A tour of the Squarespace dashboard
A plain-English walkthrough of the Squarespace dashboard — what each menu item does and where to find the key tools you'll use most.
When you log in to Squarespace, you land on your Home Menu — the central hub for managing your website. This guide explains what each section does so you can find what you need quickly.
Quick summary
The Squarespace dashboard is called the Home Menu. It's divided into sections: Pages (your site structure), Design (look and feel), Commerce (if you sell products), Marketing, Analytics, and Settings. Most day-to-day editing happens in Pages.
Getting to the dashboard
Log in at account.squarespace.com. If you have more than one site on your account, select the one you want to work on. You'll then see the Home Menu for that site.
The Home Menu sections
Pages
This is where you manage the structure and content of your website. You'll see a list of all your pages. Click any page name to edit it, or use the + button to add a new page.
Pages is where you'll spend most of your time as a content editor.
Design
This section controls how your site looks:
- Site Styles — fonts, colors, and spacing across the whole site
- Logo & Title — your business name and logo image
- Favicon — the small icon that appears in browser tabs
- Custom CSS — for advanced code-based customizations (leave this to Chykalophia)
- 404 Page — what visitors see if they land on a page that doesn't exist
Commerce
Only visible if your plan includes Squarespace Commerce. Here you manage your products, inventory, orders, discounts, and store settings. See Squarespace Commerce overview for more.
Marketing
Tools to help you promote your site:
- Email Campaigns — send newsletters to subscribers (paid add-on)
- SEO — site-wide SEO settings and tools
- Promotional pop-ups — show a pop-up to visitors
- Social links — connect your social media profiles
Analytics
Shows you how people are finding and using your site. You can see page views, where visitors came from, and how visitors move through your site. For deeper analytics, most sites use Google Analytics. See SEO settings in Squarespace for connecting Google.
Settings
This is where the technical and account settings live:
- Website — your site's language, region, and time zone
- Domains — manage your domain name or connect one
- Billing & account — your subscription plan and payment details
- Advanced — developer tools, SSL, and code injection (leave these to Chykalophia)
- Permissions — add or remove contributors and set their access level
Settings to leave alone
The Advanced settings area includes options that can break your site if changed incorrectly. Unless Chykalophia has asked you to change something specific, leave this section as it is.
The site preview and editing toolbar
When you're inside the Pages editor, you see your live site with an editing overlay. A small panel (sometimes called the Pages panel) sits on the left side. Click any section or block to edit it. When you're done, click Save to keep your changes.
Switching between websites
If your Squarespace account contains more than one website, you can switch between them by clicking your website name at the top of the Home Menu, then selecting a different site. Each site has its own separate Home Menu and settings.
Common questions
Related guides
- Pages & navigation explained
- How to edit a page
- Changing fonts, colors & site styles
- Squarespace plans & billing explained
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