Squarespace AI: Your Shortcut to 5X Faster Website Creation
It’s hard to imagine where we’d be without artificial intelligence now!
Generative AI tools like Chat GPT, Midjourney, Gemini, and DALL.E all make it easy to create engaging, persuasive content.
The good news? Squarespace got in on the act with its own AI tool. Let’s look at how to use Squarespace AI and the exciting future plans for the tool.
What can you do with Squarespace AI?
Squarespace AI content generator
Squarespace AI is built directly into the Squarespace platform. It lets you generate text from prompts or rewrite text you’ve already written.
Here’s how to use it:
Create new text
Create a new text block and click the Lightning bolt button.
Squarespace AI will ask you to create a paragraph, pitch, or a blurb.
Write your prompt in the gray text box and click Write
Give Squarespace AI a little time to work its magic, and it will generate some text for you. Edit to your requirements, and you’re ready to go!
Update existing text
Go into an existing text block, highlight the text you want to refresh, and click the Lightning bolt button.
Squarespace AI will ask if you want to simplify, shorten, or lengthen your text.
Choose your option, and Squarespace AI will get to work changing your text. Tweak as needed, and that’s all there is to it!
Important note about Squarespace AI
As you might anticipate, Squarespace AI doesn’t take responsibility for any content generated and acknowledges that it might be inaccurate or biased. It also means you might get the same or similar content as another user.
This means it’s essential to check your content and amend it to suit your own unique needs.
Squarespace Blueprint
Squarespace Blueprint lets you create your own tailor-made website using AI.
It’s free to use if, although bear in mind that you can only publish your site if you’re on a paid Squarespace plan.
While there are professionally-designed templates available, Squarespace Blueprint gives you the opportunity to build templates that are bespoke to your brand and unique style.
It’s perfect if you want laser control over how your site looks, and you get to see how the changes you make will affect your brand-new site.
With over 1.4 billion possible design combinations, you’re sure to create a website that nobody else has!
How to get started with Squarespace Blueprint AI
Go to the Squarespace template page and choose Squarespace Blueprint
Click Let’s Go
Choose a name for your website
Build the individual elements on your homepage and choose how they’ll look
Choose which pages you want to add to your site
Pick a color scheme and font pairing
Add AI-generated copy to your pages (optional)
Add the final finishing touches to your new site, add images, and publish it
Using Squarespace AI to build the websites of the future
Squarespace AI is a fantastic way to punch up your text on the fly and create bespoke templates for your site. But it doesn’t stop there.
The Squarespace team is working on ways to use AI to help people create high-quality, professional websites.
Some of the ideas proposed include:
Automatically creating alt text for images for accessibility and SEO
Applying filters to all images on a website for consistency
Generating new images, using an existing image or a text prompt for inspiration
Removing the background from uploaded or generated images
Offering a variety of page layouts in Fluid Engine
Recommending sections to add to a page
Offering an AI assistant that can provide support to questions. For example, offering to buy a new domain, carrying out an SEO assessment, or scheduling an email campaign at the right time
While Squarespace works on these ideas, there are some cool ChatGPT plugins available which make it easier to create content.
What does this all mean?
It means you can use Squarespace AI to build your templates, write your content, create your images, and do your marketing, all with one click of a mouse button!
We’re fascinated by how people can use AI to create websites at Spark Plugin.
Stay tuned to our blog, and we’ll keep you up to date with all the latest developments when it comes to artificial intelligence and web building.
