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Sharon Marta Creative
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Приєднався 10 січ 2012
Branding, Graphic & Website design tips and tutorials. Squarespace and Showit website design
No Illustrator or Photoshop required! Build Creative Website Designs in Squarespace
I built these inspirational boards for my own web design business and now I am making them available to you. In this video I show you how to use my creative artboards in Squarespace without using Adobe Illustrator or PhotoShop.
Hi, my name is Sharon. I'm an award-winning graphic designer and website designer for over 24 years. No gate-keeping here, I'm an open book. Please, feel free to ask me any questions about design or web design.
5 Musts for a High-Converting Website
www.SharonMarta.com
Design More Creative Sites: 60 Creative Inspirational Designs for Web Designers:
sharonmarta.com/shop
Content Creator’s Toolkit:
www.sharonmarta.com/resources
Follow me on Instagram:
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Get 10% off Squarespace with code SHARON10 squarespace.syuh.net/Oj7dP
Hi, my name is Sharon. I'm an award-winning graphic designer and website designer for over 24 years. No gate-keeping here, I'm an open book. Please, feel free to ask me any questions about design or web design.
5 Musts for a High-Converting Website
www.SharonMarta.com
Design More Creative Sites: 60 Creative Inspirational Designs for Web Designers:
sharonmarta.com/shop
Content Creator’s Toolkit:
www.sharonmarta.com/resources
Follow me on Instagram:
/ sharonmarta_creative
Get 10% off Squarespace with code SHARON10 squarespace.syuh.net/Oj7dP
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High-End Website Design Tips Using Squarespace Part 2
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In this tutorial, I show you how I use design principles to design high-end and creative websites. This website design was for a counselor/therapist. Keep in mind these principles can be use on any platform, not just Squarespace. Hi, my name is Sharon. I'm an award-winning graphic designer and website designer for over 24 years. No gate-keeping here, I'm an open book. Please, feel free to ask m...
How To Streamline Getting Your Website Client's Content
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This tutorial includes instructions on how to create fillable forms using either Adobe Acrobat Pro or Canva Pro. Both have a monthly subscription. Hi, my name is Sharon. I'm an award-winning graphic designer and website designer for over 23 years. No gate-keeping here, I'm an open book. Please, feel free to ask me any questions about design or web design. Unbranded Website Content Planner sharo...
Get An SEO Boost For Your Website With These 2 Tips
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If you're designing your own website, before you upload photos to your website, make sure to reduce the files size. This not only helps with your page speed when visitors come, but also Google rewards those who have quick page loading speed by ranking you up higher. If you don't have Photoshop, I recommend using www.compressjpeg.com. Once you reduce the images, make sure to rename all of your i...
How to Add Custom Fonts in Squarespace 7.1
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In my last video you saw how I use custom code to uplevel my Squarespace website to look more high-end. In this video I'll show you how to add the code for using custom fonts. Copy and paste below code: //Custom Fonts Squarespace// @font-face { font-family: 'font-name'; src: url(unique-url-for-your-file: click the file in your custom file folder to get this url) } //Heading One Font// h1 { font...
50 Inspirational Design Layouts For Website Designers
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As a web designer, I am always looking for inspiration for my creative designs. I started to think that there must be a file with all the creative layouts in one place. While I found some basic wireframes online, I wanted designs that were more out of the box. That's when I started to collect all my favorite web layout designs in an Illustrator file. Now, I can quickly create wireframes that ar...
3 Tips To Better Website Design
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No more boring, flat website design. If you don't stand out from the crowd, you're audience is going to leave for better websites. Here are 3 design tips you can do today to increase time your viewers spend on your website. Hi, my name is Sharon. I'm an award-winning graphic designer and website designer for over 23 years. No gate-keeping here, I'm an open book. Please, feel free to ask me any ...
High-End-Looking Website Design Tips Using Squarespace
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I've looked for other tutorials on how to make a Squarespace site look more like the more creative platforms like Showit and couldn't find any. In this video, I wanted to create a more high-end and creative design for this wedding videographer based out of the Bay Area and New England. Hi, my name is Sharon. I'm an award-winning graphic designer and website designer for over 23 years. No gate-k...
How To Improve As A Graphic Designer
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As a graphic designer, it's vital to continuously improve on your skills. Skills in both your design capabilities, your software skills, your critiqueing skills and how you manage your clients. As a graphic designer for 23 years, this is what I've learned on how to grow my graphic design skills and running a freelance business from home. Leave me any questions you have about being a graphic des...
