Lotus Live Design Creative is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Marin County, and offers expert website design, branding, SEO and marketing services

Serving Marin, the San Francisco Bay Area & Beyond

Integrated Squarespace Website Design, Branding, and SEO

Lotus Live Design Creative Studio creates Squarespace websites that bring your brand, content, and SEO into one coherent system. You get a visually compelling online presence that is designed to be found in search, to convert the right clients, and to stay easy to manage as your business grows.

Squarespace Circle Gold Partner • Best of Marin award winner • Serving clients since 2010

Lotus Live Design Creative Agency Mandala

“The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.”

— Pema Chödrön


Grow Your Brand With Coherence

Hi. I’m Anna Trueman. After two decades plus of experience in web design, I’ve found that most businesses do not need more marketing noise. They need alignment. Clear positioning, cohesive visuals, an intuitive website structure, and SEO built strategically into every page from the start.

I design Squarespace websites with focused intention on connecting brand clarity, content, SEO, and the tools behind the scenes into one coherent system that carries your valuable vision and voice. Your website will support how you work and help the right audience find you through search, including AI powered search tools.

You can expect your website to include:

  • Clear site architecture designed for user experience and conversion

  • On page SEO, content structure, and technical SEO built into each page

  • Brand consistency across pages, offers, and messaging

  • A foundation that can scale as your business grows

  • Mobile optimization and strong performance

  • Integrated features and tools that make running your business easier

  • Advanced customizations, motion, and details that elevate the experience

Every element is designed to work together, so your website becomes a digital ecosystem you can grow with, including content, SEO, and integrated tools.

Anna Trueman Gold Circle Squarespace Expert Website Designer, Branding, SEO & Marketing

Results Driven Web Design and SEO


A beautiful website is only one part of growth. To be discovered online, your site needs the right structure, the right content, and SEO best practices throughout. SEO is not an add on. It is an essential part of marketing that harmonizes your page intent, headings, internal linking, metadata, and overall site architecture.

The goal is coherence. Your visual style, images, pages, keywords, and the rest of your content work together so your mission and message come through clearly.

This helps the right audience find you, feel aligned, and follow through.

You’ll have a unique, custom, website with everything you need to grow your business integrated into it, simplifying your operations and marketing, saving money and, most importantly, saving you time!

Interested in pricing and project options? Keep scrolling down!

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

—Rumi Jalalu'l-Din

Some Projects

Cell Code: A Doctor's Website Website Design, Branding Project Case Study

Cell Code:
Branding, Website Design for a doctor

Volume 21 Architecture Website, Branding Project By Lotus Live Design Creative Agency, Marin, San Francisco Bay Area

Volume 21 ARCHITECTURE:
Website deisgn for an architect

SkinLab Website, Branding, SEO Project By Lotus Live Design Creative Agency Marin, San Francisco Bay Area

SkinLab: Branding, Website Design, SEO, Advanced Integrations and Customizations for an esthetician

Resonant Technology Group: Branding, Website, Multiple Company’s Branding, Pitch Decks for a tech Company

Chris Gralapp Medical & Scientific Illustration Website, Branding Project By Lotus Live Design Creative Agency Marin, San Francisco Bay Area

Chris Gralapp Medical & Scientific Illustration: Branding, Website Design for an Illustrator

Art By Lucinda Sausalito Website, Branding, SEO Project by Lotus Live Design Creative Studio

Art By Lucinda: Website Deisgn, Branding, Advanced Customizations for a Fine Artist and Art INstructor

Services, Systems & Project Options

Choose a focused scope now, then expand later. Many clients begin with a website launch or redesign, then add SEO support, content development, ecommerce, scheduling, or more advanced functionality. This can happen during the initial design and development, or through strategic phases over time.


