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Why Web Designers (and Their Clients) Need Core Web Vitals
A website’s loading performance can make the difference between a site that engages visitors and a site that disenchants them. Learn how to optimize Core Web Vitals to create site experiences with better UX and accessibility.
Web Design for Ecommerce: Conversion-Boosting Strategies
Gain knowledge on how to improve ecommerce websites through design that boosts conversion rates. Circle member Kristine Neil provides practical tips on impactful product displays, checkout experiences, and more.
How to Build a Nonprofit Website That Stands Out
According to Squarespace Circle's State of the Web Design Industry report, nonprofits and community organizations were the top industry served by Circle members. Learn how to build impactful nonprofit sites.
New Year, New Portfolio: Updates for 2025
A portfolio is a web designer’s greatest asset. Sophia Ojha recommends ways you can refresh your portfolio for 2025.
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.
Which 2025 Design Trend Are You?
As you make resolutions to be healthier, happier, or more financially savvy in 2025, you should also resolve to update your go-to web design aesthetic for the year ahead. Take our quiz to discover which one best fits your personality.
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!
Last-Minute Holiday Website Design Ideas to Delight Visitors
The holidays are just around the corner, and some clients may have waited until the last minute to request your web design expertise. No need to stress—here are 13 festive tweaks you can quickly implement to get their sites holiday-ready.
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.
Every Website Is an Ecommerce Site: A Look at Digital Commerce with Squarespace
Discover why every website is technically an ecommerce and how Squarespace provides the best platform for service sellers and product sellers alike. Learn about key features to sell services and products seamlessly.
How Web Designers Can Prepare Sites for Giving Tuesday and Beyond
Uncover effective techniques for maximizing donations on your client's website. Gain practical knowledge to help your clients make the most of the Giving Tuesday opportunity.
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.