Settings

The next area accessible from the Home Menu is the Settings area. When you click on Settings, you will see the following menu in the side panel:

The Settings area is made up of many items, so be sure to scroll down to see them all. You'll notice that the items are grouped into subsections to make it easier to find related items. You will mainly use the Settings area at the beginning of your project to configure your site and set things up before you start building and populating your site with content. We'll carry out many of these activities in the next part of this chapter.

You can use Settings to set up the following:

• Information about your business: You can enter business-related information, such as your company name and slogan, and indicate where your business is located.
• Information about your Squarespace account: This is where you set your subscription plan, payment details, and account name.
• Control access and visibility: You can enable a custom domain name, set up some important features for search engines, or lock public access to your website.
• Social media sharing: Here is where you can link to your Facebook page or allow visitors to share your content within their social networks.
• Additional authors: You can add user accounts here to allow colleagues to contribute content and manage the site.
• Configuring your store: This is where you connect to payment gateways, and set up operations such as taxes and shipping.

You probably won't need to use most of the more technical or advanced settings unless you later find that you want to do some complicated things with your site (usually with the help of a Squarespace developer).