The WorkDay Design Package
Don’t need a full site?
A professional web designer at your service.
What you get:
Uncomplicated, flat-rate assistance for your website.
You'll have access to 7 hours of my undivided attention, all condensed into a single day, to enhance your Squarespace site.
We can do this a couple of ways.
A. I work from your list and keep you updated throughout the day via email and loom video recordings.
Here's how that looks: You provide me with your list of priorities, we go through it in advance, and together, we work closely throughout the day through email and Slack to achieve your website or SEO aspirations.
During these hours, I'm all yours — no distractions. I'm focused on your site and nothing else. I’ll email as things progress, you simply click refresh through the day and you can watch the transformation live!
B. Collaboration
If you're interested in learning the ins & outs of Squarespace web design or the process of SEO copyediting, we'll delve into design, content, and SEO best practices together during this time via Zoom screenshare. Once you're confident, you can choose tasks from the checklist, amplifying our productivity.
With WorkDay, it's all about you. I dedicate my time exclusively to you and your tasks.
What can get done in a WorkDay Design day?
Here are a few ideas of what we can get done in a WorkDay Design day.
Add pages, content, and images
Learn how to set up your site correctly in a way that is optimized for your audience to have a wonderful experience. Learn how to make sure it is following SEO best practices so you can scale your business with adding new content.
Update your website brand design
Perhaps you’ve done a re-brand of your business and would like some help in updating and giving your site a refresh.
Update the design of a page
Set up and apply new colors and/or fonts for the pages, buttons, sections, modules, etc
Set up styles and custom saved layout sections for you to more easily build on your own.
We can tweak your page layouts and sections to make sure they are cohesive and work correctly. As well as create new layout sections that we can put into your library to use on future pages.
Set up a blog
Including how to get it to look, feel and do what you want it to, SEO best practices and how to maintain it correctly.
Set up the back-end of Squarespace
Back-end set up includes things like verify your domain name, set up your email provider, embed an email opt in form to collect email addresses and deliver content.
WorkDay Design days give you Squarespace help at a flat rate.
How it Works
for WorkDay Design
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Once I receive your application, I’ll be in touch shortly. You will then get a link to book a free Discovery Call.
I’ll also include an Intro Questionnaire for you to fill out before our call to be able to start to get to know you and your business a little better.
(If you don’t see my email be sure to check other folders emails sometimes end up, like Other, Spam, Junk, Promo, etc)
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On our discovery call, we’ll talk through the questionnaire and I’ll walk you through my process stay by step so you understand start to finish what that process looks like.
That way we can decide if we’re a good fit.
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If we’re a good fit, we’ll choose the WorkDay Design day. (No worries, if we’re not a good fit, I offer suggestions of other platforms and/or designers.)
I send you the contract to sign (contract is good at that price for 2 weeks before it expires).
Full payment is due at time of contract signing to reserve the build dates we agreed on.
Once contract is signed and payment is made, it’s time to prep for the Design Day.
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Once we’re official, I email you a Welcome Package with everything you’ll need to know going forward.
I’ll also include a Google Drive folder to put all of what we will need for the design day.
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Once we decide we’re a good fit, I will send you the Welcome Package. Everything you need to know in order to be ready for the WorkDay will be in there.
In short, here is what you’ll need to prep to get the most out of the day:
1.Your List of Priorities (listed in order of priority)
Put together a list of the things you’d like done on your Squarespace site.
We can talk through their priority on our Discovery and Strategy Call.
See the section on this page that gives you a list of ideas of what we can do in a WorkDay Design day.
2. Branding (logo, colors, etc)
Provide your branding style. This means your logo, color palette).
If you don’t have branding, you can add this as an add-on to your website package.
3. Copy (all the words)
You provide the copy for your website (I’ll send you a content planner in the Welcome Package).
I’m happy to do some light editing as we put the site together.
I can also give you recommendations if you want help with the copywriting (everything from fantastic self-paced online courses to full-service copywriters).
4. Photos, Graphics, & Videos (all the visuals)
You provide all the images and graphics for your website. The images on your site are a fantastic way to personalize your site and have it convey your business and brand in a cohesive and beautiful way.
Brand photography is the best way to do this. However, if that is not in your budget, you can put together photography and graphics (in your colors and the look and feel you want).
I can give you some recommendations for stock photography if you’d like.
The most important part is to make sure the images are clear and high quality to represent you and your business.
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Working hours are usually from 9am to 3pm Central time. And . . . that’s about the extent of ‘typical’ lol.
The beautiful thing about the day is that we get to focus on your goals and spend the time so that it works best for you and your business.
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No. Five hours just isn’t enough time for creating a website from start to finish.
However, if you want help getting a new site started. We can do that!
If you have an existing Squarespace 7.1 site and want some help with a page to get it to a place where you can take it from there or to implement SEO best practices on it. We can do that!
How much we get done depends on a few things like branding, prepared content, what’s already been done, and how much training you want during our WorkDay.
Sometimes clients will book 2 WorkDay sessions so we can launch a small site by the end of the second WorkDay. That’s totally an option as well!
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I currently work only on Squarespace 7.1 websites only for a WorkDay Design day. If you’d like me to check and see which version you are on, email me a link to your website.
Note:If you have a Squarespace 7.0 site, it’s most likely time to update and rework your website as they are no longer supporting it with updates. Fluid Engine gives you greater control over the design and layout of your website.I think you’ll come to love the easy functionality of 7.1.
I would love to walk you through how to use it to your advantage.
For a project like that, you’ll want to look at my custom website design services.
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Migrating from 7.0 to 7.1 is a big project, and more than we can accomplish in a design WorkDay.
We have a couple of options:
(1) We can get you started and you can add additional WorkDays to complete small site migrations at a time. Or,
(2) you can book a full design package and we can get it done in.
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Yes! I take short 5-10 minute breaks about once an hour (included in the hours). By preference I eat lunch at my desk if I have lunch.
You can take breaks anytime you’d like.
The only necessity is to answer emails to keep the project moving forward.
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Great question!
If you don’t have a domain name, you will need to purchase one. I recommend purchasing it from Squarespace as it is inexpensive and the secure SSL certificate is included. This will save you money in the long run. We can talk about that on our call.
For a website build, you will need to sign up for a Squarespace plan (Business Plan or higher) before your free trial ends. We will get you set up on our final call so that you will be set when the free six month Squarespace trial is over and you will know exactly what to expect.
If you want to use a premium font or images that you don’t currently own, you will need to purchase them.
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I’ll bring all of my expertise, experience and proven methodology to set up your website for the absolute best chance of success.
Of course, when we’re talking about online business and conversions, it is a process that takes time, iteration and experimentation.
We’ll for sure get you started in the right direction.
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We will focus on key issues and implementing best practices for your on-site SEO. I can’t guarantee that you’ll see a shift in how your site works after this session.
Search engine rankings change slowly over time, keep in mind that results will require ongoing work from you.
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Keep in mind that I work from 10am to 3pm Central time. If you are able to work and keep the progress moving forward, then yes.
I’m happy to meet and see what we can work out to be able to work together.
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Good news. I offer smaller blocks of time for things just like this. Reach out here.
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Reach out to me here and I’ll get you taken care of.
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Head here . Let me know a little of what your needs are and what you’re interested in – you’re not locked in.
I’ll look over your information and reply within two business days. If we’re a good fit, I’ll send you a booking link. Easy as that.