7 Premium Squarespace Template Designers You May Not Know
Squarespace offers some great free templates to get your website going, and that is one of the many reasons that we love them. But, if you are looking for a template created specifically for the business you are in, you also have lots of premium Squarespace templates to choose from.
Premium templates are created by independent web designers to run on the Squarespace platform, and they are most often designed for specific industries, clients, or purposes. The advantage this offers is that the designer usually knows the details of the business, and tailors the template to fit perfectly.
The other huge bonus that generally comes with purchasing a premium template is all the support you receive. Premium template designers recognize that their clients aren’t developers, designers, or web professionals, and they take that into consideration when putting together training videos, written guides, and all the other materials you will need to get your website up and running. Plus, if you get into a bind when building your new website, most premium template designers offer customer support that you can access. How great is that: talking to the people who actually built your template and organized the content flow if you need some help.
Premium Squarespace templates give you a big head start in creating your website, but they aren’t available directly on the Squarespace site, so you have to look for them online. Since each designer tends to create for a very specific community, sometimes finding the perfect match can be tricky. So, we all try to spread the news when we discover another premium Squrespace designer who is doing really great work.
Here are seven premium Squarespace template designers that are incredible at what they do, and haven’t gotten the attention they deserve.
Oak&Keys
women in real estate
If you are a woman working real estate, you should check out what Oak&Keys has to offer. Their entire business is geared toward women in all parts of the real estate industry. Not only do they have Squarespace templates created for flipping houses and renting an Airbnb, they also have numerous articles, guides, and other resources discussing buying, selling, renting, flipping, and real estate investment.
Most Oak&Keys templates cost $249. They also offer additional services should you need some additional help after you purchase a template.
StorySite
StoryBrand templates
Looking to create a Squarespace website built around the StoryBrand framework? StorySite creates Squarespace templates for just such an occasion. The StoryBrand framework is method of creating brand messaging that makes the client the hero of the marketing story, rather than the business or the product. It can help businesses understand how to communicate clear and effective messaging to potential clients in a way that generates results. StorySite is all in on StoryBrand and all of their templates follow the StoryBrand formula.
StorySite templates currently cost $299. In addition, StorySite will build out your website on the template you purchase from them for an additional fee.
melissa rae studio
therapists
Melissa Rae started her career as a social worker, and then went into private practice in therapy. After building out her own website, other therapist started asking for her help with their own. Turns out, she really liked making websites for other people and a new business was born.
Melissa offers templates designed just for therapists with an insight into the profession that few other designers have. Melissa has a free template available, and paid templates start at $549. She will also help you build out your website with a template, or build a custom website from scratch.
Pearler
radically bold design
Pearler describes their templates as “Boujee websites that young-blooded people just get.” These are bold, vibrant, high-contrast templates for an obviously younger audience. Pearler is an Australian company that caters to modern solopreneurs and small business owners. Pearler templates are stylistically distinct from other Squarespace designs with fabulously unconventional color, motion, and typography.
Template prices range from AU$199 - $549 (that’s around $120 - $330 USD). Pearler also provides custom designed websites starting a just under AU$7,000.
The Simple Site Shop
wedding professionals
The Simple Site Shop creates affordable Squarespace templates for wedding industry professionals. With soft color palettes, delicate script fonts, and lots of room for beautiful photography, the templates provide the elegance you would expect in a wedding-focused website. Simple Site Shop templates are perfect for wedding photographers, florists, wedding venues, and wedding planners.
Templates start at $150. The Simple Site Shop also offers small custom websites as well.
Swayed
grass roots politics
Based in New Orleans, Swayed is a digital design agency that works with underdog politicians to build campaign websites. They are working to make it easy for regular people to run for office without spending a fortune on their website. (Billionaire industrialists need not apply.) Swayed works a bit differently than most template shops, in that they build your website out once you buy a template and send them all of the content and imagery needed. However, they are working on some DYI templates to broaden their offerings.
Prices start at $1,749 and websites take about a week to put together.
Low Tide
limited edition templates
Low Tide is an Athens, Georgia based design agency providing branding, package design, and website design services. They also offer limited edition Squarespace templates from time to time. What does that mean? Each limited edition template will be sold between 10 - 20 times each and then retired. This is a great way of getting a website that won’t look like thousands of other sites that were built from the same template, while still not spending the money on a custom site.
Prices for the Low Tide limited edition Squarespace templates start at $1,250.
