We are excited to announce that our newest Cosi Design Kit just hit the shelves and *it is stunning*! In today’s article, we are highlighting 5 awesome things about it, that will also help you understand if Cosi is the right template design for your brand. Just know that Cosi has stolen many hearts already, so if you keep reading - most probably the same will happen to you.
New Cosi Design Kit for Squarespace | 5 things you’ll love about it
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Cosi’s stylish design and bold layouts, make it a captivating and incredibly functional website template for any type of business, from portrait, fashion, and lifestyle to commercial, wedding, and other creative work. It is available for Squarespace 7.0 and 7.1 and offers shop options for those who need to sell their products online.
If this doesn’t make you want to check out Cosi right now, here are 5 reasons why you’ll definitely fall in love with this Squarespace design kit.
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5 things that make Cosi the perfect design for your Squarespace website:
1. It is available for both Squarespace 7.0 and 7.1 versions
With the release of Cosi, we’ve launched 2 different versions, one for Squarespace 7.0 and one for Squarespace 7.1. Appearance-wise both designs look almost identical. The only noticeable difference is the positioning of your main navigation menu. In the 7.0 version, you have the logo in the middle, with the menu located on both sides. In the 7.1 version, the main navigation is right-aligned, with the logo on the left. While this is the default Cosi look, you can customize it to fit your own needs, within the available options.
When it comes to functionality, we made Cosi Design Kit work well on both platform versions. No matter if you’re a Squarespace pioneer or a newcomer to the platform, you will have a smooth and pleasant website building experience.
Watch this quick overview of Cosi 7.0
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2. Perfect for creative brands that require a portfolio-focused website
If you are a commercial, fashion or studio photographer, your distinctive aesthetic is your bread and butter. You need a website that will allow you not only to present your work in an impactful way, but to also express your artistic self. Cosi is an excellent blend of both. It is ambitious, bold and can proudly showcase its owner’s best work. The pages inside it are packed with layouts to specifically highlight your photography portfolio - easily customize them, personalize colors and typography to reflect your own visual identity.
You’ll notice that Cosi has 2 homepage layouts. Home 1 offers a more intimate browsing experience, as it focuses on presenting your promise to the client, as well as highlighting the advantages of working with you. All this paired up with a trendy showcase of some of your best work. Home 2 looks like the cover of a fashion magazine, with your portfolio as the centerpiece. It is meant to offer your visitors a better understanding of the work you do, and to entice them to get to know you better. Of course, you can mix and match sections from both layouts to fit your own brand needs.
Homepage 1
Homepage 2
3. It has extremely functional layouts and features
Lots of great functionality is packed inside Cosi. We’re talking about dozens of interactive blocks that will turn your Squarespace site into a “client booking” machine. And here is why: when your website visitors have an organic, enjoyable browsing experience, sending an inquiry just feels like the right thing to do at the end. Cosi offers that.
You’ve got a portfolio page that sorts by type of work and creates landing pages for each category. You’ve got the traditional slider on the homepage to showcase your featured collections. And you’ve got moodboard-type sections that are the perfect way to present your editorial, lifestyle or fashion work. You’ve got testimonials sections to help highlight the wonderful experience that past clients have had while working with you. You’ve got travel info blocks, dynamic fun facts about your brand (who doesn’t love some great fun facts?), powerful call to actions, and newsletter sections. You’ve got lively FAQ blocks that you just want to keep reading through. All the blocks available inside Cosi, both on Squarespace 7.0 and 7.1, are easy to customize, to duplicate, to mix and match and use across your site.
You’ve also got a super functional footer, to help you offer more intuitive navigation and to strengthen your SEO. Add quick useful links in the footer to guide your users to important pages on your site, and include more information on ways to get contacted, which helps you to perform better for local SEO.
4. Cosi offers a modern Shop Page layout
Great news for those of you who plan to sell prints or other goodies on your website. While Cosi’s e-commerce functionality is native from Squarespace, you get a shop design page that is embedded with Cosi’s style and personality. You also get a styled product page for each product in your shop. Note that in order to integrate a shop to your Squarespace site, you must have a commerce plan.
The Shop
Product Page inside Shop
5. Signature color elements and graphics
Cosi is one of a kind. While it has this elegant and elevated allure, you will also find its layouts very playful and charming. Everything from its warm color palettes, to its bold typography will help you stand out and express your charismatic personality. It comes with custom graphics that are randomly (read as: very very intentionally) sprinkled here and there, to offer a memorable and impactful first impression on anyone who visits your site. Know that you can always replace these graphics with your own brand element, to make it truly your own.
Cosi is the perfect mix between sophisticated and playful, between elegant and flirty. It’s refreshing enough to turn heads and to get people curious. Isn’t that what you need for your next website design?
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