How to Use Squarespace as a Web Designer
There are many factors to consider when choosing a new website builder for your web design business, including costs, data, and usability for both yourself and your clients. With award-winning customer support, in-depth help articles, webinars, pro user programs, and blogs, Squarespace has an abundance of resources to support you in every stage of your web design career. The following are some of the essentials.
Squarespace Help Center
With nearly 1,000 articles and hundreds of videos available, the Squarespace Help Center is a hub of educational content. Articles feature step-by-step instructions and guides to help you become an expert with Squarespace’s products and learn best practices. The following guides are relevant for new Squarespace customers and burgeoning freelancers.
If you’re a more visual learner, video tutorials offer how-tos so you can train yourself and be confident you're getting the most out of Squarespace. As you dive into full-time website building and learn how to use Squarespace, the following videos will help you build a strong foundation for your web design business.
Webinars
Free Squarespace webinars can help you refine your Squarespace skills. These one-hour sessions help you build your (or your client’s) website and get comfortable with Squarespace’s features. Plus, members of the Squarespace Customer Support team attend most sessions to answer your questions, so you’ll never leave a webinar without the knowledge and skills to advance your web design career. We recommend these scheduled and on-demand webinars for web designers starting to build on Squarespace.
Blogs
In addition to a wealth of articles and videos, Squarespace seeks to support customers through content on thoughtfully curated blogs.
Making It
Squarespace’s blog, Making It, is full of tips and inspiration, giving customers access to stories, thought leadership, and solutions-oriented pieces to help them best use the platform. For professional web designers, the Making It blog features posts that address freelance work, entrepreneurship, brand building, and more that can help you develop your business and branding, as well as those of your clients. The following are essential for Squarespace web designers.
Circle blog
Created with professional web designers in mind, the Circle blog is a go-to spot for advice on how to grow your business, develop your skills, and manage your clients. This specialized blog features a library of content and programming to address topics such as design trends, product deep-dives, and client acquisition. Read the following blog posts as you start establishing your web design career on Squarespace.
Squarespace Forum
The Squarespace Forum is an online community where customers and developers come together to discuss best practices, seek advice, and even share coding solutions for advanced customization of the Squarespace platform. You can seek help from fellow Squarespace customers by posting a new topic or search available topics to view public discussions and solutions.
Learn more about getting started on the Squarespace Forum.
Customer Support
Squarespace’s award-winning Customer Support team is here to help you throughout your website-building journey. Whether you encounter website troubleshooting, product challenges, or platform outages and errors, the Customer Support team will guide you through. Plus, you’ll always chat with a real human who is fully dedicated to assisting you.
Learn more about contacting Customer Support.
Made with Squarespace
You can find a variety of example websites created by Squarespace customers on the Made with Squarespace page. Made with Squarespace features a collection of select beautiful, functional, and inspirational websites. You can browse through websites made for online stores, local businesses, portfolios, and restaurants, to name a few.
Social media
Inspiration is also in the palm of your hand on Squarespace’s various social media profiles. Follow us on the platforms below to stay up-to-date on company news, latest trends, product launches, and informative content:
If you’re looking for assistance via social media, Squarespace’s Help Twitter provides service updates and support.
Circle membership
Squarespace Circle is a program designed to support, inspire, and engage a community of professional creatives, developers, and designers who use Squarespace to build websites for themselves and their clients. Those who have built—or are contributors to—three or more active Squarespace websites are eligible to join the Squarespace Circle community.
Circle members receive special access to 6-month trial periods, optimized customer support, and access to exclusive content. Membership comes complete with weekly product release notes, newsletters, learning paths, discounts, high-level events and webinars, and a dedicated members-only forum. Within the Circle Forum, members can offer product and tool suggestions using an exclusive feature request board.
Learn more about Circle perks.
Firsthand experiences
When it comes to professional web designers choosing to use Squarespace to grow their careers, we'll let the pros speak for themselves. The following are just a few of the interviews conducted with Circle members about their experiences using Squarespace.
Additional resources
Pricing: What’s included? Squarespace website plans include everything you need to get your business up-and-running. Check out our Pricing page to see which plan is right for you.
Marketplace: A place where clients can hire an independent designer (a.k.a. Squarespace Expert) to help them with their site. Squarespace Experts are among the most experienced and active members of Circle. They're vetted for their work quality, technical skills, years of Squarespace experience, and client-first approach.
Feature List: An exhaustive list of everything the Squarespace platform can do.
Audio series: “Making It” is Squarespace’s audio series for creators and entrepreneurs. The audio series is great for web designers looking for inspiration and firsthand experience on starting and sustaining a small business in today’s marketplace.
Engineering blog: Hear from Squarespace engineers who have worked to develop the platform as we know it.
Squarespace Enterprise: The first step in empowering enterprise teams with solutions to build websites and brands with greater flexibility and control with enterprise-grade security, best-in-class design, premium support, and more.
Want more?
Check out Squarespace Circle, Squarespace’s program for professional designers. Along with exclusive content, discounts, and other perks, Circle brings professionals together from all across the globe to exchange advice while connecting with new clients and collaborators.
