The best Squarespace templates for videos, blogs, and all other web pages

All Squarespace templates support its commerce features(Opens in a new tab), including customised checkout, customer email notifications, and marketing, but you can get your online shop off the ground sooner with a tailor-made template like Maca. (Peep the stockist, FAQ, terms of use, and shipping/return links that are already set up for you in the bottom navigation.) Its layout plays around with colour and negative space in a really smart way — it's visually interesting but not distracting. It also gives you lots of different ways to organise your products, with preset sections for featured collections, bestsellers, and sale items.

Working photographers barely need to make any changes to the demo version of Quincy: It's got a show-stopping landing page, a pretty portfolio page with changing full-bleed background images, and easy-to-find social icons. But the very best part is its contact page: It's got a ready-made Acuity Scheduling block (a premium Squarespace feature) where potential clients can schedule different kinds of sessions and submit their contact information. It'll make scheduling a breeze so you can spend more time doing what you love (actually taking pictures) and less time trying to get booked.

Five(Opens in a new tab) may be one of the older Squarespace templates out there, but it’s anything but washed up. One of its main draws is its support for sidebars, which can play an important role on one’s blog. 

You can use a sidebar to highlight promotions, house a call-to-action, or plug your bio and social media handles to build your brand. Every page on a Five site can feature up to two sidebars; in fact, Five is the only Squarespace template that features a two-sidebar design. 

With Five, you’ve also got options to showcase your content in the form of full-width banners and videos, tweak your navigation menu, style galleries as grids or slideshows, create events, and much more. Plus, Five supports Squarespace’s integrated commerce feature so you can set up an online store once your blog takes off.  

For an elegant online shop that requires minimal effort on your part, Galapagos(Opens in a new tab) is where it’s at. 

Its customisation options are pretty limited compared to most other ecommerce Squarespace templates, but that means you can spend less time designing your site and more time selling your stuff. Your customers won’t even know the difference, either, because the final result will look and work as if you spent hours perfecting its design: With a Quick View feature, Product Image Zoom, and several product layouts and special on-hover effects to choose from, Galapagos can make your shop fully interactive in just a few clicks and drags. 

Besides your Products page, the Galapagos theme can also support list-style blogs with one sidebar, galleries styled as slideshows or grids, calendars or lists of events, an album page with playable music, and a unique landing page.  

Wells is a light and airy template that's been around since 2012, and it's a true oldie-but-goodie for creative types. Its simple homepage features a scrollable grid-style gallery that presents a nice overview of your work. Users can click on each thumbnail to see the full-size version with a title or caption — feel free to wax poetic about your process or inspiration there. Wells also supports store pages if you want to start selling prints, but it can easily stand on its own as a basic portfolio site.

Wexley(Opens in a new tab) is another older template that’s stuck around for a reason: Its “adaptive mosaic” layout for visuals — that’s Squarespace’s way of saying “fancy grid” — has proven to be a compelling way to flaunt one’s artwork and photography. 

It works like this: You’ll put together a landing page that features the best of your portfolio, wherein every image will be optimised to best fit your screen width. Whenever a visitor clicks on an image, Wexley will open a slideshow overlay that the user can further peruse at their leisure. 

In addition to your landing page, Wexley will let you build a list-style blog, a playable album page, a calendar or list of events, and a products page for your artistic services and creations. Just know that these other pages’ layout options are somewhat bare, as Wexley intends for your landing page to be the focal point of your site.  

Templates within the Brine family are designed to sell things — and yes, that includes yourself. 

What we’re trying to say is this: You can create a contemporary, attention-grabbing online CV with Pursuit(Opens in a new tab), a text-focused, CV-style template with colourful call-to-action buttons that pop off the page. Be sure to take advantage of its stacked index page feature, which puts your skills graphs, experience, awards, and other pertinent information all in one polished place. That way, hiring managers don’t have to hunt it down across different pages.

For more on the features available within the Brine family, check out the write-up of the template above.

Help your guests get organised in preparation for your big day with Charlotte(Opens in a new tab), another template from the Pacific family. 

Its layout’s focal point is a scrolling index page that supports full-bleed images with text overlays, which you could use to tell the story of your relationship, share highlights from your engagement photoshoot, recommend accommodations, and/or drop some gift registry ideas. Plus, if you set that index page as your homepage, your main navigation will be pinned to the top of your browser as viewers scroll.

For more on the features available within the Pacific family, check out the write-up of the Horizon template above.

Named after the audio file format, Wav is a newer template featuring a statement-making, grid-style layout that’s fresh and modern. 

Most notably, it’s capable of integrating with Soundcloud, a perk that makes publishing your latest episodes a cinch.

For more on the features available within the Brine family, check out the write-up of the template above.

Ready’s chic, minimalist design is accentuated with “[vivid] headlines and bright pops of colour,” per Squarespace, creating a welcoming web presence that’ll attract all sorts of potential clients to your main and/or side hustle(s). 

Structure-wise, it’s a multi-page template that highlights your service(s) on its homepage, then dedicates separate pages to tidbits like pricing, contact information, testimonials, and appointment requests. 

As a member of the Skye template family, Ready is unique in that it doesn’t give users the option to disable mobile styles, which guarantees your site is always mobile-friendly.  

Although it’s technically intended for bands to use, Horizon(Opens in a new tab) is a template that videographers will fall in love with, too. 

Designed to “[let] your content take centre stage like never before,” its biggest pull is its sleek scrolling index page, which stacks full-bleed banner videos and images consecutively. If you set this index page as your homepage, it’ll create a long, single-page site that stacks the content from multiple pages vertically, a seamless layout that makes for quite the bold impression. Setting an index page as the homepage also gives you the option of locking your main navigation so that it stays at the top of the browser window as you scroll.

Aside from the index page, this Pacific family template supports list-style blogs, playable album pages, event pages, and sellable products pages with a customisable shopping cart button.

This bad boy is the parent template of the Brine(Opens in a new tab) family, the biggest and one of the most popular template families on Squarespace, and the one that gives you the most style control for both desktop and mobile.

Brine was specifically designed for brands and companies who want a top-notch web presence with an active blog, some sophisticated ecommerce features, and a stellar balance of text and images.

Brine gives you lots of options to play around with design-wise, including a stacked parallax-scrolling index page, advanced commerce features like on-hover effects, a content inset feature that can be used to draw attention to special announcements, multiple navigation areas, multiple blog layouts, custom share buttons, full-width banners and headers, and so much more.

All of Squarespace’s templates are mobile-optimised with a responsive design, but for a mobile experience that goes above and beyond, we really like Nueva. 

This is a template that features an uncluttered and highly scrollable layout with mosaic-style galleries and prominent headlines. Plus, as a member of the Brine template family, it comes with the biggest set of advanced mobile styles, which basically means you can tinker with its structure for mobile in almost all of its entirety. 

For more on the features available within the Brine family, check out the write-up of the template above.