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Squarespace needs to stop hosting white supremacist websites–now.
Awards aren’t as awesome as happy clients, but they sure are nice! I’m super thrilled to announce that the website I designed for the awesome doctors of Duet Plastic Surgery (which included a slick brand overhaul) recently won a Gold Hermes Award from the Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals. Cool, right?
In this video tutorial, I’ll show you how to resize and opimize all your Squarespace website’s images with one click using Photoshop CC.
What are common mistakes people make when designing for Squarespace?
Digging these back out, I found three that my students referred to over and over again.
I love this all-business approach to websites for creative folks. With this outline, we put the work at the center of the site, using it as the key visual on the homepage. Here’s what this site outline, sweet and simple, looks like:
There’s a lot to think about and since I have taught who knows how many students in my online portfolio class, trained loads of DIYers and created Squarespace portfolios for many artists, I’ve learned a lot about the dos and don’ts of creating a professional web portfolio.
One of the things I talk to my clients about a whole lot is what their sites can and cannot do. This depends on a whole lot of factors, including template choice, technical skills and, yes, the platform you’re working with. One thing I’m very clear with each new client who’s fallen in love with Squarespace thanks to the ease of creating content is what the system cannot do.
As Squarespace has grown like wild over the last couple of years, my inbox is flooded with folks who want to launch online stores on the system. As a Squarespace Specialist and someone who’s launched loads of stores on this system, this is good news for me. However, as often as I receive inquiries that are a good fit for Squarespace’s commerce system, I receive inquiries from folks who would be better served by a system other than what Squarespace offers in terms of Commerce.
Yes, I said it: Squarespace isn’t the best solution for all online stores.
Squarespace portfolio design featured on Design Milk.
A temporary, parallax single-page Squarespace website for Greensavers, a local Portland energy efficiency company.
Should you work with a Squarespace Specialist to design your new website? Even DIYers can benefit from some solid advice from an expert.
It’s been a year since we worked together, and I just looked at my numbers: my traffic has increased 900% and my revenue doubled!
– Consulting Client –
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