Read this before you quote the work
Squarespace is a closed system: there is no route by which an exported site becomes a Squarespace site. Custom CSS is available on the business plans and code blocks can hold small fragments, but the layout must be rebuilt in their editor. Worth being direct — if the goal was to escape a hosted builder's monthly bill, moving to another hosted builder does not achieve it.
The order that works
- 1Use the export to extract the design tokens and copy.
- 2Pick the Squarespace template whose structure is closest to the original layout.
- 3Apply colours, type, and spacing through the site styles panel, and the remainder via Custom CSS.
- 4Rebuild sections with native blocks — avoid pasting large HTML fragments into code blocks.
What you keep
- Copy, imagery, and the design direction
What you rebuild
- The layout implementation
- All interactions
- Any pixel-exactness
The mistake to avoid
Pasting whole exported sections into code blocks to save time. They break on mobile, they are invisible to the Squarespace editor, and the client cannot maintain them.
Questions
›Can I import a Framer site directly into Squarespace?
Squarespace is a closed system: there is no route by which an exported site becomes a Squarespace site. Custom CSS is available on the business plans and code blocks can hold small fragments, but the layout must be rebuilt in their editor. Worth being direct — if the goal was to escape a hosted builder's monthly bill, moving to another hosted builder does not achieve it.
›What transfers from Framer to Squarespace?
Copy, imagery, and the design direction.
›What has to be rebuilt?
The layout implementation. All interactions. Any pixel-exactness.
›What is the most common mistake on this migration?
Pasting whole exported sections into code blocks to save time. They break on mobile, they are invisible to the Squarespace editor, and the client cannot maintain them.