Deep dive into Squarespace 7.1, exploring its new business-boosting features and why you should upgrade in 2023 to improve your SEO.

Comprehensive Guide to Squarespace 7.1

https://justinmabee.com/blog/2024-squarespace-7-1-guide

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Welcome to Particle News

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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/posts-by-read-cv/id1658640729

Justin Mabee is a top-rated, professional Squarespace web designer and expert with 12 years of experience and 500+ projects completed. Available for hire now.

Squarespace Web Designer and Expert  |  Justin Mabee

Keep your eyes peeled during the Big Game to see what Martin Scorsese has been working on with his daughter, Francesca.   Visit https://www.squarespace.com/hello-down-there to learn more. — Start your free website trial: https://www.squarespace.com Read our latest blog post: https://www.squarespace.com/blog Chat with our community: https://forum.squarespace.com — Connect with us: ➤ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@squarespace ➤ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/squarespace ➤ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/squarespace ➤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/squarespace ➤ Twitter: https://twitter.com/squarespace ➤ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/squarespace   👋 About Squarespace Squarespace empowers millions of dreamers, makers, and doers by providing them with the tools they need to bring their creative ideas to life. On Squarespace’s dynamic all-in-one platforms, customers can claim a domain, build a website, sell online, and market a brand. Our suite of products combines cutting-edge design and world-class engineering, making it easier than ever to establish and own your online presence.  #Squarespace #martinscorsese

Marty & Francesca Make a Website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_33RvpEK-E

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Hi, I'm Justin Mabee. I'm a veteran Squarespace designer with over 12 years of experience building websites and helping people learn how to run their businesses with Squarespace.  I want to give you the tools to build your very own Squarespace website and take it to the next level!  📱 Want to hire me to build your Squarespace website? Book a call here: https://calendar.app.google/nA8D67m7Xgt7fCsAA  👨‍💻 Want 30% off your first year's Squarespace subscription? Contact me here: https://justinmabee.com/book-now  💻 Read my Squarespace blog: https://justinmabee.com/blog  🧠 Check out my Squarespace portfolio: https://justinmabee.com/portfolio  🗞 Is it time for you to update to Squarespace 7.1? Check out my Comprehensive Guide: https://justinmabee.com/blog/2024-squarespace-7-1-guide  📹 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSj5z-L27SMX_vBy0kvQkzg  📩 Email me: info@justinmabee.com   Disclaimer  The term "Squarespace" is a trademark of Squarespace, Inc. This channel is not affiliated with Squarespace, Inc.

Adjusting Mobile and Saving Sections for Quicker Building in Squarespace 7.1

https://youtu.be/a1K51UnqmRA?feature=shared

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Explore the effects of Permira's $7B acquisition of Squarespace on users, service changes, and future pricing, from a Squarespace Expert.

What Does Squarespace Going Private Mean for You? A Squarespace Expert Weighs In.

https://justinmabee.com/blog/squarespace-acquisition-permira-impact

Register now for Ask Us Anything - Justin Mabee & Christy Price on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on March 25, 2024, 09:00 AM CDT.

Ask Us Anything - Justin Mabee & Christy Price

Started playing with other AI models over the last couple of days thanks to Raycast and Poe, and so far my favorites are Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Opus, all of Mistrals models, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and of course Perplexity’s own model. GPT4 Turbo isn’t bad either.

Started a design, got 2/3 through and hated it. Duplicated it and changed the nav and a few other elements, along with moving from a bold heading to a serif heading, and now I like it, but it's still not quite there....

Check out our recent blog post on how to make the most of Squarespace 7.1.

👉 Read the article: https://justinmabee.com/blog/2024-squarespace-7-1-guide
👉 View the portfolio: https://justinmabee.com/portfolio
👉 Get in touch: info@justinmabee.com

Client's inspo was really cool and I wanted to recreate the old school magazine style on the web, but give it a bit of a modern vibe too.

Gotta admit, Meta's Llama 3 rivals Claude 3 Opus and its speed is even more impressive.

Design concept for a client from yesterday. Inspo was vintage, graffiti, bubble style, minimalistic. This is the landing page, and we stripped it back even further to just have Home, Work, and project pages. Created the logo too.

Testing out Particle.news now that I got an invite finally, and it’s worth the hype and wait. It’s 2024 and my main news apps are Particle and Yahoo News. Who would have thought?

Portfolios are the bane of my existence. 

Getting a website to look nice on a website is just so hard. Strongly considering just putting like 4 case studies and being done.

Traffic on my website has increased significantly over the past few weeks, but my bookings have stagnated. 

Decided to try an A/B test of removing all questions from my booking link, and adding a generic contact form as well; 24 hours later, a new booking and a form fill. 😳😩

Had a client reach out today freaking out that their website wasn’t working and they were running ads to it. 
2 hours and 5 developers later…

Free API call limit was reached. $20 later, no problem. 🤣

A legit email I got from a former client today to my business email.

What is the point of having the check box there if you can't bypass it? 🙄

What’s the consensus on sketched or illustrated profile pics? I work with a lot of small businesses and it feels like a real headshot is necessary.

Any photographers near Boston or Providence? I’m in desperate need of new headshots.

Built an all new identity and website for Mind Body Ecology Institute after their previous designer just...stopped building websites. Really happy with how it turned out.

Next step: creating my first Framer website.

When you're applying for jobs, how do you tackle "why do you want to work here", "what excites you about this job", "why should we be excited to have you on our team" type of questions? This always trips me up, and I'm always lost trying to answer these questions.

