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Squarespace Development

Squarespace Sites That Stay Designed on Every Page

When what you sell is taste — photographs, interiors, food, a treatment room, a portfolio of built work — the site is the sample. A visitor decides in about a second whether you are worth the price you charge, and inconsistent type, drifting spacing and eight shades of the same grey answer that question badly. Squarespace enforces the consistency that a small budget usually cannot buy.

From $200/projectSee what is included

Free proposal · No contracts over 30 days · Reply within one business day

0%Of builds started on Squarespace 7.1, where restyling never means rebuilding
0/100Median Lighthouse accessibility score on delivered Squarespace sites
0+Reusable saved sections in a typical build, so later pages get assembled
Medians across our client base, not best cases. Your baseline and market decide what is realistic — we model that during discovery.
What you get

Everything Included in Squarespace Development

No vague retainers. Here is exactly what lands, and what it is for.

01

Site Styles Set First

Type scale, colour themes, button styles and section spacing are defined in Site Styles before any page is laid out. Every section then inherits them, so a later brand change is one edit rather than ninety.

02

Custom Fluid Engine Sections

Sections built on the Fluid Engine grid rather than dropped in from a stock template. Fluid Engine gives mobile its own grid, so every section is rebuilt at phone width instead of trusted to stack.

03

Portfolio and Gallery Pages

Portfolio pages, index layouts, gallery sections and lightboxes configured against your actual images. Squarespace generates the responsive sizes, so a 4000-pixel photograph does not arrive on a phone at full weight.

04

Forms, Bookings and Integrations

Form blocks with the fields you actually need, routed to your inbox and to a CRM or Google Sheet. Acuity Scheduling for appointment businesses, plus GA4, Meta Pixel and Zapier where automation is required.

05

SEO Setup Inside Squarespace

Page titles and descriptions written to length, clean slugs, URL mappings for every old address, structured data added through code injection, and the generated sitemap submitted to Search Console before launch.

06

Ownership and Permission Levels

A Squarespace build begins life as a trial site belonging to whoever opened it, so the first job is putting that account in your name and on your billing before the design starts. We then sit at Administrator, never Owner — a level you revoke in two clicks. Handover is the saved section library plus a recorded walkthrough.

How it runs

A repeatable sequence, not improvisation

Tools we run this on

Licences are included in the retainer unless noted otherwise.

Squarespace 7.1Fluid EngineSquarespace Site StylesAcuity SchedulingSquarespace CommerceCustom CSS & Code InjectionAdobe FontsZapierGA4Google Search Console
When this is the right answer

Situations we build this for

The brief we get most often, and why this service rather than another one.

The Site Is the Portfolio

Photographers, architects and interior designers are judged on presentation before price. Squarespace gallery and portfolio layouts display large images well without anybody building and maintaining an image pipeline.

Brand Guidelines the Site Ignores

You paid for a logo, a palette and a typeface, and the website uses none of them consistently. Site Styles encodes the brand once, so pages built later cannot drift away from it.

Appointments Are the Business

A studio, clinic or salon booking through direct messages and phone tag. Acuity Scheduling is Squarespace's own booking product, so availability, intake forms, deposits and reminders sit inside the same site.

Stranded on Squarespace 7.0

On the older platform, changing template meant rebuilding the site, so most 7.0 sites froze years ago. We rebuild on 7.1, where a restyle no longer means starting again, and carry the URLs across.

Projects we handle
  • Photography and portfolio sites
  • Architecture and interior design studios
  • Restaurant, cafe and menu sites
  • Wedding and event business sites
  • Small business brochure sites
  • Acuity booking sites for clinics, salons and studios
  • Squarespace Commerce catalogues for small product ranges
  • Member areas and course sites
  • Squarespace 7.0 to 7.1 rebuilds
What it changes

Why businesses buy this

Not adjectives — the mechanism behind each one.

Consistency Is Enforced

The type scale, colour themes and spacing live in Site Styles rather than on individual blocks. A page added in month eight inherits the design instead of approximating it.

Images Serve Themselves

Squarespace generates responsive image sets and serves the size the device needs. On a hand-built site that is a pipeline somebody maintains; here it is the platform's job, not a line item.

Typography Without an Art Director

Font pairings, a global type scale and Adobe Fonts are built into the editor, so headings, body copy and captions hold their proportions at every breakpoint without anybody redesigning them.

No Update Window, and No Choice

Squarespace ships platform changes to every site at once, so there is no core to patch and no maintenance slot to book. The same mechanism means you inherit changes you did not ask for — the 7.0 to 7.1 rewrite was exactly that — and that is the honest cost of not owning the stack.

Pricing

Squarespace DevelopmentStarting From $200

Starting prices are based on basic project requirements. Final pricing depends on scope, features, integrations, number of pages, functionality and specific business requirements.

  • 30-day terms, no long lock-in
  • You own every asset and account
  • Scope and price in writing first
Right fit

Your work is visual and the site has to look designed

If that sounds like you, the free proposal will tell you what we would do first and roughly what it costs — before anyone asks for a card.

Get a free proposal
Not a fit

You need server-side logic or a large product catalogue

We will say so on the first call rather than four months in. If something else on the list would serve you better, we will point at it.

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Client Stories

Experiences Shared By Our Clients

Eight in ten of our clients came from a referral by one of the others.

Their team elevated our brand social presence with creative, consistent, and engaging content. Our audience engagement and brand recognition grew faster than we expected. As they promised us, we are fully satisfied.

Maria JB

Brand Owner · Retail Brand

Social Media Marketing

Client names published with permission. Full case studies available on request.

Questions

Squarespace Development FAQs

Both start at $200, so it is not price. Squarespace wins when the site is judged on how it looks — a portfolio, a studio, a restaurant, anything brand-led — because its global styles make inconsistency hard. Wix wins when you need bookings, a small shop and low-level code hooks in one place, because Velo gives you scripting that Squarespace has no equivalent of. Choose on which constraint you would rather live with.

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Ready when you are

Ready to get started with Squarespace Development?

Squarespace design and build for businesses whose work is visual — global type and colour styles that keep every page consistent, in your own account.

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