Fully-custom Squarespace website

• With a semi-custom website, you choose one of my pre-designed Squarespace templates and I customise it for you, adding your content and adjusting the design to suit. This includes things like changing the fonts and colours, adding or removing sections, or changing image layouts to better suit your images. The final website will look different to the template, but will still follow the same structure and layout. This is the most cost-effective and quickest option.

• With a fully-custom website, I will start from scratch to design a completely unique website that meets your needs. We will spend more time exploring your requirements and your business goals and looking at inspiration. Choose this option if none of the templates are suitable for your content or business, or you don’t like the designs or layouts, or if you want to have something that is completely unique to you. This option costs more than the semi-custom website as it takes longer to create.

I work solely on the Squarespace platform.

I chose this specifically as it is easy and intuitive to use, so customers can update their websites themselves after launch, without needing to pay me to do it for them (unless they want to, of course).

Squarespace also keep everything updated, so there are no updates to install.

It is a joy to design in and there is a lovely community of users who share their knowledge generously and are always happy to help others.

Yes, I require staged payments throughout the project, as follows: a 30% deposit upfront to book in your dates, then another 30% when I start building your website, then the final 40% when I have completed your website.

That’s not a problem. I can create a new website for you and we can switch your domain over to the new website when we are ready to go live.

If you already have a Squarespace website, you will need to take out a new subscription when we make your new site live (you get a 20% discount for your first year) and you will then need to cancel the subscription for your old website.

You can purchase a domain through Squarespace (your first year is free) or via another provider. I would recommend doing this very early on in the process to ensure all your branding is aligned. I can help you with this.

I can create a simple work-mark logo for you and choose fonts and colours that represent your brand for a small additional fee. See Optional Add-ons above.

I can source stock photos for you for a small fee, plus the cost of licensing the photos (this is usually about £7 per photo). See Optional Add-ons above. However, I would strongly recommend getting some professional headshots done for your website, as photos can make or break a website. I can recommend a photographer in your area if needed.

No, I’m not a copywriter, but I can recommend some good copywriters and some courses to help you learn how to do this yourself. I will also provide you with some content templates, which break down each page into manageable chunks with helpful pointers about the content needed for each section.

It depends on my work queue and on how quickly you can provide the content. We will discuss dates and availability in our discovery call.

We will discuss potential dates during our initial discovery call.

Once you have confirmed you want to proceed and have signed the contract, we will lock in those dates and have a strategy call, usually within a week, to discuss and agree all the content and pages needed.

You will then have a period of time to create your content, this could be weeks or months, depending on the dates we have agreed.

Once you have supplied your content, the build usually takes a few weeks. The time varies depending on the length and complexity of your content and any extras you have requested.

The reason I work with the Squarespace platform is that it is very easy to use, so you will be able to update your website yourself. I will provide you with some training videos showing you how to update your website.

If you don’t want to do it yourself, you can also book me by the hour to do it for you.

In addition to the one-off cost of me designing and building your website for you, you will need to pay an annual or monthly hosting charge to Squarespace. If you use your website to sell products, you will need to pay a payment processing fee (this depends on the processor you use, e.g. Stripe or Squarespace Payments) and a transaction fee. You will also need to pay for your domain name (usually annually), plus the cost of any custom fonts, stock photos or third-party plugins, if you have used these.