I’ve been designing for clients since 2006 and if there’s a single thing I understand 1,000%, it’s that sending proofs & getting feedback can be a challenge when our clients aren’t meeting with us in-person.

And the pandemic hasn’t changed that. Prior to Covid19 & social distancing, there were plenty of people freelancing & working independently for clients all over the world, myself included.

Even video calls weren’t as great as an in-person meeting, simply for the fact that they couldn’t literally point (with their finger) directly at something in the design & comment on it.

Instead it went something like this…

If your business will primarily make money from product sales, Squarespace probably isn’t the best e-commerce platform for you. I’d recommend using Shopify, because it just works better for that level of product sales.

If your business primarily makes money from services, but you have a shop on the side for passive income, then Squarespace should work just fine & will help you keep things organized, since you won’t need 2 platforms: 1 to sell products & 1 to sell your services. Yay!

That being the case, let’s get into the nitty gritty of why I’m now recommending 7.1 over 7.0 shops.

Want to put a PDF on a page that people can download? Maybe you don’t know how to add your resume, or an opt-in?

Since Squarespace (oddly) doesn’t have a normal Media Library, it’s not obvious where to add these things, or once you’ve added them, ––where did they go?

I'll show ya how to upload files to your Squarespace site, where to find them & how to manage them.

Excuses are the WORST. Many times we don’t even realize that’s what they are.

We use them to defend ourselves.

To play victim to our situations.

To keep from having to take a risk.

To keep from getting hurt, and many other reasons.

To keep from playing big, so we won’t fail.

But if you look back on those previous 5 sentences… what’s the common thread there?

FEAR.

Are you using fear & excuses to stay stuck?

How do we overcome our fears & how do we keep fear from ruining our lives, and our businesses?

Ever wish you could just have a link to a different section on the same page? If ya click on it, it automatically scrolls to that spot for you. Fast, easy, smooth, –modern. Yeah!

This one can be a bit sneaky! It’s not hard to set up, but it’s also not obvious how.

I’ll walk you through how to set this up within a Brine template in 7.0, code free, AND in 7.1 with code, but it’s super simple & I’ll give ya the cut-and-paste code snippet so you can run with it easily.

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?