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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!
BTS: How Two Design Nerds Created the Squarely Speaking Podcast🎙️
CRM vs Client Portal: Why Freelancers Need BOTH in 2025
Transferring vs. Connecting a Domain: What You Need to Know
Squarespace Website Template Strategies & Insider Tips
How to find clients without social media, with guest Paige Brunton
Web Designers AMA: Client Processes & Boundaries with Katelyn Dekle & Diane Whiddon
10 Common Mistakes New Web Designers Make, with Paige Brunton
Flodesk vs Kit: How to Set Up Subscriber Preferences & Link Actions
“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
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

