Bring in the art from your current site
Paste the address of a page on your existing site. This reads the public page, lists the pictures on it, and you pick the ones you want. It runs once and keeps nothing.
Illustration. Ink and paper, mostly.
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Paste the address of a page on your existing site. This reads the public page, lists the pictures on it, and you pick the ones you want. It runs once and keeps nothing.
Three separate things, in the order they should happen. Nothing here needs a subscription and nothing here needs code.
index.html. Your pictures are inside that file, so it is the whole site, not a link to one.Nothing you add is uploaded anywhere. It stays in the browser you are using until you download the file, and then it is on your device.
Any of these will host that one file for free, on your own domain. In order of least fiddly:
The good news first: you almost certainly do not have to move the domain anywhere. The domain and the website are two separate things, and only a couple of records need to change — the ones that say which computer answers for the website. Everything else, your email included, can stay where it is.
Start by finding out who the domain is actually with. Open account.squarespace.com/domains, find it, and read the Provider column. That is the answer. A public WHOIS lookup will mislead you here, because Squarespace registers domains through other companies, so it can say Tucows or Key-Systems for a domain that is really theirs. And if you bought it through Google Domains at some point, it is a Squarespace domain now whether you moved it or not: they took those over in 2023.
A records on the bare domain, and the CNAME on www. Your new host gives you exactly what to put in them. Nothing else gets touched, and Squarespace has no say in it.The one way to break something. If you have email on that domain, be careful with nameservers specifically. Changing the website records above leaves mail alone. Changing nameservers hands your whole DNS to a different company, and any mail record that does not get copied across stops working — post simply stops arriving and nothing warns you. Before any nameserver change, photograph or export every record, especially the ones marked MX, and the TXT ones mentioning SPF, DKIM or DMARC. Those are your email. Art can be put back in a minute; mail that silently bounces is invisible until somebody tells you they wrote and heard nothing.
Do not cancel Squarespace until the new site answers on your domain. Order: file online, records pointed, then check both the site and your email on your phone with wi-fi off, and only then cancel. One thing worth knowing while you decide: cancelling the website does not cancel the domain. It keeps renewing on its own and stays yours.
Updating it is the same loop every time: open the file, edit, download, drop the new file on the host. Four times a year, that is a few minutes each time. Nothing expires and no one can reprice it.