custom Squarespace website design
custom Squarespace website design

About Backyard Creative

I build beautiful Squarespace websites for creatives, coaches, and causes.

Just some of my clients

From idea to reality, from start to finish.

Over the past seven years I’ve built over 100 Squarespace websites for determined, creative, resourceful business owners just like you. Sometimes all you need isn’t another YouTube tutorial, but a real live person who has been there before and learned a trick or two to help translate your ideas into reality.

Squarespace Services

  • Squarespace Design

    If you need a new or refreshed Squarespace website or would like to migrate from another platform (like WordPress) — I can help.

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  • One Day Design

    Hire me for a day. We’ll use the time in a way that serves you best — overhaul your website, get hands-on training, or add a blog.

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  • One Hour Design

    Tearing your hair out trying to figure something out? Hire a Squarespace designer for an hour and save your sanity.

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  • "Claire built me a thoughtfully designed, functional, and gorgeous website for my business. She is very communicative and has great ideas."

    — Dalis Sierra, Photographer, Pacific Northwest

  • "Claire is an incredible designer and an even more amazing individual. She is patient, kind, and thorough with an uncanny ability to keep things straightforward and elegantly simple. If you have the opportunity, seek out her services. I am a huge fan of her aesthetic and her coaching abilities. A true gem."

    — Maria Tuttle, Artist + Art Educator, San Francisco

  • "Claire was easy to work with and did excellent work."

    — Per Sjöfors, Thought Leader, California

  • “Claire did a wonderful job with my website. She was efficient, clear, and helpful, and changes were done almost immediately. She also quickly managed all the various domain issues. I'd recommend her to anyone.”

    — Dr. David Raffle, Raffle Brain Institute, Indiana

  • “Claire was inventive and thorough. She had great ideas about how to get what I wanted. She wanted me to be happy with the design and didn't rest till I was. I'm very pleased with the site she created.”

    — Jeremiah Crowell, Film Producer, UK

  • "Claire has a fantastic design aesthetic and is easy to work with. She designed my website in record time and produced a beautiful and unique site that I am really proud of."

    — Bradlee Roffers, Retreat Designer, Austin

  • “Claire was an excellent communicator and designer. She listened to our requests and worked hard to redesign our very outdated website into a professional, modern, clean design.”

    — Dr Brendan Carmel, Exotic Pet Vet, Melbourne

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On the Blog

The bit about me! 👋🏼

It’s me, Claire

For the last eight years, I’ve helped over one hundred bloggers, photographers, architects, entrepreneurs, schools, non-profits — and once upon a time a Saudi Prince — build an online presence they are proud of. My blog, with over 150 blog posts, consistently ranks at the top of Google results for Squarespace in Africa; I’m a Squarespace Circle member and an official Squarespace Expert, and I also partner with the international design platform 99Designs as one of their top-level designers. Whew.

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