Squarespace redesign for a Corporate Executive Coach
Michele had an existing Squarespace 7.0 site that she was looking to get upgraded to Squarespace 7.1. She and partner Brian have been in business for over 20 years and their website did not reflect their current brand message or offerings well. After previously trying to upgrade to 7.1 themselves without success they reached out to me for help.
As they had a lot of pages on their website, we focused on just a few for the Design Day including the Home page, About page and a new services page as well as cleaning up the site after the upgrade to 7.1
What we did on the Design Day:
arrow_circle_right upgraded site to 7.1 and redid sections as necessary to make them look good after the upgrade
arrow_circle_right working with the brand guide, I implemented some new graphics on the site and updated the main heading font
arrow_circle_right complete redesign of the Home page, About page and added a new services page
event Duration: 1 day
*** after the Design Day I was also hired to set up some courses in the back end of their site using the new Course feature in Squarespace 7.1
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The website after the Design Day
“Run – don’t walk – to book Jodi for a Design Day!”
“Our Squarespace site was launched well over a decade ago (2011) and we have made only minor changes to it since then. It was l-o-n-g overdue for an overhaul and transition to version 7.1. My previous attempt to migrate our site from version 7.0 to 7.1 a year or two ago was fraught with frustration to the point that I abandoned my efforts. What was advertised as an easy and seamless process was arduous and created a Frankenstein’s Monster of a new site, and it was beyond my considerable experience with Squarespace to sort it out without great effort. The prospect of having an Jodi take on this task to complete both the transition to 7.1 and to overhaul our website in a single day was fantastic, so we jumped at her offer.
My experience with Jodi was exceptional at every turn, from the on-boarding process, to the pre-Design Day guidance, preparation and communications with her, to the incredibly easy and remarkably efficient Design Day, itself, to the next day follow-up. I could not have imagined a better experience. Where I had previously failed, her migration process had our website looking very much like it had in the version 7.0 template we had been using … and THEN the magic started! Jodi’s design aesthetic and technical expertise made short work of updating and vastly improving the look and feel of our website. We worked closely together through live chat to, review, test and revise elements of the refreshed website, collaborating and co-creating solutions, which ensured that the finished product exceeded our expectations.”
— B. SOREGAROLI
What was your favorite part about the Day?
Collaborating and co-creating solutions with Jodi in real time … trying different approaches and tools and leaning into her expertise to show me what was possible and build from there. And just watching it all unfold so seamlessly and quickly, and having it all come to fruition with a ready to launch, migrated and overhauled website at the end of just one day.
How do you feel about your website after the Design Day?
We are delighted with our refurbished website, and excited that it is no longer just an online brochure, but that it now tells our story in a compelling way that is very much aligned with our brand. Jodi’s expertise, speed and efficiency are the reasons that we were able to accomplish our all of our goals for the day. I expected that we would get the basic framework completed on the Design Day and that I would then have to spend several days finishing up various secondary pages and clean-up tasks before the new site could go live. But no. It was all done in ONE. SINGLE. DAY. Jodi finished up with her testing the site the next morning and the site was live well before noon. There was literally NOTHING for me to do to get it across the line. Simply amazing!

“Jodi make it all simple and easy. Do not hesitate to engage Jodi for a Design Day. Whatever you think you might be signing up for, you will woeful underestimate what you will actually get from the experience, and delighted by both the process and the results. Do you like to fight through the weeds and spend time learning things you will never need to know, again? Right. No one does. Jodi does all of those things for you, so you can focus on bringing your vision for your website to life. It was like giving birth without the labour. At the end of the Design Day, I was thinking, “That’s it? It’s done? I don’t still have hours and days ahead of me to take care of all the things we didn’t get to?” It was quite surreal.”
And in case you are still not sold, to give you a sense of what I was experiencing during my Design Day session with Jodi, here are a few of my actual comments that I have excerpted directly (unedited) from our online chat:
Great start, by the way! You are amazing!!
Perfect! Thank you! I am really appreciating this process! You really have it DOWN!!
(YOU ARE AMAZING!!!)
You are INCREDIBLE, Jodi!!! I cannot believe how much you have been able to get done for us in just a single day! As promised, but so much more, as well!
You are such a STAR!!!! THANK YOU!!!
Thank you, again! You are phenomenal! It has been such a pleasure to work with you, today.
— B. SOREGAROLI