Signify

Signify is a Squarespace 7.1 template by GoLive built for creative and marketing studios that need to show their work. The demo is a branding, packaging and web design studio: the home page opens on four featured projects, then a welcome, a benefits section, three service blocks, testimonials and a call to book. GoLive file it as a digital marketing template. It is a full studio website, not the campaign landing page builder older listings described.

What you get

• Ten page layouts: Home, About, Portfolio (layout one) with Portfolio Item, Portfolio (layout two) with a second Portfolio Item, Services, Blog, Blog Post and Contact
• Squarespace 7.1 with Fluid Engine, so sections are drag and drop in the standard editor
• Two ways to present work: a portfolio collection with a case-study page per project, and a category-filtered grid built on a blog collection
• A Services page with room for three or more offers, and a Blog for articles or news
• A black, white and warm neutral palette that changes in the Squarespace style editor, no code needed
• A contact form and newsletter sign-up, plus GoLive's free five-day customisation course, customer community and unlimited email and Loom support

Who it suits

Branding and packaging designers, web design studios, marketing agencies and freelancers whose work is visual and sold as a service. The two portfolio layouts are the reason to pick Signify over GoLive's other service templates: use the case-study version for a few deep projects, or the filtered grid when you have many pieces across categories.

Honest limits

There is no shop and no built-in scheduling; the Book a call button leads to a form, so live booking means embedding Acuity or similar. Having two portfolio systems is useful to choose from but you will likely delete one, and the second is a blog collection wearing a portfolio label, which needs care with categories. The home page leads with work, so a studio with a thin portfolio will find it exposing. GoLive's sales pages are templated, so judge the template from its demo rather than the sales copy.

How it is delivered

Within 24 hours of purchase GoLive send a contributor invite to a new Squarespace trial site with Signify installed. If you already have a Squarespace 7.1 site they can install the pages into it as a paid add-on. You customise fonts, colours, images and text in the standard editor, then subscribe to a plan when you are ready to publish. GoLive customers get an extended six-month Squarespace trial and 20 per cent off the first year of an annual plan.

Related guide: read our roundup of the best Squarespace templates for service businesses, or browse every template we list in the Squarespace templates hub.