Do Web Designers Use Squarespace?

Oct 14

Yes! There are hundreds if not thousands of Squarespace designers who create websites and custom templates for the Squarespace platform. They all range from different experience levels and specializations, including but not limited to websites for small businesses, solopreneurs, women-based businesses, therapists, birthing coaches, musicians, real estate agents, authors, bloggers, interior designers, content creators, pet care providers, hospital providers, and so much more.

Why do Designers Prefer Using Squarespace?

Web designers are graphic artists who design the layout, usability, and visual appearance of a website. Squarespace has all of the tools that allow web designers to perform their job exceptionally.

Here’s an overview of what Squarespace offers:

E-Commerce, Blogging, Email Marketing, and Scheduling Options

Squarespace offers a lot of functionality that allows designers to create pretty much any website imaginable for clients. Here is a short overview of some of the main website solutions Squarespace offers:

E-Commerce
Squarespace lets you easily create store collections and product pages, and lets you create product categories, tags, and different product types, including digital products physical products, online courses, and paid membership areas.
You can set up multiple payment options with Stripe, PayPal, and Square, you can request product reviews, handle inventory, send customer notifications, set up shipping and pickup options for physical products, create waitlists, and so much more.

Blogging and Other Collection Pages
Squarespace allows you to create multiple collection pages with categories and tags including blog pages, video pages, portfolio pages upcoming event pages, and store pages.
Email Marketing
Squarespace offers email campaigns with 70+ email templates to choose from, plus the option to customize email templates with fonts, images, colors, and more. You can create different campaigns and mailing lists, and set up scheduled and automated emails. Email marketing is a separate option from Squarespace’s website plans, so it will require an additional payment plan.
Scheduling
Squarespace offers Acuity Scheduling as a separate payment plan from the website builder plans. You can do a multitude of things with Acuity Scheduling, such as manually creating appointments, allowing website visitors to schedule appointments, creating and sending page scheduling links, creating blocks of time you are available for scheduling, setting scheduling limits like holidays and regular hours, and so much more.

Easy Website Editor w/ Multiple Customization Options - No Coding Required

Squarespace’s editor is one of the easiest to use according to sources such as Website Builder Expert, Website Planet, Style Factory, and more. This is mainly due to its intuitive page builder that allows you to use the Classic Editor, which is a more structured builder, and the Fluid Engine, which is an unstructured drag n’ drop editor similar to Wix. Both allow you to create breathtaking and functional websites without having to write code. Squarespace has a lot of blocks to choose from, including text blocks, buttons, images, galleries, audio files, videos (YouTube, Vimeo, and Squarespace-hosted videos), newsletter blocks, contact forms, summary blocks, calendar and scheduling blocks, maps, code blocks, accordion blocks for FAQ sections, and so much more.

In addition to the intuitive page builder, Squarespace offers customization options including fonts, color themes, individual page section background colors, animations, spacing, button styling, image block styling, and so much more.

Although no coding is required to build a Squarespace site, you can customize sites with custom CSS, HTML and even JavaScript using code blocks, header and footer code injections, and the Custom CSS editor in Squarespace. To learn more about how and where to add custom code to Squarespace, you might enjoy reading my article How and Where to Add Custom Code in Squarespace (CSS, HTML, and JavaScript). There are also many Squarespace plugins available that can add advanced functionality to the Squarespace platform (free and paid). Check out my Premium Plugins compatible with both Squarespace 7.0 and 7.1, or check out the many other plugins on the marketplace.

Referral Payments

Squarespace offers referral payments for Squarespace designers who convert Squarespace users. This means that anytime you convert a client to Squarespace, they will pay you a certain amount of money depending on what kind of plan they subscribed to.

If you want more information about Squarespace’s Referral Program, you can read more here.