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Squarespace is an all-in-one platform for creating and customizing mobile-friendly websites. With intuitive drag-and-drop building elements and a vast selection of ultra-modern templates that eliminate the need for coding knowledge, it's easy to see why it's a preferred pick for many first-time website owners.
Truthfully, the hardest part about designing a Squarespace site is often just choosing one of those templates — there are over 240 of them across Squarespace versions 7.0 and 7.1, the two iterations of the platform it currently supports, with more added every few months. How do you decide which one to use for your oil painting portfolio, your Taiwanese-American food blog, or the online store for your cool-girl jeans? (Those are all different kinds of websites that have been made with Squarespace, FYI.)
If you're seriously stuck, you can try your hand at creating your own template from scratch using Squarespace Blueprint, a five-step design system that walks users through professionally curated layout options, font pairings, and color palettes. (It's new as of May 2023.) But for those who need a little extra guidance, we've rounded up 16 of the best pre-made Squarespace templates for all sorts of sites below.
Note: Most of our recommendations are from Squarespace version 7.1, but we've sprinkled in a few options from version 7.0 that continue to stand out. Templates have been labeled accordingly.
