need for a webmaster. You will work on your own site, using your own computer, under the skilled eye of the workshop instructor. And while there is no guarantee that you can complete the site in just 6 hours, if you are willing to invest the time and energy, you will be able to launch your site soon after the workshop.

The instructor: The workshop will be presented by Bob Lawson, Founder of Sustainable Digital. Bob is an Certified Squarespace Trainer and has frequently run web design workshops in Brattleboro and Keene. In addition, he offers private tutoring for nonprofits and businesses creating their own websites.

Sustainable Digital (www.sustainabledigital.com) provides communication and technology services from its office in Putney, VT.

Here is what you’ll learn:

This workshop is structured to bring you from the very start, through all phases of designing and launching a website using the Squarespace content management system. Working on your own laptop, you will:

• Select a website template
• Customize your site design
• Build your menus and navigation
• Learn how to add and edit text and photos to each page
• Create contact and other forms
• Polish your design by selecting fonts and controlling design elements
• Purchase a domain name
• Put your site live on the web