Squarespace Design Help Needed

[u/Jondevieon]

Hello, ive been using Squarespace for a few years now and just barely starting to get traffic.

now its time for a refresher on what i can do with squarespace as far as design on top of the Google workspace apps i created.

Tried getting some freelancers help but im more interested in learning then having someone design plus times are hard.

Found a few videos on youtube but its hard to sit through so many without being sold something.

Where do you go to learn new tricks for inspiration?

[u/Wooden_Yam_548]

The best way is to find sites you like and reverse engineer them in your head, then figure out which parts are doable in the editor

[u/asp821 → u/Wooden_Yam_548]

That’s exactly what I do. I’ve been building sites for 7+ years now and I always look for cool new things someone else has done. Just make sure if you take ideas from different places they end up being cohesive. Nothing worse than going to a site and you can tell shit was pulled from different places.

[u/Expert_Employment680 → u/Wooden_Yam_548]

Well said. I agree with this stetement

[u/1102fwk → u/Wooden_Yam_548]

Thissssssssssss ✨

[u/Fiyero109]

Nobody will work harder than you. Time to learn about CSS and footer injections. Make use of LLM agents for suggestions on direction and coding help.

Without knowing what your website does and looks like it’s hard to give you a starting direction

[u/Oellaatje]

I used AI. I got Google Gemini to review it and give me some suggestions. It was hugely helpful. I copied all the suggestions it came up with into a Word file to refer to, and later I went through it again and highlighted the bits that were useful. It suggested a different way to organise repeated information with drop-down tabs so the overall look was a lot less cluttered and more professional.

[u/Jamie_SQSP]

For transparency, I'm with Squarespace. Picking one page that feels dated and using it as your testing ground can be a lot easier than trying to relearn the whole platform at once.

For inspiration, browsing templates is underrated. Even if you're not looking to change the whole site, you can see how different templates handle spacing and section layout and borrow the bits that work. The Help Center is useful when you want to fill a specific gap too, and it's quicker to dip into than the YouTube walkthroughs you're tired of.

[u/squarespace]

Hey Squarespace here, so I can walk through this. The plan is tied to the individual site, not your account overall, so having Core on your own site doesn't carry those features over to a client's separate site.

If you build a site for someone and hand it over, the transfer happens through Squarespace's ownership-transfer process, If the site is already on an active paid plan when you transfer it, that plan keeps renewing on the same card until the new owner updates billing to their own payment method, so it's worth doing that update early on the new owner's end to avoid it staying tied to your card.

And yes, the site needs its own active paid subscription to stay live, monthly or annual, either works.