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5 Things to Consider When Choosing a Domain in 2025
Choosing the right domain name is crucial for establishing a strong online presence, especially in the rapidly evolving digital landscape of 2025. Learn essential insights and best practices for selecting the right domain name.
5 SEO Trends to Watch in 2025
Discover the top five SEO trends to watch in 2025, including AI summaries, chat interfaces, pop-ups for customer engagement, user-generated content, and the EEAT framework. Stay ahead in the SEO game with these cutting-edge strategies.
How to Use Squarespace Payments to Boost Ecommerce Sales
Help your clients maximize sales and simplify payments with Squarespace Payments. Set up secure, streamlined payment solutions so they can sell more and thrive.
Sketchbook: Embracing Artistic Authenticity in Web Design
The Sketchbook aesthetic is characterized by personality and a glimpse at the artist’s unfiltered thoughts. Learn how to embrace the trend in your next web design project.
Characters With Charisma: How Text Spells Identity in 2025 Web Design
The Just My Type trend is characterized by expressive type to communicate mood, attitude, and personality. Learn how to play with typography in your web design projects.
Turn Up the Glow: How Color Electrifies Web Design in 2025
The Vivid Glow design trend embraces colors so bright they seem to glow, capturing visitors’ attention with an unmistakable vibrancy. Learn how to apply the aesthetic to your web design projects.
Laughs That Click: How Visual Smiles Bring Humor and Heart to Web Design in 2025
The Visual Smiles trend is characterized by light-hearted and joyful forms, shapes, and copy. Learn how to implement illustrations, playful typography, or fun imagery into web design projects.
Back to the Roots: How Nature-Inspired Design Blossoms Across the Internet
Organic Matter brings natural elements to the digital realm. Learn how to apply the web design trend with nature-inspired textures, forms, shapes, and layers.
2025 Web Design Trends
Stay ahead of the trends with 2025 web design predictions from Squarespace Circle, including Organic Matter, Vivid Glow, and Visual Smiles!
Getting Started with Circle: Global Members’ Edition
Circle is Squarespace’s program for professional designers. Along with exclusive content, discounts, and other perks, Circle brings professionals together from across the globe to exchange advice while connecting with new clients and collaborators.
Embracing Dark Mode: Design Considerations and Hacks
Transform your Squarespace site with a sleek dark mode aesthetic that enhances readability and adds a modern edge. This guide explores how to implement dark mode effectively, ensuring your design looks stunning while prioritizing user experience.
Circle Day 2024 with Anthony Casalena and Paul Gubbay
Squarespace Founder and CEO Anthony Casalena returns to the Circle Day stage for a conversation with Paul Gubbay. The two chat through highlights from Squarespace Refresh and share what’s on the horizon for Squarespace.
From Clicks to Customers: Branding for Squarespace Ecommerce Sites
Learn how to seamlessly incorporate brand identity into web design, use Squarespace’s features to capture and retain customer attention, and apply ecommerce best practices to service-based sellers.
Web Design Nightmares: Spine-Tingling Situations and How to Fix Them
Web designers are haunted by common website problems. Learn how to improve client websites by identifying and solving these spine-tingling issues.
Web Design Strategy Part 1: Strategic Design
Strategic design helps you learn about your clients’ businesses and solve their problems systematically. The first step is to know what you’re trying to achieve.
Web Design Strategy Part 2: UX and UI Essentials
Explore the best practices and strategies for combining UX and UI in strategic web design. Learn how to create a user-centric web design plan that boosts engagement and drives success in 2024.
Web Design Strategy Part 3: Information Architecture
At its core, information architecture helps people know where they are and what they need to do next. Learn the basics of information architecture and how effective organization on a website can help achieve your clients’ goals.
Discounting Strategies for the Holidays and Beyond
Discover seven powerful discounting strategies to help your clients maximize sales this holiday season. Learn how to optimize sites for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and beyond.
Essential Ecommerce Features Every Site Should Have for Black Friday and Cyber Monday
For web designers, understanding and implementing certain features can sustain a successful Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaign. Explore the must-have ecommerce features that ensure websites perform optimally, convert visitors into buyers, and stand out in a competitive market during these key sales events.
How to Prepare Your Client’s Ecommerce Website for the Holidays
Helping prepare for the holidays is one of the most useful ways a professional web designer can assert their value to ecommerce clients. Learn how to update retail websites to capture and support customers during the holidays.