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What Mycelium isMycelium is one of Squarespace's own free 7.1 templates, built on Fluid Engine and styled as a small print shop for a landscape photographer. The demo is dark and quiet: near-black backgrounds, a red accent, lower-case type and moody photographs of Icelandic coastlines, riverbeds and hot springs. The old listing on this page described a four page portfolio with Home, About, Portfolio and Contact pages; the actual demo is three pages and the middle one is a shop. If you want to sell prints from a minimal, image-led site, this is one of the few free Squarespace templates built around that.What it doesThe pages in the demo are Home, Prints and Contact. Home is a full-bleed image page with a short line of copy and a link into the shop. Prints is a standard Squarespace store page with six sample products, each a landscape print with its own product page, price field, variants and add to cart button, so you inherit a working checkout rather than a gallery pretending to be one. Contact is a simple form page. There is no About page in the demo, no blog and no portfolio collection; the shop grid does the job of the portfolio. Because it is Fluid Engine, every section is drag and drop, and the dark palette, red accent and type all live in Site Styles.Who it suitsLandscape, fine art and travel photographers who want to sell prints, illustrators and printmakers with a small catalogue, and anyone who wants a dark, image-first store with very little chrome. It works as a side shop for a photographer whose main portfolio lives elsewhere, and it scales to a few dozen products before the single grid starts to feel crowded.One honest caveatSelling anything on Squarespace needs a Business plan or higher (Personal does not include commerce), and Business takes a transaction fee on top of card processing; if you plan to sell more than a handful of prints a month, price the Commerce plans first. The demo also has no About page, so you will build the story of who you are yourself, and the dark palette only works with strong, consistent imagery. Print fulfilment is not part of the template: Squarespace's built-in commerce handles orders, but printing and shipping is your problem, or a print-on-demand extension's.SetupMycelium is free and included with every Squarespace plan, but you need Business or above to take payments. You choose it when you start a new site, or preview the demo and click to start from it. There is no licence to buy and nothing to install. Squarespace 7.1 does not let you switch templates on an existing site, so if you already have a 7.1 site you would start a fresh trial from Mycelium and move your content across. Plan for one to three hours to replace the six demo products and the home and contact copy, plus time to connect a payment processor and set up shipping.Related guideSee how Mycelium compares with paid designer templates in my roundup of the best Squarespace templates for photographers, or browse the templates for photographers collection and the full Squarespace templates list. If you are weighing a free Squarespace template against a designer template, read my guide on how to choose the right Squarespace template.

Luminara offers photographers a focused showcase with its streamlined layouts and gallery options. Designed with Squarespace 7.1, it prioritizes readability and spacing over decorative elements. Ideal for those seeking a photography-centric site structure, it allows for easy customization while keeping a polished, minimalist aesthetic.

Galena focuses on showcasing fashion and beauty products through its intuitive display and lookbook layouts. The template prioritizes readability with clear typography and organized spacing. Ideal for brands wanting a robust visual presence, it allows for easy adjustments in Site Styles, making it a suitable choice for Squarespace 7.1 users in this niche.

Lusaka is a free Squarespace 7.1 template, and the demo is not a course site or a school. It is a fictional education non-profit, The Lusaka Foundation, which supports teachers and students: three programme pages, a vision page, a team page, a blog and a Donate page with a donation block. If you run a charity, foundation or community organisation and need to explain your programmes and take donations, Lusaka's structure is a closer match than most of the other free templates. What is included Eight pages in the navigation: Materials for Learning, Education for Teachers and Support for Communities (grouped under a Projects folder), Our Vision, Our Team, Blog, Donate, plus the home page. Home introduces the mission, summarises the three programmes with Learn More links, carries a quote from a school principal, and closes with contact details. Donate uses Squarespace's native donation block with preset amounts and a custom amount field. Our Team is a people grid with portraits and short bios. Who it suits Charities, foundations, NGOs, community groups, school trusts and education initiatives. The programme, vision, team and donate pattern is what most small non-profits ask me for, and it is all here. It could also be adapted by a training organisation or a social enterprise with a small set of services. Trade-offs Two caveats. The demo body copy is almost entirely lorem ipsum, so this is a structure to fill rather than copy to edit. And the donation block needs a Squarespace plan that supports donations and a connected payment processor before it takes a penny; it is not switched on by default. The visual style is clean and neutral rather than distinctive, which is fine for a non-profit but means the photography has to carry the personality. How it installs Open the template on squarespace.com and start with the design. Squarespace creates a trial site with the demo pages in place. The template is free; you pay for a Squarespace plan when you publish, and you will want a plan that supports the donation block if you intend to use it. It runs on 7.1 with Fluid Engine. Related guide: browse our Squarespace templates for non-profits, or read the best free Squarespace templates in 2026.

