PandaCodeGen / Squarespace website design, redesign & migration
Build or redesign a Squarespace website around your services, content and enquiries. If layouts, editing or connected tools are getting in the way, we compare improvements with a custom site and Sanity editor before you choose.
01 / See the work
Emblematic Studio shows our custom design and implementation work. Its review belongs to this project.
Project / Emblematic Studio
A custom site shaped around the brand, its work and its enquiry journey.
This is an independent client website, not a Squarespace migration case study. Your export and content requirements need their own review.
The client, in their own words
“It looks premium, loads fast, and perfectly captures Emblematic Studio's brand.”
02 / Review your site
We review the design, mobile pages, content, forms and scheduling. A redesign can stay on Squarespace; a move needs a separate plan for the features and content your team relies on.
Identify the layouts and editorial changes your current setup cannot support cleanly.
Map Squarespace Commerce products, payments, enquiries, Member Areas and scheduling where used. Agree what carries over and test the customer journeys included in the move.
Compare the current plan and add-ons with hosting, CMS and support for a proposed rebuild.
Record URLs, metadata, media and any content that needs a manual move.
What the proposal resolves
The plan distinguishes reusable content from platform features that need another way to work.
Inventory the pages, posts, authors, dates, images and page metadata in scope. Check the export and list manual cleanup before promising a content transfer.
Products, checkout, Member Areas and Squarespace Scheduling may involve separate accounts or customer data. Agree what stays, what connects to the new site and what needs rebuilding or migrating.
Review Fluid Engine layouts and responsive behaviour with real pages. Choose editable fields and collections for routine updates, then let your team try them on the preview.
Compare the current plan and add-ons with future hosting, content editing, connected services and support. Map old addresses, test forms and agree the domain switch and fallback steps.
Website SEO / Search and AI access
Clear service pages, readable answers and consistent links matter whether you stay on Squarespace or rebuild elsewhere. We review the existing site before recommending the next step.
Need ongoing buyer research, page improvements and visibility reporting? AI search services are optional monthly work, scoped separately from the build. Search systems choose which pages they index or cite.
03 / Make the right call
We recommend the scope that addresses the evidence from your site and team, then put the work and boundaries in writing.
Use the current platform when a design or content adjustment meets the need.
Agree the new editing model, content and connected tools before rebuilding.
04 / From call to handover
Each stage creates something you can review. Your proposal names the deliverables and the point where you accept them.
List pages, collections, forms, products and connected services.
Define content fields, layouts and which accounts your team will control.
Compare agreed pages and journeys on staging with representative content.
Check old addresses, enquiries and live behaviour after launch.
05 / Published starting point
From $1,500
Starting point, not an instant quote.
A smaller site can start at Starter. Content volume, commerce and integrations change the scope. We include operating costs and responsibilities in the proposal.
Content and assets to carry across.
Forms, payments and third-party services.
Editing, accounts and ongoing costs.
After launch
The build is a one-off. These are the bills that continue, so add them up before you compare quotes.
Squarespace plan
Your billing pageExtensions
Each extension's billingDomain and email
Renewal emailsHelp and changes
Your own recordsThat total is what any change has to beat, so it's the figure we quote against.
06 / Ownership & exports
Squarespace lets you download some website content, but the download does not include the design or every page type. Photos, products and order records need their own checks. Moving to a new platform is therefore a content move and a rebuild, rather than a complete copy of the existing website.
Your project handover
You receive the project code and design files we create for you, plus documentation and control of the production accounts. If you then take a monthly support or care plan, that doesn't change: we keep sharing the code, documentation and accounts with you, so you always have your own copy. Third-party themes, plugins, services and assets remain under their own licence terms.
Squarespace can export some content in a file intended for WordPress, but it does not export the website design, styling or every page type. Store information uses separate downloads. A move to another platform therefore needs a rebuild and a content check, rather than treating the export as a finished website.
