What are Squarespace Website Templates & How Do They Work?
For those just starting with Squarespace, lets start with some basics.
What is a Squarespace website template?
Squarespace websites are based on templates which help to define the layout, style and functionality of the website. Within Squarespace there are some free templates that are offered that have different layouts and attributes.
When you select a template you are selecting a structure to work with that you can insert your own pictures and text into that you can make uniquely yours. Remember even the logo, fonts and colors can be updated to match your business and brand!
What are the benefits of choosing a custom Squarespace Website Template?
The benefit of choosing a custom Squarespace website template over a free template is that the designer of the template has taken the time to consider the needs of your particular business area or a business in general and has already added a number of pages that are essential to include for a small to medium sized business. They have taken the time to make sure that all the elements align correctly on mobile and have created an aesthetically pleasing header, footer and page layouts, as well as prepared the pages for additional functionality such as a Contact page for service enquiries, Appointment Bookings or even the start of an ecommerce section of the website.
As this is a cheaper DIY option to get a professional looking website, tutorials are provided so that you can update the fonts, logo, images and colors to suite your business. This is a near ready website template, that just needs your text, images and logo to go live.
Benefits of Choosing A Custom Squarespace Website Template
I’ve outlined some of the Pros and Cons of website templates so that you can decide whether this is the right option for you and your business and whether it will meet your business needs.
Pros:
Save Money: Get A Professional finish with a website template at a fraction of the cost of a custom website design package. There is the opportunity to save a lot of money with a custom template. Most templates are in the range of US$200-US$500 per template. Even a 1 page website design package can start at US$1500 and upwards and a multi-page custom website design package will easily be anywhere upwards in price from US$2,500 if you are going with an experienced website designer. This price could be more for a larger website or a website with booking or ecommerce functionality included.
Save Time: Save time by having and almost ‘ready-to-go’ framework. Website templates are a quick and easy way to get your website off the ground, live and running in no time. Going the DIY route with a free template can be tricky if you have little to no experience designing websites and you may run into issues with aligning things on mobile or tweaking certain areas of the website to get them just right which can take hours of time. Save yourself time and reduce your stress levels by choosing something that you know is going to suit your business needs before spending hours of frustration down the DIY route only to find that your business website is not what you envisioned it would be!
Have Access to Support: With each custom website template Monarch Website Templates offers email support and guidance via messages and tutorials. We want happy customers and to be sure that you end up with a website at the end of the day that you are proud to show off to family, friends and potential customers! When you purchase a custom template you will also be provided with the training (through custom video tutorials) and support (via our customer service) to get your business website to where it needs to be!
Need a new website but Don’t have the budget for a designer?
A good web designer can cost between $2,500-$10,000.
Why not create your own website for $250-$500 using our pre-built professional Squarespace website templates?
All our website templates come with easy-to-follow instructional videos which show you how to upload your colors, fonts, logo and copy to make the template on-brand for your business.
What are the benefits of choosing Squarespace over Another Website Platform?
Squarespace is incredibly easy to manage and update and has a lot of advantages compared to other website platforms such as more complex platforms such as Wordpress. There isn’t custom code that you need to change and there are editable blocks that allow you to change the text and images.
Benefits:
Squarespace is An Easy To Use DIY Platform: Easy to DIY as a business owner, make small changes yourself and save on future web developer fees. With other website builders it can be really hard to make small changes and adjustments resulting in ongoing developer fees just to update your website.
Save on Future Developer Fees: It might surprise you, but even some larger businesses choose Squarespace as their website platform of choice due to it’s ease of use and the ability to save on costs by having internal team members being able to update the website rather than having to continually outsource small changes to a developer.
How to choose which Squarespace template will work best for your business.
Benefits:
Squarespace is An Easy To Use DIY Platform: Easy to DIY as a business owner, make small changes yourself and save on future web developer fees. With other website builders it can be really hard to make small changes and adjustments resulting in ongoing developer fees just to update your website.
Save on Future Developer Fees: It might surprise you, but even some larger businesses choose Squarespace as their website platform of choice due to it’s ease of use and the ability to save on costs by having internal team members being able to update the website rather than having to continually outsource small changes to a developer.
