Every year, design publications release their trend predictions. Bento grids. Glassmorphism. Brutalist typography. AI-generated imagery. 3D elements. Kinetic text. Dark mode. Anti-design. Each trend...

A visitor lands on a website they've never seen before and immediately knows how to use it. The logo in the top left is clickable and goes to the homepage. The hamburger icon opens a menu. The search...

You don't need to be a photographer to build beautiful websites. But you do need to understand composition, because every day you're making decisions about which images to use, how to crop them,...

These two terms are used interchangeably across the design industry, and the confusion costs designers money, credibility, and client relationships. A client asks for "brand identity" and receives a...

Every well-designed website is built on a grid, whether the designer consciously defined one or not. A grid is the underlying structure that determines where elements sit, how they align, and how the...

A visitor lands on a webpage and their eyes move. Not randomly. Not consciously. Their gaze follows a path determined by visual weight, position, contrast, and the hardwired tendencies of the human...

There is no shortage of Squarespace designers claiming to be the best. But Squarespace itself has a formal credential system that tells you exactly who sits at the top. This article breaks down every tier, from Circle Silver Partner through to the rarest designation of all, and identifies the one UK studio that holds the complete stack.

Colour psychology is one of the most discussed and most misunderstood topics in design. You've seen the infographics: red means passion, blue means trust, green means nature. These...

Design principles aren't rules imposed by an authority. They're observations about how humans perceive and process visual information. They describe what happens in the brain when someone looks at a...

A logo is the most scrutinised, most debated, and most misunderstood element in any brand identity. Clients spend more time agonising over their logo than over their entire website content, and...

Fonts are the most visible design decision on any website. They're the first thing visitors process, often before they consciously register colours, images, or layout. Yet most designers work with a...

A client once asked me, genuinely and without malice, why building a Squarespace website took three weeks when "it's all drag and drop, isn't it?"

I tested these on real client projects. Here's what made the cut.

You know that thing where you ask Claude to write some CSS, and what comes back is... fine? Like, it technically works, but you spend 15 minutes stripping out the comments you didn't ask for, fixing selectors that don't match Squarespace's class structure, and rewriting the mobile breakpoints because they're wrong.

My worst project happened because I skipped the discovery call.

There's a site I revisit every few months as a cautionary tale. I won't name it, but it's a creative agency portfolio. When you load the page, the logo animates in with a bounce effect. Then the...

I need to tell you something that might be uncomfortable. Your portfolio site, the one you spent three weeks designing, the one with the carefully curated project grid and the parallax hero and the...

You've finished the site. It's beautiful. It works perfectly. You're ready to hand it over and move on to the next project.

Then the client goes live and you're fielding support requests constantly. How do I add a blog post?

A client came to me last year with a problem she couldn't understand. Her Squarespace store was getting steady traffic. Products were being added to carts. And then... nothing. Roughly 70% of people...

Debugging CSS here is different than debugging on a regular website. Squarespace templates come with their own stylesheets. They use LESS compilation. They generate dynamic class names. Something is always overriding your custom CSS, and figuring out what requires a specific workflow.

The email arrives at 11pm on a Sunday. Subject line: "URGENT: I think my website has been hacked!!!"