There are going to be times when you’re going to want to change the design of your Squarespace website. There are several reasons for this. First of all, it could be that you would like a fresh design your website. Another reason might because you’re changing branding or you want to keep up with more modern designs.
You might also have a problem that sometimes Squarespace will discontinue support for specific templates. You don’t want to have a template that is no longer support because there are several risks such as:
Cyber Threats: Most updates include patches that fix security gaps in coding that hackers can use to gain access to your website. If a template isn’t updated, then these gaps will remain.
New Squarespace Software: You might find that there are compatibility issues with new Squarespace releases. For instance, those templates issued for Squarespace 6.0 and discontinued won’t work on 7.0 or 7.1.
Add-ons: When addons are updated to meet new coding aspects of the latest Squarespace release, it might make them incompatible with older themes.
Therefore, you should look at changing your Squarespace template if it is no longer supported.
How Easy is it to Switch Templates?
It is relatively easy for you to switch templates within the Squarespace environment. All you need to do is to go into your design and install a new template and then activate it on your website. The process of doing this takes minutes.
However, while it is easy to do and takes little time in theory, in reality, you should spend some time on the project. For instance, not all templates are built the same and you might need to make changes to the old content to make it fit the new template. In addition, templates come with default colour schemes that you might want to change.
However, there is a way that you can do this.
Use Preview Mode
When you’re switching templates within the Squarespace environment, you will want to use the Preview mode. In this mode, you can make changes to your website’s design and see how it will look to visitors without the visitors seeing the change. They will see the old version of the website until you’ve completed the changes and can push them live to your audience.
If you don’t want to use the old design, you can also deploy a ‘Coming Soon’ page or ‘Maintenance’ page for your customers. This allows you to work on the new design without your customers seeing the changes. Making those final designs visible is really easy, it is just a click of a button for the changes to migrate over to the live website.
Final Word: Can I Work On a New Squarespace Template Before Visitors Can See It?
There are going to be times when you will want to work on your new Squarespace template and keep those edits to yourself. You don’t really want customers to see the website until it is finished. That is why you can use Preview mode to make those changes before releasing them for everyone to see.