Ortiz offers photographers an image-centric layout with minimal design, featuring strong hero sections and flexible gallery options. The template supports effective portfolio presentation, prioritizing visual storytelling without unnecessary clutter. Ideal for those showcasing photography work, it allows for easy customization to fit unique brand narratives on Squarespace 7.1.

What Brower isBrower is one of Squarespace's own free 7.1 Fluid Engine templates, and it is a food blog, not a restaurant site. The homepage is a masonry Blog collection with fourteen sample posts, the About page introduces "a food knowledge sharing community", and Contact is a single page. The old listing on this page described a restaurant template with menus, bookings and galleries; that was wrong. There is no menu page, no reservations block and no gallery in the demo.What it doesThe homepage blog uses Squarespace's masonry layout with author, date, excerpt and a Read More link on each card, so a food writer or recipe developer can publish straight into a layout that already handles mixed image heights. Each post is a normal blog post with categories, tags, comments and sharing available in the settings. The About page is a plain Fluid Engine page with text and imagery (the demo photography was shot at the New York restaurant Buvette), and Contact is ready for a form block. A newsletter sign up sits in the footer for building a list. As with every Squarespace template, fonts, colours and spacing are edited in Site Styles.Who it suitsFood writers, recipe bloggers, restaurant critics, cookery teachers and small food communities who want the writing front and centre. It is also a decent base for a cafe or bakery that mainly wants a journal and a contact page, provided you are willing to add the commercial pages yourself.One honest caveatIf you run a restaurant this is the wrong starting point. There is no menu block, no reservation or table booking integration, no opening hours section and no gallery in the demo, and the homepage being a Blog collection means the first thing visitors see is your latest post rather than a hero with your location and hours. All of that can be built, but at that point another Squarespace template will get you there faster.SetupBrower is free and included with every Squarespace plan. Start a trial from the Squarespace templates page, choose Brower and the sample posts are loaded for you to replace. No licence and no install. The footer newsletter block needs a storage connection such as Squarespace Email Campaigns or Mailchimp before it will collect addresses, and Commerce or custom code need a Core plan or higher.Related guideBrowse the templates for food and drink brands sub-collection or the full Squarespace templates collection, and read my guide on how to choose the right Squarespace template before settling on a free one.

Meriden is one of Squarespace's own free 7.1 templates, built on Fluid Engine and styled as the website of a life coach. The demo site is called Meriden Life Coaching: a warm orange and neutral palette, big serif headlines and a confident first-person tone. The pages in the demo nav are Home, Courses, Work with Me, Podcast and About, plus a Free Consultation button in the header. The home page sets out the coaching method in three steps (Focus, Reflect, Refine), promotes an upcoming virtual course and ends with a newsletter sign-up. The header also carries a customer login and a cart, so Courses is set up to sell rather than just list. Who it suits Life coaches first, then relationship, career and mindset coaches, and anyone who sells a mix of one-to-one sessions, courses and a podcast. If your business runs on a free discovery call and an email list, the demo already has that funnel in place. I would not pick it for a fitness studio, whatever older listings said. One honest caveat Meriden is a starting layout, not a finished site. Every image and line of copy is a placeholder, there is no custom code, and the Courses and Podcast pages only do their job once you have set up Squarespace Courses and connected a podcast feed. Selling courses also depends on the plan you are on, so check that before you build around that page. Setting it up Choose Meriden in Squarespace's template picker when you start a new site, or open the demo and start from it. Then swap the demo text and photographs, delete the sections you do not need and edit the rest with the drag and drop Fluid Engine editor; colours and type live in Site Styles. It sits in my free Squarespace templates collection, and you can compare it with paid designs in the Squarespace templates for coaches collection.

Transform your online identity with this sleek Squarespace template, perfect for businesses and creatives. Its modern design enhances user engagement and is fully customizable to match your brand. Optimized for mobile, it effortlessly integrates with Squarespace features, making it ideal for showcasing portfolios, services, or launching an online store.