Squarespace's website export includes one blog and supported text and image blocks, with limits on what it carries. Images still need checking and some files may need downloading separately. Before cancelling Squarespace, compare the copied pages and files with the live site so missing content can be recovered while access is available.
Read each row for the scope and source.
| Website assets | Squarespace | Your PandaCodeGen build |
|---|---|---|
| Website design and files | Stays The export is a content file formatted for WordPress of some of the content. Design and styling don't come with it, because many features rely on Squarespace's own code. Squarespace docs on Squarespace, website design and files (opens in a new tab) ↗ | Yours You receive the website code and design files we create for you. Custom builds use the open-source Next.js framework. Third-party themes, plugins and services keep their own licence terms. Next.js licence on website design and files (opens in a new tab) ↗ |
| Website pages | Partly Layout pages with text and image blocks export. Album, cover, index, calendar, portfolio and store pages don't. Trial sites can't export at all. Squarespace docs on Squarespace, website pages (opens in a new tab) ↗ | Yours With Sanity, your page content and available uploaded files can be downloaded together. Missing or inaccessible files need separate recovery. WordPress builds use WordPress's content download; text built into the website files comes with those files. Sanity export docs on website pages (opens in a new tab) ↗ |
| Blog posts | Partly One blog page exports with its posts and up to 1,000 comments per post. Any other blog pages stay behind. Squarespace docs on Squarespace, blog posts (opens in a new tab) ↗ | Yours Blog posts are in the same content export as your pages. Sanity export docs on blog posts (opens in a new tab) ↗ |
| Products | Exports Commerce products export to an editable spreadsheet, up to 10,000 products. Squarespace docs on Squarespace, products (opens in a new tab) ↗ | In your account Kept in the store system or database your proposal names, under accounts you control, so you can export it from there. If a new storefront keeps Shopify or WooCommerce behind it, that platform's column still applies. |
| Customers and contacts | Exports Contacts export to a spreadsheet file. Notes and saved addresses aren't included, apart from the last address used on a physical order. Squarespace docs on Squarespace, customers and contacts (opens in a new tab) ↗ | In your account In the same store system or database as your products, under accounts you control. |
| Past orders | Exports Orders export to a spreadsheet file on every plan. Squarespace docs on Squarespace, past orders (opens in a new tab) ↗ | In your account In the same store system or database as your products, under accounts you control. |
| Images and files | Partly Images and uploaded videos don't export in bulk. Images download one at a time from the Asset library. Squarespace docs on Squarespace, images and files (opens in a new tab) ↗ | Yours Available images and files uploaded to Sanity come with the content download. Check the download for missing files. Images built into the design are part of the website files you receive. Sanity export docs on images and files (opens in a new tab) ↗ |
| Website address (domain) | Exports A Squarespace domain can move to another provider once it has no active lock. New registrations carry a 60-day lock. Squarespace docs on Squarespace, website address (domain) (opens in a new tab) ↗Second source on Squarespace, website address (domain) (opens in a new tab) ↗ | In your account Control of the production accounts is part of handover. Hosting moves to your own account on request or when an engagement ends. |
The project code and design files we create for you.
Instructions handed over with the project files. If you take a care plan later, we keep sharing the documentation with you.
An editing walkthrough at handover, so your team can update the site. Every build that uses Sanity includes training on Sanity Studio and written documentation for it. On Starter, the content editor is set up, documented, and we train you on it.
Control of the production accounts. Hosting moves to your own account on request or when an engagement ends.
Your build keeps working without a PandaCodeGen care plan. Hosting and other provider services still need their own arrangements.
Licence notes, from the same check:
Vendor columns describe each platform's own documented tools, read on 8 October 2026. Plans and export tools change, so check the linked page before you rely on a row. Our column comes from our published terms; your written proposal states the details for your project, including any third-party licences.
07 / Before you decide
These are starting answers. Project-specific details belong in the written proposal.
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