Website Design and Development

  • Squarespace website design and development

  • Website redesigns and site architecture planning

  • Mobile optimized design included with every website

  • User experience and UI design for clear navigation and conversion

  • Appointments and live class scheduling systems

Branding, Visual Design, and Collateral

  • Brand identity and logo design

  • Graphic design for print and digital, including business cards, brochures, booklets, postcards, and signage

  • Pitch decks and presentation design

SEO and Content Strategy

  • SEO services, including on page SEO, technical SEO basics, and metadata additions

  • Copywriting, editing, and messaging refinement

  • Content creation and content organization

  • Blog strategy support and SEO friendly blogging setup

Ecommerce and Online Sales Systems

  • Ecommerce setup for products and services, including physical products, subscriptions, and digital products

  • Squarespace Commerce and Shopify builds, based on best fit

  • Shipping and fulfillment workflow setup and integrations

Courses, Programs, and Membership Experiences

Online course and classroom design
Courses hosted on your website or integrated with platforms like Teachable and Thinkific
Program libraries for live and recorded classes
Membership and gated content setup, when needed

Marketing Campaigns and Growth Support

Strategic digital marketing planning
Promotions and launch support
HTML email campaign design and templates
Google, Yelp, and social media ad campaign creative and setup support
Competitive market research

Business Support and Coaching

Business development coaching
Marketing coaching and implementation support

Select Projects and Specialized Capabilities

Video editing and production
Third party integrations, automation, and custom workflows
Accounting or bookkeeping integrations, when needed
ArchiCAD 2D drawings and 3D modeling for architecture projects, when applicable

Grow Your Business

Web Design, SEO & Marketing Services Pricing

Why Projects Stay Efficient and Affordable

Because I work as a solo studio with a highly streamlined process, many projects move faster with less friction. I use efficient design and development methods, collaborative live working sessions when helpful, and help guide clear decision making based on business goals. Clients often find this reduces back and forth, protects budget, and speeds the path to launch. Communication is easy and I am often exclusively engaged with their project.

I bring decades of web design experience plus a strong background in business management, so your website is built with practical strategy, not just aesthetics. When the project calls for it, I can also integrate advanced features and tools in a way that stays organized and scalable.

In many projects, clients have seen savings around 25 percent or more compared to typical costs for comparable scopes. Savings vary by scope and requirements.

    • Lower overall costs than fixed rate pricing

    • For startups and established businesses wanting new websites and redesigned websites with advanced features

    • Squarespace, Shopify, & Wix Studio

    • Offers the most project flexibility

    • Phased project development

    • Optional multiple language translations

    • Mobile optimized website

    • Custom coded website features

    • Built-in analytics

    • Online learning classes, classrooms in your site

    • Paywall Content

    • Custom online scheduling, reservations website features

    • Travel reservations with interactive maps website features

    • Integrated marketing, email campaigns

    • Content creation for website copy writing, social media, advertising and email campaigns

    • Built-in SEO

    • Image and video sourcing with low stock licensing prices

    FLEXIBLE PRICING HOURLY RATE: $140
    SEE PACKAGE TABS FOR FIXED RATE PRICING

  • SEO (search engine optimization) is an essential element that every website needs, especially now as AI is part of SEO strategy. SEO can take your website higher! The pro tools I use make the process faster and less costly, while I use the most advanced SEO strategies for Squarespace websites.

    CHECK OUT MONTHLY SEO PACKAGES

  • The internet is an extremely dynamic digital environment and it changes daily in thousands of ways. Most of those ways are related to the way code is used and best practices and ranking requirements in website design and SEO that Search engines like Google use to determine who gets to see your website when they search for things you offer.

    A Monthly Website Maintenance Membership gives you an hour of my time monthly, during which I check for code and content that needs to be changed or updated, troubleshoot and fix technical issues, and make minor updates.

