As a minimalist designer, I often do my layouts completely in grayscale and then consider colour options later. However, picking colours can be one of the most difficult, important and fun parts of coming up with a new design.

Everyone knows what blogging is. A blog, or "web log" is an online journal used to display information or share views on topics of interest. Content marketing is a little lesser known, but so much more important for businesses like mine who are doing everything they can to gain authority and notoriety within the online space.

Quite simply, minimalists live in white cubes and own nothing. We want for nothing, we lust for nothing and we live in void free of hangups, intention, our anything dear. Minimalists feel a tremendous amount of pain with the thought of acquiring a new object.

SEO is one of the hottest topics amongst web designers right now. Who's doing it right? Who's doing it wrong? What do search engines like Google use to measure how your website will be displayed?

Button blocks in Squarespace are a super easy and convenient way to add a good-looking and consistently stylized button to your page. The convenience of Squarespace also comes with some limitations that sometimes make ostensibly easy tasks difficult.

Think about the biggest and most successful brands you know. Are you able pick up on the vibe they're giving? Do you understand the story they're telling?

Squarespace offers a tightly curated collection of templates that allow you to be your own designer and come out looking like an industry leader with a polished website, but it's easy to simply choose a template, plug in your photos and text, and end up with a website that looks exactly like the thousands of others with the same layout and styling.

Question: Would you leave sensitive documents with tons of your personal information out on a table when you have guests over to your house?

If so, kudos to you for having a trusting, carefree spirit—you probably won't care about this topic. If not, keep reading

ou're a savvy business person and you know the importance of retaining customers. That's why you have a compelling website that keeps people browsing for whole minutes.

Are you seeing lots of page visits in your analytics but no one is calling? Maybe someone referred a friend to your business and they never got back to you. In the world of business you have seven seconds to make a first impression. With your website, you have even less time than that.

One of the main concerns I've heard from clients and others thinking about using Squarespace is that they don't want their website to look and act like everyone else's site and look like a template.

I first became interested in doing this when I saw it on the Squarespace circle website. Then recently a client I'm trying to get showed me the Shawn Mendez website because he was utterly fascinated with the angles and the parallax over the footer. I wanted to find a way to simulate this look in a different way, as to not be total copycat. 

"Squarespace sucks for SEO." I've heard this almost enough times to believe it, but the one thing I believe for sure is that the people who say that have never used Squarespace before in their lives and just like to start arguments on forums.

I often find myself defending Squarespace to so-called "real" web designers. I don't know what that even means—but it's rude. Squarespace is all I've ever known with respect to web design.

Why do I need a mobile friendly website? First of all, that's not something you should ask, you should just know—and if you don't know, you should be ashamed not to know and pretend to know. This blog post is inspired by this interesting article from Google.