Best Squarespace templates for mobile websites

For touring musicians, a mobile-friendly site is key for discoverability. On the mobile version of Aria, your viewers will be pulled in by a top lead photo and an event calendar, which you can use to highlight upcoming gigs and events. Aria also supports different styles for eCommerce information, so you can customize your merch page.

Part of the Brine family, Aria has extra customizable features for mobile sites, like adjusting the weight and color of icons and text when they appear on mobile. You can also set the point at which the website width makes the switch. Musicians may want to fix the top banner, so you can be sure the user sees your name as they scroll. The option to add a secondary navigation bar can also be handy for making sure important pages can be found by the right people, but won’t take away from your main brand message. These menu items appear at the top of the screen on the desktop, but on mobile, it’s just under the main navigation buttons of the sidebar, but the font can be customized to be less or more pronounced.

If you’re running an online store, the mobile version of your website should be easy to browse without individual photos taking up too much real estate. Galapagos is a perfect template to do this. Unlike the Farro template, the adjustability of the grid works as well as it does for mobile as it does on desktop, giving you the option to change the product size and spacing, as well as select the style of extra product information to appear as an overlay, box, corner, or tag. Setting your product to the smallest size (1.8) and changing the grid style can help you fit even more on the front page.

The beauty of this layout is that even if you are trying to push as many items to the top of the page as possible, it still looks organized as long as you’re using product photos with a solid background. Individual product pages also adapt easily to mobile with large photographs to ease the online shopping experience for any potential customers. Galapagos is also one of the only templates that lets you add a second logo in the top bar of the mobile navigation bar. If you have a minimalistic version of your main logo, this is a nice place to use it.

If you want every blog post to feel like it’s from the pages of a magazine, Farro is a great way to give your work an editorialized look, adjusted to your personal style and brand. Not only can you customize the positioning and colors of your navigation menu, but you can also change the style of the blog list, opting for different aspect ratios, which can enhance the overall look of your website.

Fashion bloggers might prefer the 2:3 ratio for showing off head-to-toe styles, while travel writers can feature sprawling landscapes with the more cinematic 2.40 Anamorphic Widescreen. This ratio also has a very cool revealing effect when looking at your page from a computer. Text placement and the color and style of any overlays you may want to add are also customizable on posts in the mobile view. The only downside is that on mobile, you are stuck with the stacked organization of blog posts, while the desktop version has more layout options.

If you only have one website to display the breadth of your many talents, you’ll need a mobile homepage that can easily help viewers navigate the many interests and projects you have going for you. York is a classic template and made for doing just this. The intro text at the top is your chance to tell the world who you are, giving them a sneak peek of your multi-faceted portfolio below.

The mobile version of York has some options for customization, such as being able to affix the navigation and title bar to the top or bottom of the screen and toggle the transparency. You can also change the width of the logo and the color of the menu icon. York’s mobile menu is quite bold, capturing the whole screen in one click. Try changing the color of the menu background for an effect that will more easily grab viewers.

You don’t need to have a blog or extra informational pages, just because you need a landing page for your business. Aviator is a great template for keeping things simple and highlighting key information and there are a few customizations for mobile versions.

The welcome page of this template leaves just enough room to share your logo and a tagline on top of a beautiful full bleed photograph. The logo size is adjustable and the background image can be turned on and off for the mobile experience. Aviator gives you a smaller space to work with, but at least it won’t look cluttered. If you’re struggling to get that background image to shine through, try adjusting the overlay color to something with a lighter opacity.

While business cards can easily get lost in the rush of a conference, a website that’s professional and exciting to look at can make a lasting impression. The Nueva template does just that with splashy titles and a lot of room to share your brand statements and testimonials. With so many customizable features for mobile, it’s easy to integrate your brand aesthetic into every part of this template’s mobile experience. 

When it comes to mobile presentation, Nueva is the shining star of the ultra-customizable Brine family of templates. With the ability to adjust the mobile breakpoint and parallax images, this template will make your site a pleasure to scroll through. That being said, this platform would be best utilized by small businesses that have strong visuals that can represent their products or services. 

No worries if you don’t have a lot of strong visuals to accompany your content. Tudor is a layout that can draw in readers on the substance of your writing alone, but still looks good when you do want to add a photograph. 

When publishing articles from multiple contributors or writing about a variety of topics, it’s easy to organize your content within the home page which looks clean on mobile. Each blog post is designed to shine on its own and you can make the details of each post, like the circular date callout, really pop. In mobile, the Tudor layout organizes itself, automatically moving the navigation bar to the bottom. This way, it’s always within your readers’ reach. However, you’ll notice there are not quite as many options for mobile-only customizations.

If you’re a visual artist who specializes in different niches, the Carson template can help you make a strong first impression. It also comes with a few special tweaks for the mobile version. 

With this template, your navigation menu is the main event and as you hover over each item (in a desktop view), the background photo changes. This is a great way to quickly represent the variety of your services or projects in a visual manner. On the mobile version of this template, the photos will flip through each category automatically, which heightens the oomph factor. You can customize the mobile appearance to scale the width of the size and menu fonts, with an option to customize this for tablet-sized versions of your website also.

Much like the Carson template in the same family, the Tremont features a flashing front page design that works great on mobile but offers a more classic look with navigation items listed horizontally rather than vertically. This is a better template choice for restaurants that want to display their different menus while getting their customers hungry with glossy photos.

The top description above the index is a good spot to present the key information potential customers may be visiting your website for — such as an address or phone number. While the photos flash between the different index items and photographs, this information will stay constant. If you have more pages to include, like a history or contact page, but don’t want to clutter the initial effect, you can organize them under the secondary menu that stays present at the top of the page.

If you need a simple landing page for your event, the Royce template is a streamlined way to present essential information, as it does not rely on the need to have a lot of photography or informational pages. At the top of the page, you can use one strong photograph and a title to set the stage for your event, and an RSVP button that will take up the whole screen when clicked. 

Below, there’s room to add more key information, a description of the event, and any other fun details you may want to mention. Being a part of the Brine family of design, Royce has the option to fix the title banner to the top or bottom of the page on mobile, which is also a good way to keep your brand ever-present in the reader’s view as they peruse event details.

By now, you've probably noticed that the Brine family is a favorite not just for the sleek look of its templates but also its mobile-friendliness. In line with the rest of the family, the namesake Brine template adjusts to fit any screen and uses parallax scrolling to give off the look of depth and sleekness when a visitor is scrolling.

One of Brine's strongest sides is its e-commerce capabilities — a full-width banner gives an overview of your offering while the Shop feature allows you to display different products with an "add to cart" function that makes this template the ideal choice for those with a small store as it makes it easy to jump right in and get started.

The ability to zoom in and out (as well as intuitive navigation between the store and the cart) make it incredibly easy for anyone who comes to your site to buy something directly from a mobile device. But if you have your own vision for how the mobile version should look, fear not: Brine also makes it easy to toggle around with and make changes without disturbing the desktop display — for example, making a logo larger or swapping out the background.