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...

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...

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