Squarespace Website Design, Branding and Marketing Services
Serving Marin County, San Francisco Bay Area, and Clients Worldwide
Every project starts with intention, and ends with a website that attracts the right people, communicates clearly, and is built to be found. I design custom Squarespace websites, brands, and marketing systems for Marin County businesses, Bay Area entrepreneurs, and clients worldwide, integrating SEO and AI visibility strategy from the very first design decision.
Anna Truman At Lotus Live Design Creative Studio is the most creative, supportive and innovative web designer and search engine optimization developer and guardian. She tastefully designed my website and is now maintaining and updating its content. She is always ahead of the game in terms of technology and out-smarting the digital world, getting great results in terms of keeping my website digitally positioned high on google search and other’s digital circles. I have highly recommended her.
— Uzi Broshi; Hummingbird Integrative Health
27 Years of Design
Plus The Training, the Awards, and the Craft to Show for It.
I'm Anna Trueman, a California College of the Arts alumna and working designer since 1998. Over more than two decades, I have designed brands, websites, and digital experiences for eCommerce businesses, education brands, integrative medicine doctors, therapists, independent artists, holistic wellness practitioners, architects, tech startups, and other businesses across Marin County and beyond.
What sets my work apart is how it is built. Rather than designing a website and adding other elements later, I create coherent digital ecosystems from the ground up, where your website design, branding, SEO, AI visibility, and business tools are integrated into one unified system as I design and build. Nothing is retrofitted. Everything works together from day one.
I also use unique design methods, including my collaborative Live Design sessions, that save my clients significant time and money compared to traditional agency workflows, without sacrificing quality or creative depth.
Pacific Sun Magazine's Marin County publication awarded my design studio, Lotus Live Design, Best Digital Design Services awards in 2017 and again in 2018. I am also a Squarespace Circle Gold Partner, an invitation-only designation recognizing designers with demonstrated platform mastery and a consistent track record of exceptional client results. What that depth means for you: I do not experiment on your project. Every design decision is informed by nearly three decades of professional practice, refined creative instinct, and a genuine love for the work.
Your Vision,
Built Into Every Decision
When you work with me, your project does not go into a queue and come back weeks later as a surprise. From our first conversation, I am learning your business, your audience, your goals, and the market you are competing in. Every decision made during design and development, from page architecture to typography to the tools we integrate behind the scenes, is shaped by that understanding.
The result is a website that functions as a complete, coherent system. Your visual identity, your content, your marketing tools, and your search visibility are not separate workstreams bolted together at the end. They are designed to work as one from the very first session.
Clients come to me because they want something that reflects who they actually are, performs well in search, and does not require a developer every time they need to make a change. That combination of craft, strategy, and practical independence is what I build toward on every project, regardless of scope or budget.
I work with clients throughout Marin County, in Mill Valley, Sausalito, Corte Madera, Greenbrae, Larkspur, Kentfield, San Anselmo, Fairfax, Ross, Mill Valley, San Rafael and Novato, and across Western Marin from Point Reyes to Stinson Beach. I also serve clients throughout the Bay Area, across the country, and internationally via Zoom and Google Meet.
Why Squarespace Platform Expertise Matters
I specialize in Squarespace, and that is a deliberate choice, not a constraint. Squarespace is a fully managed, enterprise-grade platform with built-in security, automatic updates, and no plugin ecosystem to maintain. WordPress, by comparison, is the most frequently hacked content management system in the world, accounting for the overwhelming majority of compromised small business websites globally. That is not a risk worth taking on.
Squarespace sites are inherently more secure, faster loading, and far easier for you to manage and update without ongoing developer support. As a Squarespace Circle Gold Partner, I bring platform-specific expertise that generalist agencies simply cannot match, and that expertise produces cleaner architecture, stronger performance, and a site that keeps working for you long after launch.
Custom Squarespace Website Design
Your Digital Ecosystem, Built to Perform
You deserve a unique website design that inspires your target audience to take action. But you need more than style alone to succeed online. My holistic creative development process integrates SEO, marketing, social media presence, and business operations tools into your website, all at once. Efficiently. Cost effectively. Coherence makes your website a digital ecosystem that supports you and builds your brand more effectively.
E-commerce stores, online classrooms, paywall subscription based member areas, appointment and reservations systems can also be built in, and much more.
As I design and develop your website, I will be crafting your SEO and digital marketing strategies simultaneously. I will also be coaching you about best practices and strategies for blogging, email campaigns, and marketing.
Brand Identity Design
That Speaks Before You Do
Your brand is the first impression your business makes, before a visitor reads a single word, the initial connection that ignites between you. One purpose of brand design is to carry a message to people on a deep level where meaning is stored. Brand identities can inspire action and emotions.
