This year at Nashville Design Week, I had the opportunity to co-host Designed to Lead: Women in Design. We created it as and event to celebrate and elevate the women shaping Nashville’s creative landscape.

Watch along with me as I do a Squarespace website refresh for a client of mine, and you can see how I take a DIY website into a professionally put together, consistent branded platform. If you want to get a professional Squarespace refresh for your Squarespace website, reach out!

Even a site with a perfectly designed desktop layout can suffer as soon as a visitor accesses their site on mobile. Today, we'll quickly give you some tips to have consistent, mobile-ready layouts on your site and how to add 'check mobile' into your workflow so you never forget it again.

From step one to a finished site, we'll go over everything you need to know to bring your Squarespace online store to life so you can start making money by selling products and services through the website you've worked so hard to build, optimized for SEO and usability.

The difference between an amateur website and a professional website is often down to the colors and how they're used. Today, I'll be showing you how to choose your colors from existing assets to make your brand website stand out like you're a massive company with a whole design team on your side by using those same philosophies.

I've worked with a lot of creatives and business owners who have found themselves stuck in the website creation process. If that sounds like you, here is some friendly, expert advice from me, an experienced Squarespace designer, to help you get to a point where your website can be an active asset to your business.

One of the most important parts of your brand is your color palette, which can make it so frustrating when your photos are just a little bit off color-wise. Today we'll cover how to tweak your photo colors using Canva to create better cohesion throughout your website.

It used to require custom code to add anchor links to your Squarespace navigation, but not anymore. We'll quickly go over what you need to know to easily add anchor tags to your site and use them to easily spruce up your website feel with no code required.

Great branding isn’t about having a rigid master plan, it’s often about a few core guiding principles that keep your brand aligned with your goals. Today we’ll discuss a few important questions you need to know about to get your brand to that aligned, consistent place so your messaging can flourish.

If you think a business or personal brand is just a logo or some colors, you couldn't be more wrong. Branding is a wide-spread persona that you put together through hard work and intentional action, and today we'll be discussing the value of that brand for your future success. By first understanding the principles behind branding, you're able to make better decisions moving forward on how to shape it.

We all want our careers to go up and up forever, but if you’re building a creative career or personal brand, that’s not the case. By looking at my career trajectory, I hope you can prepare for the ups and downs of this field and know that every step you take is building your creative career (even if it’s not how you expect).

For a simple change that will greatly improve efficiency when building your Squarespace site, I'll show you how to customize your sidebar, keeping elements of your site that your business offers while removing any clutter or unnecessary pieces that you have to wade through. It's a simple step, but your website will thank you.

At the top of your website, it's important to have a clean, easily understandable navigation that funnels your clients to where they need to go. Today, we'll cover how to use drop down menus to enhance your site's navigation through additional pages, links, and categories.

Need to fix up your website's SEO but not sure the best place to start? Squarespace has launched a brand new AI tool to help you cross some important items off your SEO checklist, and I'll show you how to access and use this to help your website thrive!

When your website is ready to be launched, you'll need to update your domain or URL information on the front and back ends of your website. We'll go over what to do to get a domain or use an existing domain so all your website records are in order.