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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!
10 Common Mistakes New Web Designers Make, with Paige Brunton
“I hate marketing” & other reasons you business isn’t growing
“I don’t know enough yet” & other lies that hold us back from success
Trademarking My Business Name: My Experience
From Graphic Designer to Side Hustler, to Full-time Business Owner: My Story
How & why to turn down ‘bad-fit’ clients or projects
Client Gifts: How, What, When, Where & Why to Send Them
Building an impactful community with both free & paid resources
How does DIY content attract paying clients or customers?
The Fastest, Easiest Way to Make $100k/year (Guest: Paige Brunton)
What content do you put on your DIY website??
Color Palettes & …Brand Personality?
The secret to creating “Pretty” short links on Squarespace (for free)
Flodesk vs Kit in 2026
WTF: Corporate Transparency Act + Google & Yahoo’s anti-spam changes
3 basic pricing methods + learn how to pay yourself!
Year in Review: What worked & what didn’t in 2023?
25 last-minute Christmas gift ideas for designers &/or our clients
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