Create A Beautiful Website in 20 Minutes Using Squarespace
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I Lost My Job! Starting My Own Business (2019 episode)
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Why are brand guidebooks important? Before and After
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Website Before And After For Christian Author
Branding - Why You Need A Brand Guidebook
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Psychological Reasons People Are Attracted To Good Design
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Psychological Reasons People Are Attracted To Good Design
Behind-the-Scenes Designing A Vintage Logo in Adobe Illustrator
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Behind-the-Scenes Designing A Vintage Logo in Adobe Illustrator
Website Design & Branding for Health & Wellness Brand
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Essential Oil Business Website Template
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How to Make A Favicon in Canva for Free
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How to Make A Favicon in Canva for Free
Your designs are amazing and love that you share your insights with us, thank you!
Amazing, website looks beautiful and the video was really helpful x
would also love to know how you got the logo to split between the header and intro section :)
She might have used that image she created in photoshop minus the active links in the header. And then used it as a background in the top section of Squarespace. But not entirely sure either
Hi Sharon - absoutely love these videos - thank you! I'm in the process of building a new website on Squarespace and have very little design experience so they are extremely useful :)
Thank you! QQ - how to change title font in Testimonials? Because only in this block font didn't applying (
I would double check that the testimonial font is assigned to the same heading you have the custom font on. Go to the styles>fonts>assign fonts>List Section>Title. You can set it to whichever heading you have the custom font assigned to. That should solve it but if it's still not showing up, you might need to go a more specific route and use the selector ID to identify that title in CSS and assign it the custom font.
thank you so much for this!!
My pleasure! Glad you liked it
Which font license would allow for use on multiple websites?
Thanks for this! Your method seems like an easier way to add custom fonts than some of the other tutorials I've watched so far. For the emphasis, would you do the same for the Bold typeface as well?
Yay, so glad this was helpful. The code for using bold in Squarespace CSS is "strong"
Thanks for the new video! I’m looking forward to seeing what other content you post! Always good to learn as much as you can!
My pleasure, glad it helps. Thank you for letting me know
Great video! I’m curious, do bands use this much or is geared more towards regular commerce?
Thanks Mike! Oh yes, bands can definitely use Squarespace for their websites.
@@SharonMarta okay, thanks. I’ll look into it. Doing a rebrand of two older projects into a new one. My nephews are getting more involved in the music making and I’d like it all to be in one spot. Good luck with your channel! You’re doing great!
Thank you so much for this, it really helped me, it's just what I needed to know.
Yay!!! So glad it helped! Thanks for letting me know
Thank you! So clear and I loved the tip about using the emphasis to tailor the type of specific letters ...my mind is buzzing thinking what I can do.
Yay!! So glad it helped. :) Thank you for letting me know.
As a wedding videographer myself I have to say your squarespace design skills are next level! I haven’t ask since I do something similar, when you have that video playing in the background of the header.. once you go into mobile view it’s just a thumbnail.. how do you work around that
Aw.. Thank you so much! I appreciate that especially coming from a wedding videographer. Regarding the video background, are you using Squarespace 7.1? It should play even in mobile view. The Squarespace Circle forum is a great place to get your tech issues solved. If you've designed at least 3 sites you can get into the forum.
@@SharonMarta i designed mine a few times lol, i realized since my phone was stopping it while in low power mode lol
SO GOOD! I am a health coach and would love your help building mine! What template did you use in squarespace?
So glad you love it. I actually don't start with a template for my sites. I design my own. Definitely fill out an inquiry form on my site if you need some help and we can chat.
This was awesome thank you
Yay!!! So glad it helped
Hello sharon, I just saw some of your videos on UA-cam. I liked your videos very much. you uploaded many video youtube . According to this, your subscribers are very less. If you upload videos regularly and enhance the quality of your videos and thumbnails, then you will be able to grow on UA-cam very quickly. I can help you grow on UA-cam. I can enhance your videos better than before. If you have time, we can talk in a meeting
Thanks for sharing, this was extremely helpful! It won’t let me copy the code in your description. Is there anyway you can post it on the comments or do you have it on your site?
Oh weird. Thanks for the heads up. Here's the blog post with the code www.sharonmarta.com/blog/how-to-up-level-your-website-design-with-custom-code
This was soooo extremely helpful - thank you!!
Yay, so glad it helped.
