Week four - time to jump in.
Hi you!
Can you believe that we’re already in week four of the course, this week is a special week though. You are going to take the big step of signing up with squarespace and picking your website name. Here is our official line up for the week:
This week you will officially register your domain name, exciting!
We're going to define the structure of your pages.
...you can send me your photos or take a look at free stock content.
“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
— Walt Disney Company
Registering your domain name.
The day has come, we're going to make it official! These past three weeks you have been working really hard to create soulful content, now it's time to register your domain name and set up your Squarespace account so that we have a place to create magic. If you have not registered for a Squarespace package and domain name yet, follow the steps below:
Go to Squarespace and click "Get Started" and follow the instructions.
Pick a template, just go with your intuition. (The template is just a start point, don’t overthink it.)
You can preview the template here and when you have found one you like click "Start With.”
Here you can create your account by typing in your details and register.
You will be asked a few questions and after answering them you will be directed to the page where you can "Select your Plan"
After you have decided what package you will be purchasing click select and subscribe to either a monthly or a annual plan.
You will also get the option to register your domain name via Squarespace with I highly recommend for a smooth launch!
You did it, congrats!
You officially own your own website and your personal spot on the internet now. How does that feel?
There is one thing left to do and that is to add me as a contributor so I can start creating magic for you.
Log into your Squarespace account and go to "Settings"
Click on "Permissions" and then "Invite Contributor"
Type Iris Suurland and nabalo@nabalo.com in the fields click the administrator option before you save.
I encourage you to celebrate this moment and do something nice for yourself. You will look back on this day as the day you “took the jump” into the unknown and this is where it all started.
Let’s create some structure.
Are you ready to create some website structure? You are now going to describe how you want me to structure your individual pages and what they should be called. I strongly advice you to give me as much input as possible in order for me to create a website unique to your own taste. This is the week to tell me exactly what you have in mind. And if you have no visual yet, don’t worry, I'll use my intuition and we can work from there.
Send over the good stuff.
Here comes the fun part! You know those pages you just named...they have to be filled. So please send me the writing/images/ideas per page that you want me to add. You can do this via WeTransfer to email address nabalo@nabalo.com
Send me your other content as well, like photos, artwork, written pieces or anything you want me to use on your website (apart from all the awesome content that you already submitted throughout the modules of course.) I recommend using only your own photography because of the copyright law, which we will dive deeper into next week! If you do not own high resolution pictures you might want to look into free stock photography, check out the stock website Unsplash.
Please make sure that if you're going to send me free stock photography to double check that it's free to use without crediting the owner or send me the owners name and website if you are allowed to use with credit.
I’m so proud of you, let’s finish up this week!
I know that week four of our journey is pretty intense, but you are doing an amazing job. The next two weeks we will be in full creation mode and you will see all your hard work fall into place. I'm so excited to meet again next Monday, in the fifth week of our journey because now it's time to put me to work.
Now for the below questions, if you already have answers and ideas that’s amazing, please answer them in as much detail as you can! However, if you have no idea about the vibe, pages and colors don’t worry, I will help you decide, just let me know as much as you can so we can get as close to your vision as possible.