Choosing the right template

Decide which template fits your site needs and style.

Last updated October 21, 2024

The Squarespace template store offers a variety of starting points for creating a site that best presents your style, brand, and vision to the world. No matter which design you start with, your site will have all the same fonts, colors, and style tweak options as other designs.

This guide explains how to choose your starting design and how to start customizing the look of your site.

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This guide is primarily for version 7.1. To review different version 7.0 templates, visit Templates and design in version 7.0.

Tip

In addition to our guides and video tutorials, we offer two Getting Started with Squarespace webinars. In these sessions, we’ll walk you through template building with Squarespace Blueprint AI, navigating your site, domain and email options, preparing site content, building a homepage, and styling colors and fonts. Webinars typically last one hour, and you don’t need a Squarespace site or account to sign up.

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Browse designs

Visit our template store and click Preview on any design to see its demo site. Each demo site uses sample content to show an example layout and provide inspiration for your design.

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Find inspiration

Review the Squarespace Collection partnership series to discover inspiring artists and the templates they've helped shape. You can start your version 7.1 site with templates that draw from the creative works of:

Compare layouts and choose colors

Rather than focusing on the demo content, look for specific layouts that appeal to you. When you select a template, you'll choose between different color presets to get a better idea of how it could look before starting your trial.

You can change the style and layout of your site at any time, but you may find it easier to start with a design that's already close to how you want your site to appear. For example, the Dario demo site is designed for a wedding, but you could adapt it to accept RSVPs for a different type of event, or to gather pre-orders for a new product launch.

All sites share the same template, with the same features and style options. No matter which design you start with, you'll have access to every design feature on your site.

Personalize your template

To change the look of the demo site you started with, change your site's design and layout:

  • Add new pages with different pre-built page layouts.
  • Change the colors, fonts, and other global styles for your site in the site styles.
  • Add new sections to change a page’s layout. For example, you can create a page banner by adding a section with a background image to the top of a page.
  • Use section styles to override site-wide styles and give individual sections distinct looks.
  • Create custom layouts for blog posts or product items with summary blocks.

If these edits still don't change your site enough, consider starting over.

Tip

If you prefer to start a site without demo content or preset design settings, start with a blank template.

Build your own template with Squarespace Blueprint AI

To start personalizing your site immediately, build your own template with Squarespace Blueprint AI.

You'll design your template step-by-step by selecting:

  • A site title
  • A brand personality
  • A homepage
  • Sections and pages you need
  • A color palette and font pairing to style your site
  • AI-generated images from our curated library

You'll also see an optional prompt for Squarespace AI to generate descriptive text for your homepage.

Squarespace Blueprint AI is a great option if you already have a strong idea for how your site should look.

Note

Squarespace Blueprint AI is only available on computers and isn't supported on mobile devices.

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