I design brand identities that are visually distinctive, strategically grounded, and built to carry your mission clearly across your website, your social presence, your print materials, and every other touchpoint.
A strong brand identity does more than look good. It performs. It tells the right audience they are in exactly the right place, and gives them a reason to stay.
SEO and AI Visibility
Designed WithIn From The Start
There is a meaningful difference between a website that has SEO and a website that was built for SEO from the ground up. I build the latter.
From your first meeting with me, I am thinking about how search engines and AI tools will read and surface your pages. Your creative, compelling, online presence has discovery as a top goal, supported by every structural decision, how pages are named, how headings are nested, how content is organized, how images are described, and how internal links flow. Your designs are developed with visibility in mind.
Your keyword strategy helps shape your page architecture, while your unique style is held high. Your site structure serves both human visitors and the systems that determine whether they find you. The beauty of your website and brand designs inspire action.
Strategic SEO includes AI search visibility: platforms like Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT Search, and Perplexity now surface business recommendations directly from well-structured websites. I build your content, FAQ sections, and schema markup to be legible and authoritative to these systems from launch day onward.
Live Design
the Collaborative Method
Most design projects work like a black box: you hand over a brief, wait weeks, and hope what comes back matches what you imagined. My approach is different, a collaborative process that saves you money and actively engages with your vision.
Live Design sessions are working meetings where we build portions of your website together in real time, in person in Marin County, or via Zoom or Google Meet from anywhere. You are not a passive observer. You are helping to guide decisions as the design takes shape, which means far fewer revision rounds, a faster timeline, and a more affordable project overall.
While we work, I am also walking you through how your site operates: how to update pages, post to your blog, run an email campaign, manage your booking system, and use the tools we are integrating. I can record our sessions so you have a personal library of tutorials to refer back to after launch.
Live Design sessions are optional. Some clients prefer a more hands-off experience. But most who try them find the process engaging, efficient, and genuinely enjoyable.
Grow Your Business
Web Design, SEO & Marketing Services Pricing
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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
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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.
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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. -
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 development, creative ads, 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
Serving Marin County: Mill Valley, Sausalito, Tiburon, Corte Madera, Greenbrae, Larkspur, Kentfield, Ross, San Rafael, San Anselmo, Fairfax, Novato, West Marin, and the San Francisco Bay Area, with clients nationwide and worldwide.
Your Message
Taking Flight
FAQ About DEsign Services
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What is a Squarespace Circle Gold Partner? An invitation-only designation from Squarespace recognizing designers with exceptional platform expertise and a strong track record of high-quality client results. It is not something you apply for or pay for. It reflects demonstrated mastery and consistent excellence.
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Yes. I offer in-person Live Design sessions for clients throughout Marin County, in San Rafael, Corte Madera, Larkspur, Kentfield, San Anselmo, Fairfax, Mill Valley, Sausalito, Tiburon, Novato, and West Marin. I also work with clients throughout the Bay Area, across the US, and internationally via Zoom and Google Meet.
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Live Design is my collaborative working method. We build parts of your Squarespace website together in real time, in person or via video call. Because you are guiding decisions as they happen, you avoid the back-and-forth revision cycle that drives up agency costs. Fewer rounds means a lower overall investment, and you leave with real knowledge of how your own site works.
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Yes, and it is built in from the start, not added after. SEO strategy, local SEO signals, AI search visibility structure, schema markup, keyword architecture, and metadata are all part of the design and build process at no extra charge. Monthly SEO services for continued growth are offered separately.
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Platform mastery matters. Squarespace is more secure, fully managed, and free of the plugin vulnerabilities that make WordPress the most hacked CMS in the world. For small business owners, that means less risk and lower ongoing maintenance cost. As a Squarespace Circle Gold Partner, I bring a depth of platform expertise that most generalist agencies cannot offer.
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Twenty-seven years of design experience, a fine arts degree from California College of the Arts, two Pacific Sun Best of Marin awards, Squarespace Circle Gold Partner status, and an approach that integrates website design, branding, marketing, SEO, AI visibility, and collaborative client sessions into one coherent process. There is no equivalent in the local market.
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Project timelines are flexible and websites can be built in as little as 2 days, or over months. The biggest influence on timing are my client’s goals and the size of their project. For website projects, the size of the website, the types of features desired, budget, and other variables determine the timeline.
Most custom Squarespace projects take 4 to 12 weeks from kickoff to launch, depending on scope and how quickly content and feedback are provided. We will develop a clear timeline at the start of your project.