    MONTHLY WEBSITE MAINTENANCE MEMBERSHIP: $120/mo

    • Get a snazzy 4 page website

    • Get a 1 page sales funnel website

    • Update your branding & branded graphics for social media profiles and ads

    • Graphic Design

    • Presentation Design

    • Multiple language translations set up

    • Create social media and other content

    • Write blogs and website copy writing

    • Develop and implement Email, Google Ads, Facebook & Instagram campaigns

    • Update and/or expand your website

    • Troubleshooting and bugs fixes in existing sites

    • Create and/or update your SEO

    • Content creation

    • Includes 1 hour onboarding meeting in advance, 7 hours of dedicated work for you alone, 1 hour followup meeting

    VIP Day Fixed Pricing: $ 1000

    • Update and/or expand your existing website

    • Update your branding & branded graphics for social media profiles and ads

    • Graphic Design

    • Presentation Design

    • Multiple language translations set up

    • Content creation for website, social media

    • Develop and implement Email, Google Ads, Facebook & Instagram ad campaigns

    • Troubleshooting and bugs fixes in existing sites

    • Create and/or update your SEO

    • Includes 1 hour onboarding meeting in advance, 3 hours of dedicated work for you alone, 1 hour followup meeting

    VIP DAY FIXED PACKAGE PRICING: $ 500

    • Includes 3 logo versions, brand color palette and typography specifications sheet

    • Business card designs included

    • Branded digital letterhead background

    • Branded social media profile graphics for up to 3 social media accounts

    • Branded email campaign template

    • Patterns & custom design elements

    • Brand Style Sheet with specs

    • 2 rounds of revisions

    BRANDING PACKAGE FIXED COST: $1100

    • All sizes of online stores

    • Custom design of Shopify or Squarespace e-commerce website

    • Advanced customizations and features

    • SEO

    • Mobile optimized

    • Built-in analytics

    • Initial build out of products and inventory

    • Currency conversions, language translations, taxation, order fulfillment systems, and POS, and integrated bookkeeping setup available

    • Marketing and advertising strategies and systems creation

    • Email campaigns design & development

    FLEXIBLE PRICING HOURLY RATE: $140
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    • Perfect for selling online classes and paywalled content

    • Integrated class enrollment and delivery options within Squarespace, or third party sites like Teachable, Kajabi, Thinkific, and others

    • Subscription content eCommerce

    • Member areas set up

    • Scheduling system based live class sales

    • Custom class/school UI designs

    • Build out of class modules, chapters

    • Setup of paywalled content areas

    • Custom enrollment systems development

    • Mobile optimized

    • Built-in analytics

    • Custom email notification workflows, marketing, advertising systems

    FLEXIBLE PRICING HOURLY RATE: $140
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    • Pitch Decks

    • Business Cards

    • Retail Print Ads

    • Brochures

    • Signage

    • Trade Show Graphics

    • Door & Window Film Design

    • Vehicle Wrap and Signs Graphics

    FLEXIBLE PRICING HOURLY RATE: $140

    • Strategic marketing plan development

    • Competitive Market Research

    • Integrated marketing systems setup via blogging, social media, email campaigns, ad campaigns with Google, Instagram, Facebook and others

    • Built-in analytics and ROI tracking & more

    • Content creation, blogging

    • Copywriting & editing

    • Video ads and content development

    • Ongoing ad campaign creation and management, automated workflows development

    • Coaching in marketing strategy

    • Custom email campaign designs & development

    FLEXIBLE PRICING HOURLY RATE: $140
    SEE PACKAGE TABS FOR FIXED RATE PRICING

 Design Process


our Dynamic collaboration will take your business to the next level!

I’m happy to build some portions of your site live in Zoom screen sharing sessions with you, so you receive tutorials at the same time. It’s a dynamic, collaborative experience and clients tell me it inspires them and helps them feel confident to do work in their sites after launch. Win-win!

Be Inspired!

Get ready to be inspired as we take your business to the next level. You’ll receive a project management portal, making communication, and the sharing of design assets easy and organized. Projects can also be developed in phases, which is very budget friendly and less overwhelming, especially for large projects. Let’s begin!

Clients Include


• Start-Ups
• Business Services Providers
• Tech Companies
• Fine Artists & Photographers
• Holistic Wellness Practitioners
• Retail Stores & E-Commerce
• Online Schools
• Psychologists & Doctors
• HEalth & Beauty Companies
• Architects & Interior Designers
• INdustrial design & Product Developers
• personal growth practitioners
• Event Managers
• Spas, hotels & Retreat Facilities
• Cafes, Restaurants & Bars
• Musicians & Concert Venues

And You!

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