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Picking a Squarespace template is not easy! Here are 5 things you need to know before you choose your Squarespace template.

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5 Things to Know About Squarespace Templates (Version 7.0)

In today’s video, I want to share with you 5 things that you need to know before you choose your Squarespace template.

If you’re new here, I’m Louise of Louisehenry.com (formerly Solopreneursidekick). I put out new videos every single week, all about making the tech in your online business easier, so, if that is something that you’re interested in, definitely hit Subscribe down below.

Let’s dive into the 5 things that you need to know. Make sure that you stick around until the end, because I’m going to be sharing with you what Squarespace template I use and what template 99.9% of professional Squarespace web designers use as well.

#1 – Any Squarespace Template Can be Customized For Your Business

The first thing is that it doesn’t matter what the Squarespace template has been designed for. For example, you’re looking at the templates and you see that one is designed for a restaurant. That really doesn’t matter. You can use any of the Squarespace templates for your business, and you’re going to customize all of that information anyway. Don’t be distracted that one is a restaurant, one is a yoga studio – none of that matters because you can customize any of the templates for you.

#2 – Change Colors, Fonts, Images

Point 2 is just a continuation of this, but basically you can change out all of the colors and fonts and images on your website. Keep that in mind – you can customize any of these for your business.

#3 – Template Families

The third thing that you need to know is that Squarespace templates are actually grouped into template families. I definitely didn’t know this when I first started, so this might be new information to you. This is going to simplify the process of choosing your template significantly, because rather than just looking at all of the templates available, you can just look at template families instead.

Basically, all templates within a Squarespace template family have the exact same functionality – they’ve just been styled differently to show you different ways that you could customize your site. Squarespace has done this for you so that you can see all of the design options available, but this can be kind of confusing, so I am tackling this issue. I’m going to be helping you choose the perfect Squarespace template for you, breaking it down by template family instead.

#4 – Template Flexibility

The next thing you need to know is that they do vary pretty heavily in flexibility. That is why I’m creating this new Squarespace template series, so that I can break it down for you and show you exactly what you can do with every single template family.

Squarespace does have a template comparison chart that breaks this all down for you, but I don’t know about you, but when I see a chart like that, my eyes glaze over. Instead, I’m going to be creating some videos for you that show you what all these features mean exactly. I’m going to be compiling all of this information into one epic blog post, so definitely click the link in the description below and you’ll see it as I start to post all of the video material. I’m going to be showing you all of the templates that are in each template family, and just overall trying to make this process as easy as possible for you.

#5 – Brine Family Templates

As I mentioned, I want to share with you the Squarespace template that I use and the template that 99.9% of all professional Squarespace web designers use, and that is Brine – or any template within the Brine family. These templates are just the best – they are the most flexible and customizable, so that is the one I use, and you’ll find everybody else seems to agree with that as well.

Again, click the link below this video – it’ll lead you to the blog post and, for now, I’m going to share with you all of the templates that are within the Brine family. You can go and check those out.

You might be wondering how do I choose out of the template family. What I recommend is that you choose the one where you like the fonts the best. I find that font pairings are the most difficult for non-designers to tackle, so, instead, I get my students in Website That Wows to just choose their template within the Brine family, and choose the one that has the fonts that they love the most. This saves them from a lot of difficult design decisions and ensures that their site looks significantly more professional than someone that didn’t have any guidance in this area.

Definitely click below to check that out. I’m going to also be releasing all of these Squarespace template review videos, so definitely subscribe to the channel so that you don’t miss those. If you have any questions at all about this, let me know in the comments. I’ll see you soon with another video.

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