What Are the Advantages of Using a Squarespace Template Over a Custom Website Design?
Written By Mark Anderson
The Office template. For an accountant, law firm or office based business.
£195.00
This is a design that would suit any corporate business. It's conventional and conservative and has a high end edge to it.
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The Hospitality template. For a hospitality business that needs good mobile design.
£195.00
You can make this template look just the way you want with your own images and text. Great design if you’re looking for a website that functions well on mobile.
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The Awesome template. For a marketing or social media businesses.
£195.00
This template is a really easy one to make your own. The design is easy to adapt to your own business. It's very slick and contemporary and looks great on mobile.
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Using a template on Squarespace instead of going fully custom comes down to speed, simplicity, and cost vs. flexibility and uniqueness.
Why people choose a Squarespace template
1. Much faster to launch
Templates are pre-designed, so you’re not starting from scratch. You can have a polished site live in hours or days instead of weeks.
2. Lower cost
Custom design usually involves hiring a designer and developer. Templates are cheaper so you avoid big upfront costs.
3. No coding required
Squarespace templates are built for non-technical users. You can drag, drop, and edit without needing HTML/CSS knowledge.
4. Built-in best practices
Templates are already optimised for:
Mobile responsiveness
Basic SEO structure
User-friendly layouts
This reduces the risk of poor design decisions.
5. Easy maintenance
Because everything is standardised within Squarespace, updates, hosting, and security are handled for you—no ongoing developer needed.
Where templates fall short (vs custom design)
1. Limited uniqueness
Even with customisation, your site may look similar to others using the same template.
2. Less flexibility
You’re constrained by the template’s structure—certain layouts or interactions might not be possible.
3. Harder to scale for complex needs
If you need advanced functionality (custom apps, unique UX, complex databases.
The trade-off in one line
Templates: faster, cheaper, easier.
Custom design: more flexible, more unique, more scalable.
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This design would suit any business. You can change the fonts and images to personalise your brand. Great for a small business that wants to grow.
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£195.00
Another of our great food website designs. This is a one page scrolling website. All of the pages show in sections on one page.
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£195.00
A fresh and conventional design where the choice of different pages have a background that you could easily customise. We can help you make it your own website.
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£195.00
Very bold layout. If you have a strong message and need to present it in cool vibrant way. You can customise the page backgrounds.
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£195.00
Similar design to The Cloud template. This is a scrolling design. Would suit any business that needs to stand out in a crowded market.
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£195.00
You can make this template look just the way you want with your own images and text. Great design if you’re looking for a website that functions well on mobile.
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£195.00
This is a new design. Very modern magazine style layout. We could help you set up your online shop and get you selling your products.
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£195.00
Lots of movement. You can change the page backgrounds or use video for movement.
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£195.00
Very cool scrolling website where the backgrounds move independently from the page foreground. Would suit a business that needs a gorgeous design.
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The perfect website for any services business. Just change our text and images to your own content. Nice conservative layout that is easy to make into your own website.
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£195.00
Lovely clean contemporary design for a business in the property world. Could be customised to suit a design or a services business. Conservative and understated design.
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£195.00
Beautiful subtle wedding website design. Very clean, subtle colours that compliment the images you decide to use.
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£195.00
Bold layout. This layout would compliment a brand. If you have a strong message, a set of colours and logos.
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£195.00
The 2nd of our lovely wedding website designs. Our wedding websites are easy to make your own.
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Looking for something a little bit quirky but not too 'out there’. This design would suit any business. Lots of choices for page layouts and customisable design.
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£195.00
This beautiful design has great section backgrounds with width with overlaying text.
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£195.00
This would suit any business. Easy to navigate and customise yourself. Just swap over our images to your own, it's a clean stylish layout.
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£195.00
We're good at healthcare and fitness websites. Another theme that you can make your offering look amazing. This template is perfect to customise and make it your own website.
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£195.00
A relaxing, soothing design. We can help you add a booking system to take payments. This design can be turned quickly into your own website.
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£195.00
Very visual design and perfect for a business that has great images. The ‘call to action’ buttons within the images are an effective way to get you user the the pages they need.
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£195.00
This is a design that would suit any corporate business. It's conventional and conservative and has a high end edge to it.
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£195.00
You’ll find this design easy to make it into your own website. Lots of page layout options on this one so it’s a good design to use if you need a website quickly.
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£195.00
A very simple one page scrolling food website. It can be easily customised if you need a website quickly
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Take a look at the logo and the animated buttons on this design. It’s perfect for a business that takes bookings and needs a calendar to handle bookings and payments. Blogs are also included in this beautiful design.
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A one page scrolling website for a media or creative business. We had fun building this one
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A lovely design with split backgrounds. Would suit any business where style and presentation is important. Just swap over the images and the text.
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This photographer’s website all about showing the work in order to attract commercial clients.
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Beautifully presented hand made framed limited edition photographs.
https://akaroagallery.com
This template is a really easy one to make your own. The design is easy to adapt to your own business. It's very slick and contemporary and looks great on mobile.
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