Redesign or restart your site

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Redesign or restart your site

Last updated July 06, 2026 14:15

Explore options to update the look and feel of your site.

To refresh your website, you can remove content, change page layouts, reset style settings, or start over with a new trial site.

Videos about changing the look of your site

Watch a video about some of your options when redesigning your site.

Version 7.1

This video applies to version 7.1.

Options for starting over

The best way to start over depends on what content or style settings you want to keep:

  • Redesign your site - Keep some or all of the content on your current site, but choose a new style and structure. You can experiment with a new look without any permanent changes to your existing site.
  • Reset style settings - Keep all the content of your current site, but restore its original style settings. You can return your site to the same look it had when you created it.
  • Delete your site content - Remove content you've added to your site, but keep the style settings intact. You can completely change your site's structure and organization.
  • Start a new trial site - Create an entirely new site. With this option, you lose all content and style settings, but you can import products and move existing domain and Google Workspace subscriptions.

How will redesigning my site affect my SEO?

If your site was published prior to starting a redesign, consider protecting your site’s search ranking and other SEO measures. Squarespace provides built-in tools to help you maintain your ranking.

Redesign your site

To refresh the look and feel of your site, you can experiment with different templates, themes, and layouts. Making these changes won’t affect your website subscription. How you redesign your site, depends on your site’s version:

Explore new structures or designs for your site at any time while keeping your existing content intact. With Fluid Engine sections, you can try out new layouts per section to compare different visual options.

You can also add new pages or sections with pre-built layouts. Each layout includes demo blocks that you can replace with your own content.

If you're adding a pre-built section to an existing page, you can move blocks from your current sections to the new section. It's not possible to move blocks between pages.

Add a pre-built page

To add a pre-built page:

  1. Open the Pages panel and click +.
  2. Click Page Layouts, then click a layout type, like Contact, Services, or Team.
  3. Browse the available layouts and select the one best for you.

Add a pre-built section

To add a pre-built section:

  1. Open the Pages panel and click the page where you want to add the section.
  2. Click Edit, then click + on the page.
  3. Click a section type, like Images, Newsletter, or Music.
  4. Browse the available layouts and select the one best for you.

Restyle your site with preset style packs

You can't switch templates in version 7.1, but you can get a different look by editing your site's colors or fonts or by adding different page types.

To quickly try out new color and font options, click Themes when making style changes. You'll browse and select from preset style packs, such as Professional, Bold, and Playful. Use these packs to inspire new design ideas. You can still make individual changes to font and color after selecting a theme.

To try a new structure, style, or template-specific feature on a version 7.0 site, you can switch templates. You can preview the new template and experiment with its style options before making the changes live on your site.

Different templates support unique features like page banners, background images, or index pages. To compare template options, visit our template comparison charts.

Switching templates preserves all pages and content, except for some template-specific features like footers. You can switch back to your old template if you don't like the new one.

How do style changes affect my version 7.0 site?

In version 7.0, saving a style change will affect your whole site, but you can make as many style changes as you like and preview them before saving. Each style tweak applies site-wide, wherever that element appears.

Also note that when you preview a template, some changes appear on your live site.

Reset your site's style settings

If you want to start over, but keep your site content intact, you can reset your template's style tweaks to their defaults. Fonts, colors, spacing, and other styles to how they displayed when you first created the site. This won't change your site's content or your website subscription. How you reset your style settings, depends on your site’s version:

Because fonts, colors, and other elements are styled individually, you can reset certain styles while keeping the rest of your color theme intact. For example, you could keep your current color theme but reset your font pack to default settings.

It’s not possible to reset individual section styles to their default. Instead, add a new section of the same type to start again with the default section styles, then move the blocks from the original section to the new section.

Reset fonts

To reset font styles:

  1. While editing a page, open Site styles, then click Fonts.
  2. Scroll to the bottom of the panel and click Reset Font Pack.
  3. Click Save to save your changes and keep editing, or click Exit and then Save to close the editor.

Reset colors

To return to a preset color palette:

  1. While editing a page, open Site styles, then click Colors.
  2. Select a preset palette, or click Customize, then click Edit Palette, and select your palette from the complete list of presets.
  3. Click Save to save your changes and keep editing, or click Exit and then Save to close the editor.

To reset a color theme:

  1. While editing a page, open Site styles, then click ＞ next to Colors.
  2. Under Section Color Themes, find your chosen theme and click the pencil icon.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the panel and click Reset Color Theme.
  4. Click Reset to confirm.
  5. Click Save to save your changes and keep editing, or click Exit and then Save to close the editor.

Other site elements

To reset the styles of other site elements, like spacing, button and image blocks, and product items:

  1. While editing a page, open Site styles.
  2. Click Spacing, Buttons, Image Blocks, or Product Items.
  3. At the bottom of the panel, click Reset Styles to Defaults.
  4. Click Reset to confirm.
  5. Click Save to save your changes and keep editing, or click Exit and then Save to close the editor.

Choose a new font or color pack

Instead of resetting your site styles, you can select a new font pack or a new color theme to refresh your site's look.

To reset site styles:

  1. Open the Site styles panel.
  2. Scroll to the bottom and click Reset Styles to Defaults.
  3. Review the confirmation message and click Reset.
  4. After saving site styles, your template will reset to its default styles. When you exit the Site styles panel, the change can’t be undone.

Delete and rebuild your site content

To restart your site on the same template and keep your style settings and website subscription the same, delete your site content then rebuild your site. How you delete your site’s content, depends on your site’s version:

Tip: If you want to reuse some of your current page section layouts, save them before deleting your pages.

To remove content from your site:

  1. Open the Pages panel.
  2. To delete a page, hover over the page and click the trash can icon. (You can also disable a page to hide it from visitors.)
  3. To remove content from page settings, such as a page title, click gear icon.
  4. To remove content from a page, click the page in the Pages panel, then click Edit.

Rebuild your site

To rebuild your pages with new pre-built layouts:

  1. Click Edit on the page, then click Add Section above or below any section.
  2. Click a section category and select a layout.
  3. After adding and editing content, click Save to save your changes and keep editing, or click Exit and then Save to close the editor.

To remove content from your site:

  1. Open the Pages panel.
  2. To delete a page, hover over the page and click the trash can icon. (You can also disable a page to hide it from visitors.)
  3. To remove content from page settings, such as a page title or description, click gear icon.
  4. To remove content from a page, click the page in the Pages panel, then click Edit.

Start a new trial site

To start with an entirely blank slate, you can create a new trial and build a new site from scratch. This is a good option if you're early on in building your site and haven't subscribed or added a lot of content yet.

If you have existing subscriptions attached to your site, we recommend redesigning your site instead. Keep in mind, if you have a version 7.0 site and choose to start a new trial site, the new site will be version 7.1.

To start a new trial site:

  1. Create a new trial and prepare any content on your existing site to move to the new site.
  2. If you have products, export them from your previous site, then import them to the new site.
  3. Copy any text and save any images from your existing site, then cancel it when you're ready.
  4. After building your new site, upgrade it to paid service.
  5. If you have a Squarespace domain subscription, you can move it to your new site. If the domain has an associated Google Workspace account, it moves with the domain.
  6. If you have other subscriptions associated with the previous site, you may need to cancel and resubscribe on the new site.
  7. If your old site had an annual subscription, you can fill out a refund form. Depending on the amount of time left in the subscription, you may be eligible for a prorated refund.

Move to a new version (Squarespace version 7.0 only)

If your site is on version 7.0 and you want to redesign it, consider moving to Squarespace version 7.1. Your content moves to the new site format and you get access to all of our latest features.

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