From the course: Build an Ecommerce Site in 30 Minutes with Shopify, WooCommerce, Squarespace, and Wix

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Customize a template for your design

Customize a template for your design

If you have an older Squarespace site, that would be 7.0 or earlier, you can switch templates. But with Squarespace 7.1, which is what we created in this course, you can't switch templates, you can only customize the template. So you really need to know how to customize your template, because you probably want to change it as your store launches and grows. The easiest way to edit your site is to go to the site config, that's what we're on right now, and then click "Edit". This will open your site in full-screen. And as you hover over elements, you can customize them. So I can hover over the site header and you'll see edit site header. I'll go ahead and click that. And now we have options just for the header. Squarespace does a good job showing me things I typically want to customize in the header, like where the logo is located, adding social links, adding a getting starting button, et cetera. Let's start with something that every site needs to do. Let's upload a logo. I'll click on…

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