Without realizing it, people automatically judge people by the colors that they wear or the shades that surround them. When someone visits your store, they're influenced by the color of your walls, the tones on your business card - even the color of your suit. Why should color on your website be any less important?

I’d like to share some of my favourite tools and resources because all of these tools are free to use, and sharing them is my way of showing appreciation for the help and guidance they’ve provided.

Parallax web design effects have been growing in popularity for years. It’s a wonderful way to add visual interest you your website when done correctly.

Some time ago, I wrote an article outlining how to create slanted headers and footers. That small bit of code was then featured within the Ghost Plugins library, and I’ve since been bombarded with emails containing questions about how to add slanted sections within a Brine Index.

Recently, I fell victim to this common scam that has been plaguing web designers and graphic designers alike, and I feel that I would be doing a disservice to my fellow creatives if I didn’t write my piece about it here.

If you’ve spent any time building a Squarespace website, you know that it’s super easy to make a horizontal line by using a line block. But what about vertical lines?

In the web design business, like any tech-related business, technologies and trends move & change at an impossibly rapid rate. You’ve probably noticed many of these trends emerging already. If not, you’re going to notice them after reading this article.

A portfolio is your chance to tell a story about the successes of your clients and the benefits of hiring a professional like you to build a trustworthy brand. In this article, I’ll outline the steps necessary to help ensure that your website converts those casual looky-loos into people who identify with what you’re selling and potential clients who can’t wait to hire you.

2018 was a big year for my business and Squarespace alike. We saw a tremendous number of updates and improvements to the Squarespace platform, and in this post, I’m going to walk through the most notable and useful changes that were brought forth this year.

The growth of my business has already exceeded my expectations, but I still have a long way to go. With that said, I feel that much of my growth can be attributed to content marketing.

There are more distractions, people get busier, and attention spans get shorter every day. Keeping people’s attention has become a HUGE challenge, and many of us have failed to recognize it.

Before I started building websites for clients, I used Squarespace to build a website for my previous business. It took some time to figure out, but I ended up with a website that I could be proud of, even with my unreasonably high standards.

As I gain more experience building websites on Squarespace, I continue to notice small nuances that are sometimes neat, sometimes annoying. Regardless of what it is, I often just want to change some small thing.

In a very, very short amount of time, I've already encountered several situations during which extended family, friends, colleagues, and even acquaintances have asked for a favour in the form of free design work.

Squarespace made it easy for us website solopreneures to implement that annoying (but necessary) cookie banner on our own sites. I’ve only just turned it on on my own website, but was shocked to see this: