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here we dive deep into all things website strategy & design tips for wedding pros.
The best places to find stock photos for wedding pros
How to leverage your website photos: 6 Figure Wedding Planner Podcast with Halima Hanemann
The essential website images to attract better wedding clients
Elevate your website with these designer secrets: Confetti Hour Podcast with Renee Sabo
25 crucial questions to ask yourself before redesigning your website
Designing a wedding business website that converts: The importance of a website strategy
8 Reasons your wedding business website isn’t helping you book couples (+ Podcast episode)
Do this first when building a new Squarespace website (my #1 design tip)
If you’ve ever tried building a Squarespace 7.1 site from scratch, I’m sure you’ve experienced how quickly your design settings can get scrambled. But after creating dozens of these sites, I finally figured out the optimal method to get started and stay organized (and basically just make your life easier).
How to build the perfect website for your business (step-by-step process)
To really make your investment count (time and/or money), you want to make sure all the components of the website will be working in harmony to tell the same story and attract the right type of client. Your website-building experience will also go MUCH faster if you first have a solid gameplan with all the important pieces on hand.
What does web design cost in 2023 for service-based businesses?
The cost of web design services vary widely but there do tend to be some industry standards! After reading this you can decide how to proceed based on your desired budget, where you are in your business journey, and how much support you think you need or want.
Couples aren’t inquiring to work with you? Here’s what to check on your website
8 Steps to build an amazing wedding portfolio for your website
The photos you choose not only help clients understand your brand, but can help a couple envision the transformation you can provide them. Your photos can also 100% make or break your website design.
Change the style of your header in Squarespace 7.1 (new built-in features!)
New Squarespace design options allow you to change the look of your navigation bar in any 7.1 template. This video tutorial will show you how!
How to move your website up in Google (+ bonus tips for Squarespace users!) - An ultimate guide to SEO for wedding pros
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Basically, it’s the secret language of Google; and if you want to get clients from your website, you need to speak the language. When your site is properly optimized, Google rewards you! You get bumped higher up in the search results, and that gets more eyes on your website. Since the wedding industry is ridiculously crowded, having great SEO is an awesome way to get an edge over the competition. What happens to most young businesses is they spend a lot of time on a cool website, only to have it sit there gathering dust. We want your website to actually get you clients! So let’s talk about all the ways you can improve your website’s Google ranking and increase your traffic!
3 Ways to declutter your website design
15 Stunning wedding vendor websites built on Squarespace
The #1 way to keep people on your website (a factor that many top designers ignore)
Photoshop tutorial: How to make a website banner out of a small photo
Squarespace makes it really easy to create hero/header/banner images with headlines on top. The problem is - many of us don’t have a bunch of wide-shot, landscape-orientation pictures with plenty of negative space to work with. You can totally repurpose your close-cropped and even vertical pictures that you love, and put them to use for your banners!