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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.
SEO Tips to Get Found This Black Friday and Cyber Monday
As clients gear up for shopping events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it's essential to prioritize SEO. Ensure the website is fully prepared for the influx of holiday traffic.
How to Implement Effective Pop-ups and Announcement Bars for Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales
During Black Friday and Cyber Monday, consumers are inundated with offers and promotions from countless retailers. With competition so fierce, ecommerce websites must capture visitors’ attention. Learn how to use pop-ups and announcement bars effectively.
Behind the Build: How Six Web Designers Create Impactful Homepages
Take a behind-the-scenes tour of six impressive site showcases from top Squarespace web designers. See how they craft mock sites from concept to completion, sharing creative insights and design inspiration along the way.
How to Choose the Right Color Scheme for a Website
Learn how to select the perfect color scheme for your clients' websites. Gain insight into color theory, psychology, and the most effective color combinations to elevate your designs.
The Eight Things We’re Most Excited about at Circle Day 2024
Discover the top eight reasons why Circle Day 2024 is an unmissable event for professional web designers. From member-led sessions to inspiring keynotes and networking opportunities, get ready for a day filled with insights that will shape the future of web design.
How to Optimize Product Descriptions for Ecommerce Sites
You offer your clients expertise beyond design and development—the copy on your clients’ websites keeps and converts their site visitors. This guide offers tips for creating effective product descriptions that will attract new customers through the power of SEO.
How to Use Squarespace for Free as a Web Designer
Discover how professional web designers can use Squarespace for free and create stunning websites with the Adri template. Learn best practices, tips, and strategies for maximizing the free Squarespace plan.
Five SEO Trends to Watch in 2024
Discover the top five SEO trends to watch in 2024, 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.
M-Commerce: Designing for Mobile Sites
When designing for mobile commerce, it’s important to make sure that your site’s content and architecture are built for speed. Read our in-depth guide on m-commerce and boosting mobile sales.
How Web Designers Can Harness impact.com for Squarespace Websites
Impact.com empowers Squarespace customers to set up an affiliate program and automatically track and compensate those affiliates. Learn how to set up an affiliate program to help drive traffic and conversions on your clients’ sites.