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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!
8 Powerful Mindset Shifts for a Successful Web Design Business
Being a successful web designer isn’t just about what you do—it’s also about how you think. Sophia Ohja shares eight mindset shifts that can help professional designers find more creative satisfaction and build greater financial success.
How to Become a Web Designer in 2026
Squarespace helps brings a focus on world-class design to every aspect of running a business. Learn more about becoming a Squarespace web designer.
How to Find New Web Design Clients in 2026
As a web designer, it is essential that you find new clients so you can continue growing your business. Read our top tips for finding new clients to work with in 2025.
How to Prepare Your Web Design Business for Success in 2026
Staying ahead of the curve is crucial for professional web designers aiming for success in 2025. Learn how to prepare for the year ahead with proven strategies aimed to help web design businesses thrive.
How to Engage Your Audience with Holiday Storytelling
Holiday storytelling isn't just about sales—it's about creating a deeper connection that lasts beyond the season. Learn how to engage your audience and create timely content.
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.
How to Grow Your Web Design Business Through Blogging
Learn key steps for blogging as a web designer. Explore practical tips and strategies to craft compelling blog posts that resonate with your audience.
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.
Successful Squarespace Designer Secrets: What They Do Differently
Web designer and online business educator Paige Brunton leads an insightful seminar on what some of the highest-performing web designers do. Uncover the real-life strategies and unique web design offerings of her most accomplished students to gain actionable inspiration for elevating your own practice.
Feed the Funnel: Creating Your Content Flywheel
Explore how to effectively and efficiently integrate email marketing, video content, podcasts, and more into your online presence to drive more traffic to your business. Gain actionable insights to create a realistic, evergreen, and self-sustaining content ecosystem to drive continuous client engagement and growth.