How to Set Up Your Substack Website Settings (And Why You Still Need a Real Website)

Описание: 👉 Your Substack publication comes with a website — but before you get too cozy, there's something you need to know. In this video, we're doing a full walkthrough of Substack's Website Settings, so you can get your publication looking polished, on-brand, and ready for visitors.
We'll cover everything from editing your theme and brand colors, to configuring your header, hero section, footer, navigation bar, posts layout, and more — including some live changes made in real time so you can see exactly how each setting affects the look of your page.
But here's the caveat: your Substack "website" is actually a subdomain living inside Substack's ecosystem. That means Substack owns it — not you. I'll explain why that matters and why you should have your own domain alongside your Substack presence.

👉 Watch this first: Why You Need Your Own Website Domain (Not Just Substack):    • Going Fractional? Get your website domain.  

In this video you'll learn:

👉 What Substack's website actually is (and what it isn't)
👉 How to edit your theme: brand colors, typography, image rounding, and layout
👉 How to configure your header, hero section, footer, and welcome page
👉 How to set up your navigation bar and enable/disable tabs like Notes, Chat, and Archive
👉 How to add custom pages, homepage links, and custom content tags
👉 How to customize your posts and podcast layout
👉 Why your Substack About page needs more love than you've given it

This video is part of a series on setting up your Substack publication. Previous videos covered Basics, Payments, and Growth settings — this one tackles the Website tab in full.

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00:00 Why your Substack website should be easy to navigate
00:22 What this video covers: Substack Website Settings
00:34 Your Substack site is a subdomain — not an independent website
01:05 Why you should not rely on Substack as your only website
01:32 How to access the Website Settings in Substack
01:46 Navigating the Website Editor interface
02:16 Editing your theme: brand colors and accent color
04:06 Typography options and why Substack keeps them minimal
04:28 Smart cropping vs. center cropping for images
04:51 Image corner rounding options (including "absurd")
05:12 Using the custom body layout builder
05:37 Configuring your Header: logo, wordmark, layout, and navigation style
06:57 Configuring your Hero section: layout styles explained
07:40 Posts and modules: list vs. grid layout, post count settings
08:33 Configuring your Footer: columns and social buttons
09:11 Setting up your Welcome Page for first-time visitors
09:43 Content: Posts settings — typography, drop caps, bylines, and read-aloud voice
12:30 Navigation bar settings: enabling/disabling tabs (Podcast, Notes, Chat, Archive, Leaderboard)
14:00 Homepage links: adding external links to your sidebar
14:28 About page: why you need to customize it (and what's missing from most)
14:57 Custom pages and adding them to your navigation bar
15:38 Custom tags: organizing your content by topic
16:10 Wrapping up: what you can and can't control on your Substack site
17:07 Final thoughts + subscribe CTA (and yes, she sees you still watching)

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