If you haven't already seen, Posts is officially available in the App Store today! Thank you all for rocking with the TestFlight for so long 🫰

Much love if you can share it with a friend or leave us a review ❤️
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/posts-by-read-cv/id1658640729

Used Llama 3 to fix and test a handful of code for the first time today and it went really well. Continued to refine the code until I got what I needed. And it even helped me minify my code.

This cavern beat me this time, but once I get into shape, I’m coming back for it. My wife and I only got 2/3 of the way up before it started raining. Edited with VSCO.

What do developers recommend for creating URL reports for websites? I’ve been using Screaming Frog’s spider tool for years but running into issues with bigger sites or random redirects. Is there anything better out there?

Wordpress and custom websites are super complicated for non-devs. I’m a designer, not a dev. 

just spent 5 hours trying to install an SSL certificate on a new domain. I was able to do a smart install of WP but can’t get the domain live to make design edits. It’s maddening.

Just launched a massive Squarespace site for a great client. Went out of scope on a couple items, but they were cool with additional fees and we were able to create a fantastic site for them. dingsmotionusa.com

My old website’s positioning and design, while excellent and sophisticated, wasn't helping me convert clients.

Now I'm focused on one-day or multi-day projects and live Squarespace support now, presenting my work in a new way and streamlining my process.

justinmabee.com

I’m experiencing the worst decline in my business that I’ve ever had. All leads have dried up, traffic is minimal on my website despite having solid SEO, and the last 5 proposals I sent out, the clients said no because they went with someone at a lower rate. 

And I feel lost.

Can't wait to see the full Squarespace ad with Scorsese and daughter Francesca live on Sunday!

👉 Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_33RvpEK-E
👉 Get in touch: info@justinmabee.com 📩

Anyone else feel like all they see is negativity, especially in their job?

Microsoft’s new Phi-3 LLM is insanely fast at general knowledge. My latest stack of LLMs include Llama 3, Perplexity, Sonar Small and Medium, and Phi-3. There’s also an insane image generator from HuggingChat I’ve been using that is leaps and bounds better than Midjourney.

Spent upwards of 5 hours changing fonts on my website.

Hated them all.

Ended up going back to what I had before, just a heavier weight on the navigation and headings.

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Interested in learning more about how to make money work for you in your business? In collaboration with Squarespace Circle, I’ll be hosting a live session to discuss ways to earn and spend your money more efficiently.
Register for the March 27th event here: https://rb.gy/4bevi3

Planning bigger and better things in 2024. More income by the halfway point of the year with solid plans and goals to get there. Expect a lot more from me here!

Act II from The Browser Company feels big. Like iPhone big. Like it could drastically change the future. The key point in this video is about cutting out the search engine and giving you what you’re looking for right away.

youtu.be/WIeJF3kL5ng?si=bAUhpTS6AO1MsgmK

Check my first tutorial video "Adjusting Mobile and Saving Sections for Quicker Building in Squarespace 7.1”. If you have other Squarespace related questions you’d like to see a tutorial on, I’m open to suggestions so comment below!

https://youtu.be/a1K51UnqmRA?feature=shared

I hate dropbox. It's the same email address.

I’ve tried three AI headshot generators so far and they all make me look weird. I guess that just means I need to get some actual proper headshots. Or illustrated avatars.

Still looking for work or a job.

Despite a new redesign, work has really dried up. I have one open project, a few maintenance clients, and no open proposals or leads in the pipeline. Trying to improve my newsletter and create new blog/SEO content on top of applying for jobs.

Squarespace going intergalactic with their new SB ad, directed by Martin Scorsese. But this is the biggest truth from the whole thing.

Launching my new website today. Excited to hear everyone’s thoughts. Fixing some links and blog posts now, should be able to get it up in a couple hours.

My wife is opening a bookstore, and instead of business cards, she wanted to get bookmarks made. Canva doesn’t do printing of bookmarks, so she had to go to Staples. They came out nice, but…not in bookmark size. 🤔🤔

What to do now?

I own futureofsearch.ai and .org. What should I do with them?

Seeing a large influx of spam bookings from my website. Seems it's a mailinator fake clicks spam attack. Tried Clickcease to no avail.

Switching my booking system to cal.com which has email verification for bookings, maybe if I have that on temporarily it'll stop.

I designed something I’m really proud of today. 

I hope the client likes it.

In a bizarre move, I was welcomed into 2024 by an email from a former client asking for a full refund on a website I built for them in April of 2023. Seems people have a habit of filing chargebacks on service providers in the new year when they see their Christmas bills.

Finally snagged an Analogue Pocket in the last color drop. Starting to research where to find old Game Boy games, found Etsy to be a great value and reliable. So much nostalgia this winter.

Instead of arguing with people on Threads about Squarespace’s recent acquisition by Permira for $7B, I wrote a blog post exploring the facts and giving some ideas of what the future might look like. https://justinmabee.com/blog/squarespace-acquisition-permira-impact

I swear if I see one more website for a major startup with over a million dollar valuation using Poppins on their site, I'm gonna lose it. 

It's so over used. Stop using Poppins.

Next Monday I’m co-hosting an AMA with Christy Price, one of my favorite people in the Squarespace community. Ask us anything about Squarespace, marketing, growing a business, or anything else!
👉 Register for the event on March 25th here: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/ama-mar24

I'm getting ONE (I repeat, ONE) invite to Arc for Windows beta. First one to DM here, gets it.