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Squarespace Tips & Client Systems for Web Designers & Service Providers
Detailed tutorials, shared client systems, pricing tips, and tool reviews for solo service providers and web designers who want less hustle &/or overwhelm.
If you’ve been at this Squarespace thing long enough to feel pretty comfortable using the platform, then you might be at the point where you want to be able to do some things a little different than the template allows.
Or, maybe you’re just a “think outside the bun” kinda girl and you want to jazz it up a bit. Get it further away from the template than you otherwise could if you knew some code.
Yeah, me too. Been there, done that & I’m not a developer; I’m a designer.
And if you’re here reading this, I’m guessing you are too.
Plugins (mostly CSS) will be your new best friend, just don’t use too many at one time… it can become confusing.
I’m sharing my trusted resources for these here, so keep reading!
9 things to update on your website, at least once a year
5 Tips to Master Responsive Design on Fluid Engine
3 best practices for easy mobile responsive designs in Fluid Engine
The Importance of Mobile Optimization on Squarespace Websites, guest post by Henry Purchase
BEST FEATURES on Squarespace’s Fluid Engine Editor (2024)
Fluid Engine Update: Love it or Hate it?
6 tips for using Fluid Engine in Squarespace (or not)
3 ways to preview your site on other devices and screen sizes
How to optimize your Squarespace website for mobile screens
Unlike Showit and Wix, Squarespace doesn’t let you separately alter your design for mobile size screens. That’s both a great thing and an irritation, tbh.
Great because: you’re not designing anything twice; it’s all automatic.
Not great because: it’s all automatic & you have no specific control how the design reacts on mobile without custom code.
So how do Squarespace designers deal with this problem?
How to keep the mobile style menu on desktop
How to get device screenshots for digital mockups
Are you manually taking a screenshot from your tablet/phone/laptop/desktop to get these kinds of screenshots? Are you piecing together multiple pages yourself to get the full page? 🤦🏼♀️
There’s a much better way, thankfully. It’s not hard, or lengthy, or terribly complicated, so let’s walk through it.
5 quick tips for beginners in Squarespace
CHEATSHEET & TEMPLATES
File & format terminologies & size ranges, resource lists, and pre-sized blank Canva templates for various image ratios.
Katelyn, here!
I’m the Founder, Owner, CEO, Designer & Educator at Launch the Damn Thing® and I love coffee, cursing & carefully laid plans. 😂 (Also reading, blaring loud music, and teaching, –but those didn’t fit into my nice alliteration!)
Did I just totally make your day? #goals

