Framer vs Squarespace

Introducing Skills: Teach the Framer Agent to design more like you and your team

Framer introduces Skills, a new feature that lets teams capture reusable design guidance and connect it directly to the canvas, components, and styles in their projects, enabling the Framer Agent to produce more on-brand work.

How to build a lead generation tool with Framer Agents

We built the AEO Scanner and Stack Score with Framer Agents. Each gives visitors a useful result and our team better context for follow-up. You can use the same setup for other lead generation tools.

Framer Marketplace Changes Spark Creator Controversies

A Framer template creator documents ten recurring controversies around the Framer marketplace from 2023–2026, recounting personal experience selling templates since April 2023 and describing platform changes that affected discoverability and creator workflows. Key moments include the August 2023 release of an HTML-to-Framer Chrome extension, a 2024 marketplace redesign that removed the 'New' section and search, lengthy manual template review processes, perceived favoritism toward top creators, and Framer's 2026 decision to open the marketplace to self-published templates without prior review. The author urges creators to provide feedback to Framer, to focus on audience-building and niche products, and to treat marketplace upheavals as cyclical rather than terminal.

• Article author Danny Sapio reports selling his first Framer template on April 7, 2023 and now has seven templates on Framer.
• In August 2023 Framer released an HTML-to-Framer Chrome extension that allowed copying website sections into Framer as editable layers.
• A 2024 Framer marketplace update removed the 'New' section and the search bar, which creators say hurt template discoverability.

Introducing SMS Campaigns: The Marketing Channel Your Customers Won’t Ignore

Squarespace announces the launch of SMS Campaigns, a new marketing channel integrated into its platform, allowing users to reach customers via text messaging.

August 2026 Product Updates

August 2026 Product Updates by Squarespace

Websites Are Boring — Embrace a Bifurcated Web

The author argues that widespread use of templates (Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow) and optimisation-for-conversion has homogenised websites, eroding brand distinctiveness. With the rise of AI, agents, and agentic commerce, discovery is shifting toward machine-driven flows that risk reducing websites to backend databases. The piece proposes a bifurcated web: a ‘Silent Web’ of machine-readable feeds for agents and a separate ‘Experiential Web’ focused on rich, human-first brand experiences powered by creative use of AI. The article cites industry projections for large economic impact from agentic commerce and multiple survey statistics showing consumer trust and adoption of AI shopping tools.

• The article states the rise of Shopify, Squarespace, and Webflow templates has produced mass homogenisation of websites.
• A McKinsey projection cited in the piece estimates agentic commerce could generate $1 trillion in the US B2C retail market by 2030 and $3–5 trillion globally.
• The article cites that 58% of Gen Z and millennials trust an AI agent to compare prices and recommend options.