There is no best Squarespace template, only the best template for a specific page architecture. Squarespace's ~200 free templates handle brochure sites well and cost nothing extra.

Yes, but you cannot keep it. Squarespace templates and third-party premium templates arrive filled with demo images and placeholder copy for context only. Squarespace states you have no licence to use sample images on a live site.

Squarespace has no first-party plugin marketplace, so a "plugin" here is third-party code you paste into your own site. When a template advertises "plugins included", it almost always means custom code blocks bundled into the design

Yes, if your business already earns money and your time is worth more than about $15 an hour. A $249 premium Squarespace template buys 20 to 40 hours of finished layout work — not extra features.

Squarespace's own templates cost nothing — around 200 are included with every subscription. Third-party premium templates typically cost $50 to $300 as a one-off, with the wider market running from about $47 to $595.

Squarespace has no "install template" button, so installation is human work. There are two routes — a new trial site built and handed to you, which is included, or a manual install onto your existing live site,

Premium Squarespace templates are almost never refundable, so the live demo is the entire purchase decision. Run seven tests on it — mobile at 766px, images degraded, sections counted, page list checked against your own site map,

Every Squarespace 7.1 site runs the same software, so a premium template is not a different or better version of Squarespace. What you buy is a pre-built arrangement — sections, pages, style settings and demo content already assembled

Start from what your website has to do, not from what it looks like. In Squarespace 7.1 every template shares the same features — Squarespace states that all 7.1 sites are in one template family with identical capabilities

Almost every Squarespace design template looks good in a thumbnail, because a thumbnail hides the two things that decide quality: hierarchy and how the design behaves with worse photographs than the demo.

Squarespace's own templates are included with a plan, at no extra cost, and there is no Squarespace store selling third-party designs. Every paid Squarespace template comes from an independent designer or shop,

Premium Squarespace templates cluster between $95 and $400, and the shops separate on three things — catalogue size, whether they install the template for you, and how long support lasts.

"Wedding template" means three unrelated things. A wedding planner needs service and package pages with a qualifying enquiry form. A venue needs a serious gallery, capacity figures and a date-availability path.

Squarespace 7.1 has no landing page type. Cover pages were a version 7.0 feature and are not available in 7.1 — a landing page in 7.1 is an ordinary page with the header and footer hidden.

Squarespace's own templates are free with any plan. Third-party templates run from about $20 on open marketplaces to $299 at established shops, with the serious tier clustered at $225-$299.

Stop comparing designs and start comparing page lists. Every Squarespace 7.1 template runs the same feature set, so the only things that genuinely differ between one template and another are which pages already exist,

In Squarespace 7.1 there are no separate templates. Every 7.1 site belongs to a single template family with identical features and identical style options, and the design you pick at signup is only a starting arrangement of pages and sections.

Almost never the template. A Squarespace site looks templated because of six things the owner did after installing it — inconsistent type sizes, uneven spacing between sections, too many accent colours, mixed image treatments,

Free Squarespace templates are not a cut-down version of premium ones. In Squarespace 7.1 every site — free template or $249 template — runs on the same underlying system with the same features, blocks, commerce tools and SEO controls.

There are only three routes. Squarespace's own free templates are included with any plan and are genuinely good — for a simple site with strong photography they are often the right choice.