My Website Build Process with the Client from Start to Finish [+ FREE DOWNLOADS] 

This is gold! It is so hard to find this content online especially on RU-vid. Very helpful video for squarespace designers who are new to this whole process. Thanks for help!

One of your best videos ❤️

It's the details (like email titles) that you give which are so valuable! Thank you!!

Your videos are absolutely brilliant, so helpful for a fellow Squarespace designer! Thank you!

This was so helpful! Thank you!!

Loved the step by step and detailed explanations of each step! Subbed :)

These videos have helped me update my website so much! I have been contemplating adding Website building to my services and I think this video confirmed it for me!

you killed this very informative!

Thanks brother! I look forward to learning from you!

This was soooo helpful!! Thank you for making this video!!

Excellent break down for all skill levels. Thank you!

Wow good explanation thank you 🤩

Thank you so much, I'm subscribing 😀

great job david you were clear and to the point

Thank you so much for this!

Great stuff, really enjoyed this, lots of things I found useful.

Great video thank you

Great video! Love the tip about creating a doc for revisions. I am drowning in emails 🤣 Thanks!

this was super helpful, thank you!

I got to the end and I appreciate your breakdown! I've just begun to venture I to building websites again and I chose squarspace bc I was the most familiar with it, and you've clarified that it doesn't make me any less of a designer to use this platform and you're helping me establish systems to make this run smoothly and help grow my business. Many thanks!

Best video ever. thank you

I just got my first client! Thanks for the guidance!

Thanks 🙏🏼

thank you for this!!!!

Pure Value! I just wanted to clarify; in the end, you were talking bout the site migration, right? If yes, then could you make a tutorial bout it?

I've learned from others to absolutely have a signed agreement so the client can't try to chargeback later. I knew someone who did not have a signed contract/agreement and the day after the handoff, the client did a PP chargeback and the developer lost $5k in the dispute.

Thanks Alex. Well explained thank you. Greetings from James J in Limerick city Ireland 🇮🇪.

Love your videos, new subscriber here! Quick Question: i got that you use "website" for a password but what do you use for the email? The clients email? Squarespace doesn't let you build multiple sites on one account do they? And do you build their website on a Squarespaces free trial? Or do you pay for the site at the beginning?

What a great video! I was just wondering, do i create all my clients wp account in my own wp account? Or i need to create unique ones for each of them? Im kinda lost with this part! Thank you so much for your help 😊

Hi david, loved the video. That tip with loom was great! I have a question tho. Say im building a wordpress website for a client, for example a website for their coffeshop. Do you think is it better to show them few themes which i think would fit their needs and let them pick one(for some reason it feels unprofessional to me), or should i choose theme myself, risking they wont like it at all and loosing a lot of progress ? Thank you in advance for your insight !

You truly went above & beyond in this video and it is massively appreciated. I've unfortunately been giving my clients early access in order to build some items on the website. Like adding in product listings or subscriptions, I need their payment methods & an actual Squarespace subscription correct? I thought I had limited abilities on the free trial. Am I missing something? Are you adding in eCommerce/product listings during the (6 month) free trial somehow or covering their subscription until you are ready to transfer ownership? Thank you so much for your time & insight.

Hey David, love your videos :D! You've helped me so much already. I am struggling a bit with the process of connecting the site to an already existing domain owned by my customers (btw I am a designer). The few times I had to do it I always had the client give me their login details to (for example) ionos and then connected the site to their domain. I always felt weird asking my clients for log in details. Do you know if there's another way to do this? Or is this okay and a good way to do it? Thank you son much for your amazing work!!!

Awesome advice thank you, worth a subscription 👍. One question please as I’m just starting out…… do you or your client pay for domain to get project started ?

David, thanks so much for this in depth process explainer! It's super helpful!👏Quick Question! I've been using Wordpress to create websites however I've been wanting to switch over to SquareSpace, BUT I'm unsure of how to go about starting a website for a client on SS seeing as SS only offers a 14 day trail. Do I use the deposit I receive from the client to create an account / pay the first month of the plan while working on the SS site and then once the design is approved and I've received the final payment, I then transfer the ownership to the client and have them update the billing info so that all future payments are billed to them? I know you've mentioned the SS Circle Member in one of your videos, however I've never created a website on SS before so I don't think that option would work for me right now. OR do you have the client create a SS account which would then have their billing info and then you log in and design from there. Going this route, is it not risky? As they’d have access and could potentially not pay you at the end? Hope that makes sense!

Do you have any videos explaining the process you speak about at around 17:20? How do you make the domain but not pay for it until you hand it over?

Hi David, Love your videos! Would you share what is the proposal tool that you use? Or, could you recommend such a tool? Thanks.

Do you use notion for your process with clients? If so can you do a how to setup for it

Thank you for this!! Quick question, when you are creating the website do you use their email address for the login? Creating their own account?

can you tell more about the transionining domain, this is the part where i get stuck, how to move their domain to the new website.

In relation to final payment, are you utilizing the client's payment method to purchase the CMS, domain, and hosting platform? That way in the future you only have to provide them with a user id and password to the hosting site? I'm new at this.

Hi David, Thankyou for all the information!! I have a question how and when do the clients pay for the squarespace site? When you start do you pay the first month or how does that work?

I looked at your Discovery Call Questionnaire and wanted to know what you do in the situation of a client telling you they don’t have a logo, colors, or fonts. Do you create that yourself? If so, how and what program do you use? Or, do you outsource that to someone else? Do you charge the client for that? If so, how much? I want to design Squarespace sites and can only make very standard logos on Canva and I have limited experience with their colors and fonts. My concern is that if I decided to take care of these items myself that the client won’t like them or that I won’t know how to execute the type of logo they’re wanting on Canva since I’m not professionally trained in graphic design. Thanks for your help and for such an informative video for us newbies on the block!

how does a client give me access to the website after paying their monthly subscription on square space? Wouldn't they have access to take me off admin?

Hey David just wanted to ask if you’re not paying for the clients site. How are you getting time to edit the website if you pass the 14 day trial plus the extra 7 days?

Looking for the Starter Kit video on the channel, cant seem to find it

Just starting a design business. If you are adding social media to a site, do you ask for the clients login info or do you explain how they can do it themselves on the zoom call?

I would really like to know how do you take credit/ debit credentials and email credentials from client while making website and purchasing domain. will be waiting for your reply!

Do you have any recommendations for how to charge clients if I am the one coming up with content in addition to building the website?