13 of the best Squarespace templates for videos, blogs, and beyond

Five 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. The flexibility that comes from sidebar support is vast. For example, you can use one to highlight promotions, place a call-to-action specific to your work, 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. 
Five isn’t just about sidebars though. There are also extensive options such as the ability to add full-width banners and videos, tweak your navigation menu, style galleries as grids or slideshows, as well as create events or add contact forms. Five also supports Squarespace’s integrated eCommerce feature so you can set up an online store once your blog takes off and start selling directly. 
Effectively, the beauty behind Five is its simplicity and flexibility. You can make it whatever you need it to be. It works just as well as a simple blog as it does if you want to expand into eCommerce or use it as a form of portfolio. It’s an ideal place to start too if you’re not quite sure what your plans are.

A clean and simple interface is a great way of ensuring that your products take all the attention when potential customers are browsing. That’s certainly the case with Galapagos. It’s elegant in its simplicity forming an ideal starting point for setting up shop.
Granted, that comes at a small cost with fairly limited customization options compared to many other eCommerce Squarespace templates but we think it’s worth it. It means you can spend less time designing your site and more time selling your stuff. Customers won’t mind either because it looks good to them. 
With a Quick View feature for all items, they can easily check out potential purchases with Product Image Zoom giving them as close a look as if they were there in person. There are several product layouts along with other special on-hover effects so your site will look distinctive from the competition. It’s all nicely interactive too so that customers feel more immersed in the experience. 
Besides the 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. It’s enough to give your customers a taste of your personality, as well as what they can buy from you.

Brine is one of the biggest and most popular template families on Squarespace for good reason. It offers extensive flexibility and near never-ending amounts of customization options. If you want your site to look absolutely nothing like anything else out there, this is the solution for you, providing you put the time into tweaking it. 
As you’d imagine, Brine gives you the most style control for both desktop and mobile than pretty much any other Squarespace template. It was designed with brands and companies in mind, appreciating that they want a distinctive look with minimal effort. It has features like the ability to have an active blog, sophisticated eCommerce features like on-hover effects, plus extensive ways to tweak and juggle your text and images. 
Other impressive features include a stacked, parallax-scrolling index page which adds depth to your site, a content inset feature that can draw attention to big announcements, multiple navigation areas, multiple blog layouts, custom share buttons, and full-width banners and headers. The only thing it really lacks is sidebar functionality but otherwise, Brine packs so much in that you may be intimidated by what you can achieve here.

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 our write-up of the eponymous template (No. 5, above). 

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 resume with Pursuit, a text-focused, CV-style template with colorful 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 our write-up of the eponymous template (No. 5, above). 

Ready’s chic, minimalist design is accentuated with “[vivid] headlines and bright pops of color,” 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. 

Help your guests get organized in preparation for your big day with Charlotte, 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. (Hey, anything that makes the site easier for your technology-challenged relatives to use.)
For more on the features available within the Pacific family, check out our write-up of the Horizon template (No. 4, above). 

More and more food services are going online for bookings and showcasing their menus. Vance is a great way of doing this with minimal effort. Its landing page has all the key information such as photos of the food you offer, your location, and the option to subscribe to a newsletter. You can also include text on how your restaurant or cafe came to be with an About Us page keen to expand your story. 
Alongside that is a simple to browse menu, an all-important photo gallery to tantalize one’s tastebuds, and a booking service so that everything can be done from within the site. It’s just a shame that the mobile version isn’t so classy looking but it’s still highly functional.

Lusaka harks back to an older style blog than other Squarespace designs but that works well for a site that needs to impart a lot of knowledge. In particular, if you’re designing a site for a non-profit organization that needs to tell potential donors a lot in an appealing fashion, then Lusaka has the right design. A mixture of images and text overlays along with quick intros to further reading ensures that it’s captivating without being overly wordy.
The landing page serves as exactly that, tempting users into finding out more before delving further into more text-heavy content. It’s ideally suited for a site with a lot to say and the inclusion of donation features makes it all the more appropriate for such a purpose.

These days, selling your products online is often as much about selling your lifestyle and personality as it is the specific product. Almar combines those two sensibilities allowing you to advertise your wares or services while also giving you ample room to show your personality.
Aimed primarily at health and beauty, you can adapt it for other needs, with an appealing layout that works for many needs. You can write up blogs and features showcasing your knowledge, as well as explain how your journey began via the About Me page. That’s all before the user makes an appointment through the online booking service. It’s a great option for those looking for something a little more personal than a product page, but a little more financially viable than a blog.