Squarespace Website Design
Custom-Built, Mobile-Ready Squarespace Websites From $995
Squarespace has become one of the most popular website platforms for small businesses, creatives, and service providers who want a polished, professional-looking site without the technical headaches of custom-coded development. Diverse Website Design builds and customises Squarespace websites for Australian businesses, combining the platform’s clean design templates with hands-on strategy, copywriting, and search optimisation — so your site doesn’t just look good, it actually brings in enquiries.
What Makes Squarespace Different
Unlike a fully custom-coded website, Squarespace is a hosted, all-in-one platform: hosting, security, and updates are handled for you, and the drag-and-drop editor means you can log in and make changes yourself without touching code. It’s a strong fit for:
- Service businesses that want a clean, brochure-style site
- Photographers, designers, and creatives who need strong visual layouts
- Small retailers who want simple built-in online store functionality
- Businesses that want to manage their own content after launch, without relying on a developer for every small change
Where Squarespace can fall short is in the setup — the default templates are generic until someone with design experience customises the fonts, spacing, colour system, and mobile layout. That’s the part we specialise in.
What's Included
- Custom Squarespace design (not a generic template)
- Mobile-responsive layout across phone, tablet, and desktop
- On-page SEO setup (titles, meta descriptions, image alt text, heading structure)
- Built-in contact forms
- Business email account setup
- Social media integration
- Built-in blog functionality
- Full content management access — update text, images, and pages yourself, any time
Our Squarespace Web Design Process
- Discovery call — we talk through your business, your competitors, and what the site needs to achieve (bookings, enquiries, online sales).
- Custom design — we select and rebuild a Squarespace template around your brand, rather than using it “out of the box.” Typically takes around 2 days for the first draft.
- Build and content — your pages, images, and copy go in, along with contact forms, business email setup, and social integration. Full build usually takes 7–10 business days.
- Review and edits — you review the live draft and request changes before anything goes public.
- Launch and handover — we hand over full login access and a step-by-step guide so you can manage the site yourself going forward.
Squarespace Website Design Pricing
Squarespace website design starts at $995 for a custom-built informational or service website. This includes the design, build, mobile optimisation, on-page SEO, and CMS handover described above. Businesses needing online store functionality on top of this should budget from $1,495, which includes the first products uploaded for you.
Pricing depends on the number of pages, whether you need copywriting or photography, and any custom functionality (bookings, memberships, galleries). Get in touch for a free, no-obligation quote and we’ll confirm exact pricing for your project before any work begins.
Squarespace Website Design FAQs
We start from a Squarespace template as the technical foundation, then rebuild the layout, typography, colour palette, and spacing around your brand. The result doesn’t look like an out-of-the-box template.
Yes. We regularly migrate businesses from WordPress, Wix, and other platforms onto Squarespace, keeping your existing domain, email addresses, and content where possible.
Yes — Squarespace itself charges an annual platform subscription (paid directly to Squarespace, not to us) which covers hosting and security. Our $995 fee covers the design and build.
Squarespace sites are technically capable of ranking well, but design and templates alone don’t guarantee it. Every build includes on-page SEO fundamentals — clean heading structure, meta data, and image optimisation — as a starting point. If you want ongoing SEO campaigns beyond the initial build, that’s a separate, dedicated service.
Yes. Squarespace makes it straightforward to add a blog or store to an existing site later on, and we can set that up whenever you’re ready.
Some businesses need functionality beyond what Squarespace supports. If that’s the case, we’ll tell you honestly during the discovery call and recommend a custom-built alternative instead.
