In the last chapter, we created empty or sample pages and items to prepare your site framework for the main event: filling the site with real content and functions and arranging them on the page to create your desired page layouts. This chapter will show you how to add, remove, and edit content on your site and give you all of the core skills you will need to manage your page layouts. You will also gain a better understanding of the page and item properties that we introduced in the last chapter by adding and arranging the real content that you gathered in your Website Toolkit to result in finished web pages.

In this chapter, you will learn how to use three of the most powerful and creative tools that Squarespace offers: Squarespace Blocks, which allow you to insert a range of content and functions; the Squarespace LayoutEngine, which controls page layouts; and the Aviary Image Editor, which allows you to manipulate...