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How to Start a Web Design Business With No Experience
Pick one platform, build three real sites for real businesses, launch a niche portfolio, price fixed fees, add systems. The six-month path, what to charge at each stage, and what to skip.
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How to Change Website URL on Squarespace Without Breaking Links
Page slugs, the built-in address and the custom domain are three different changes. How to do each, the URL Mapping that keeps old links alive, and the rules for slugs that help SEO.
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How Do You Add a Squarespace Gradient Background?
One line of CSS per section, seven gradient types, gradients over background images, whole-site and button versions, the image method for no-code, and keeping text readable on mobile.
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How to Add Hover Text Over an Image in Squarespace (3 Ways)
The built-in caption overlay, gallery and portfolio hover captions, the CSS method for any image in Fluid Engine, a reusable hover-card pattern, and why phones need a fallback.
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Moving From WordPress to Squarespace Without Losing Rankings
Whether to move, what imports and what does not, the twelve-step sequence with the redirect step most guides skip, what breaks, and how long it takes.
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The Best Squarespace Fonts and Pairings, by Business Type
Nine pairings by business type with the sizes that make them work, what makes a font good on Squarespace specifically, the fonts that look great in the picker and fail on the page.
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