Looks nice! Any chance you could share those custom codes? Its so hard to find them online
Yes, I'll make a blog post with them. Here's a video of the custom fonts code ua-cam.com/video/acD_-HA_vmg/v-deo.html&lc=UgzdN_DVJs6eopmV0HN4AaABAg
This is absolutely amazing. Currently trying to design my own website and this is so encouraging
Yay!!! So glad it helped
Thanks for taking the time to create this video - very helpful 🙌 I have saved it and it will definitely be used when I will soon create my own SS website 🤓
Awesome!!! So glad you liked it
Thank you for the video!
My pleasure! Glad you liked it
Hi, just curious how you got the Google font identification app to work on desktop, as my Mac isn’t letting me install it? Thanks 😊
Here's what I use, I have a mac as well and use Chrome browser whatfonttool.com/
Great video Sharon. Who created the video for the home page? I was curious what tool is used to splice together something like this for non-videographer websites. Have you done that also?
Thanks Kelly. Great question, his videos are amazing. Since this was for a videographer, he made his own video montage. But, I have made video montages before. If you want to take a stab at it yourself, you can use Canva.
I use Canva all the time. Didn’t realize it does video montage also. I will check it out! Thanks!
These tips are amazing. Thank you so much!
Awww thank you! I'm so glad they helped.
Are you no longer offering this?
I still offer this, yes. Is the link not working? sharonmarta.com/shop/p/50-creative-website-designs
@@SharonMarta it says “Checkout is closed This store isn't set up to process payments.”
@@ashleyboyd7909 Ahhhhhh!!! That's not good. Thank you for letting me know. I'll fix that now
@@SharonMarta also, when I signed up for the free download nothing comes to my email. I used two different emails and both times nothing comes
Weird glitch that my store was turned off. Try it now and see if it works.
THANKYOU so so much.
My pleasure! Glad you liked it
Spot on!
Thanks! glad you liked it
thanks for posting this !!!
My pleasure!
that looks awesome !!!
Thanks!
I need a brand identity package! This looks amazing! Thanks
Looks good!
Thanks!
I need to see this project in detail, can you send me your Behance, please?
You can see this on my website: sharonmarta.com/blog/squarespace-website-design-wedding-photographers
But it defeats the point. Square space should have been easy to customize
Not sure what you mean. Easy for a website designer or easy for the average person? Square space is definitely easy to customize for the average user. The new fluid engine update makes things so much better for customizing.
Very cool websites🙂
Oh thank you! :)
@@SharonMarta My pleasure! You are a great artist 🙂 ! I am curious, do you listen to podcasts 🎙when you are creating?
@@eliecastonguay I do listen to podcasts, not necessarily while I am creating art, haha. Usually on my walks.
@@SharonMarta Oh okay cool! Because I created a free podcast with more than 90 episodes that helps artists to make a better living from their art! 🙂 Can I share the link with you by email?
Great how to design a Favicon on Canva BUT how to add a Favicon in a website designed on Canva?
That is a good question that I would look to Canva for. I design websites on Squarespace or Showit so I have not seen how Canva websites work.
Always plugins to add too!
Hi Sharon! I'm completely in the dark on all the things you talk about. I have a website through Kajabi, I have Canva Pro and often struggle with my UA-cam thumbnails. I see what other people do, but when it comes to me doing it, it just doesn't look right. I struggle while trying to figure it out. What are your recommendations?
Hi, thanks for the question. So just to make sure I understand, are you struggling with branding yourself or with making UA-cam thumbnails that stand out? You seem to be doing good on UA-cam! Way to go.
@@SharonMarta with creating both UA-cam thumbnails and titles that stand out.
@@YetisPlace Ahh gotcha. So UA-cam thumbnails are a little different than your main branding. A lot relies on standing out on this platform amongst the sea of competition. You'll want to check out the top UA-cam channels in your niche and see what they are doing to stand out. You want to make sure your thumbnail is easy to read in small format, so only a few words. Easy to read font, usually a bold sans serif. They need to show an emotion, i.e. cute, shocking, surpise, sentimental, love, funny etc.
great information, wow, i'm amazed at all the material one has to know
Glad it helped. Yes, it's a lot that goes into branding
fascinating to watch this video, i thiink i'm too old to utilize this information, - i was born in the primitive days
parents never ARE FORCED to help, tey relish the opportunity to help and love being able to contribute and push the next generation on to greater heights than they had, so the ladder of success is a step at a time, and the rung your parents are on, enables you to be pushed to the next rung up, so on it goes, and it is the bulding blocks to the future of the clan
11'''2022 first time seeing this wow
why the pixels were not good and blur :/
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It was really helpful, it worked just fine. Thank you!
Glad it helped!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
How much?
Hi, Are you needing a book cover design or a website design? I have pricing for both up on my website www.sharonmarta.com
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