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How I Create & Apply Color Palettes for Custom Websites on Squarespace
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Does Google know your Squarespace website even exists yet?
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Squarespace Tips Katelyn Dekle Squarespace Tips Katelyn Dekle

The Brine family are still the best 7.0 Squarespace templates

People always want to know how to pick a Squarespace template, or which is the best template.

While it does depend on what features you actually want to have on your website (whether you want a side bar, pre-footer, full-width banners, buttons & content on your banner images, etc.), my go-to is still the 7.0 Brine family of templates.

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