Custom Squarespace Website Design
We’ll collaborate to create a website that showcases your business in a way that connects with your audience that you can’t wait to show off!
“Kirsty has been a dream to work with. Every aspect of the project has been organised, communication was easy, the video tutorials are super helpful and you’ve taken our vision on board to create something that will work really well for us. Thank you so much!”
Grow your business with an engaging & easy-to-manage website
Your business deserves a smart, strategic website that reflects your business, connects with your ideal clients and, ultimately, helps to grow your business.
You should have the confidence and tools to use your website as a tool to engage with your audience and build your community.
Your Squarespace Website Project
What’s included?
A fully customised, bespoke website tailored specifically to your business and your target customer
Content planning guide that will walk you through writing the text for your website
5 designed and fully custom pages - eg. home, about, contact, blog, services (with the option to add more)
Custom coding, icons, backgrounds, headers & buttons to make your website look cohesive and really stand out
Personalised tutorial videos that will allow you to maintain and update your own website
Integration to your existing social media accounts
Connection with an existing email marketing platform
Mobile compatible & accessible design
Basic SEO set-up and optimisation
25% discount on your annual Squarespace subscription
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Before we start your project I will ask you to complete some homework. This will consist of gathering together and branding information for your business, images and text.
Don’t panic about this task! I have a welcome pack and copywriting guide that will walk you through the next steps and writing the text for your site.
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Project Cost: from £2500 - 20% is due to confirm your project when the contract is signed, the following 40% is due at the start of the project with the final 40% at project completion.
Timescale: Projects typically take around 3-6 weeks depending on complexity of design from the start date to going live.
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If you need anything extra included with your website package, let me know in our discovery call and we can chat about it.
I offer the following add-ons for an additional fee:
Member Area: £300
Course set-up: £300
Squarespace Campaigns set-up: £200
Scheduling set-up: £300
eCommerce: from £500
Additional pages: from £80
“I would not hesitate to recommend Kirsty to anyone looking for help with their website. She was easy to work with, prompt with replies and never once complained about my never ending indecisiveness! She took initiative when required but remained faithful to my original brief. Thank you Kirsty. 5/5!”
What to expect during your project
1. Get to know each other
The first step is to set up a free consultation call, for us to chat about your project to be sure we are the right fit to work together. Following the call we will get your spot booked in my calendar and I will send you the proposal, contract and invoice for the deposit.
2. Some prep work
I will set up your project and you will be given access to the client portal, our shared Asana board and Google Drive. Here you will use my content homework document to guide you through pulling together your branding, text and images for the site.
3. I get to work
Now it’s my time to get to work. I'll read through everything you've given me, research your business niche and use all of this information to mock-up a homepage for your new website. You will be able to review and comment, let me know what you love or don't and once you're happy with the homepage I'll move on to the rest of the site.
4. Finalising the details
Next, I work through the remaining pages on your site, asking for feedback from you at various points throughout the build.
5. Time to launch
Once you're absolutely delighted with the website, I will prepare the handover package, including personalised tutorial videos and any new graphics created. Now we connect your web address, hit publish and you're live!
Why Squarespace?
Your website will be build on my favourite builder, Squarespace.
Squarespace is my favourite platform for small business websites. It’s a user-friendly all-in-one platform that will be super simple for you to manage and maintain yourself once our project is complete (especially with the custom tutorial library you will get at handover!).
Answering your questions
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I use (and love) Squarespace for all of my website. I go into detail in this blog post about why I love it so much, but the short answer is that it is extremely user friendly for my clients to use after I hand the site over to them. It also allows me the creative freedom to create a beautiful bespoke website that can be strategic, smart but simple to use.
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As I mentioned, hosting is provided through Squarespace and will be s paid directly to them. You can may monthly or annually and with the annual package you will receive a free domain (website address) and as I am a member of the Squarespace Circle, I can offer you a 20% discount on your first year. For current Squarespace pricing, click here.
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Yes. If you have an existing website with a blog I can transfer this across to your new website.
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Payment is made in 3 instalments. An initial deposit is taken at booking to secure your place in my diary, a further 40% is due at the start of the project with the final 40% due once the website is complete, prior to project handover.
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If you don't have any type of branding or styling set for your business yet, I am happy to pull together a simple Website Style Palette for us to use throughout the project. This will consist of two fonts - one for your headings and one for paragraph text - and around five colours that are selected with website usability in mind.
This branding upgrade will cost £250 and will add around one week to your project. You will receive a style palette that will include the font and colour names so you can use them in your business going forward.
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Yes! I would never leave my clients high and dry with a website they are scared to touch. The best way to build your Google ranking is through an active and up to date website so I want you to feel confident in managing your own website.
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From your start date it will take around 4 weeks to completion. Before we start I will ask you to gather together your text, images and logo/brand information so when that start date arrives, we're ready to dive straight in!
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Before the project start date you will have a bit of homework to do. That will consist of sharing text, images and your branding with me.
I have a Website Copy Guide that I will share with you, which will walk you through writing the text for each of the pages on your website.
We'll use a shared Google Drive as a place to store all of your information and we'll communicate throughout the project using Asana
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Yes! We can chat about what you will need from the website on your enquiry call. Standard pages can be added from £80 per page.
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All websites require a cookie and privacy policy. Including terms of use page for website users and if you have an online shop, conditions and shipping policies are also advisable. As these are legal documents I can't provide these for you but I will share a Legal Pages guide with you that includes a list of requirements and resources for free and paid templates you can use.
