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Browse by niche or platform. Every listing has a full live demo, so you scroll the real thing before you spend anything. No mystery mockups.
Live demo on every listingDesign forward website templates for Wix, Squarespace, Showit and WordPress. Built for ordinary businesses that refuse to look ordinary. Pick one, drop in your words, launch this week.
A few real builds from the catalog, spanning trades, services, faith, and agency work. Every template comes with its own type system, palette and layout.
No discovery calls, no proposals, no six-week timeline. You are the project manager, and it takes an afternoon.
Browse by niche or platform. Every listing has a full live demo, so you scroll the real thing before you spend anything. No mystery mockups.
Live demo on every listingYour files and a plain-English setup guide land in your inbox. Showit share key, Wix transfer or WordPress import, depending on what you picked.
Setup guide includedReplace the copy and photos with yours. The design system holds together on its own, so it still looks intentional when you are done fiddling with it.
Live by the weekendTwenty-five plus industries covered, with new ones added every week. Tap any niche to filter the catalog.
I bought four templates before this one and they all felt like the same site with different photos. This one actually looks like somebody designed it on purpose.
Not a color swap on last month's layout. Its own display face, its own palette, its own signature detail, the same way a studio would approach a paying client. That is the entire reason this shop exists, and it is why these do not stack up next to each other looking like siblings.
Find the one that looks like your business, then go live before you talk yourself out of it.
There is no onboarding call, no proposal, no waiting on a designer to get back to you. You pick a design that already exists, we hand you the files, and you fill in your own words.
Most people are done in an afternoon. The slow part is deciding which template you want.
Filter the shop by niche or by platform. Every listing links to a full live demo, so you can scroll the actual site on your phone before you buy. What you see is what you get, minus your photos and copy.
Live demo on every listingCheckout runs through Etsy for now. Within 24 hours you get the template delivered in whatever form your platform needs, plus a setup guide written in plain English rather than developer shorthand.
24 hour delivery standardSwap the placeholder copy for your own, drop in your photos, change the logo. The type scale, spacing and color system stay intact on their own, so it still looks designed after you have been in there editing.
No design skills requiredPoint your domain, publish, done. The setup guide walks through it for your specific platform. If something does not behave, message the shop and you get a real answer, not a help-desk macro.
Support after launchSame standard on every template in the shop, whatever niche or price it lands at.
Delivery depends on the platform you choose at checkout. Each one has its own handover method.
The finished site is built in Wix Studio and transferred straight into your account. You log in and start editing.
You receive a link that copies the whole site into your own Squarespace account, structure and styling intact.
A share key you paste into Showit to pull the design into your account, plus a guide covering the quirks.
An import file for Elementor with the theme and plugin list, so the build lands exactly as designed.
No. The design decisions are already made. Your job is swapping the words and photos for your own, which is closer to filling in a form than designing anything.
Yes, all of it is editable on every platform. The palette and type are set up as reusable styles, so changing one value updates it everywhere rather than page by page.
Templates are not sold exclusively, so it is possible. In practice the catalog is wide enough, and each design distinct enough, that running into a twin in your own town and industry is unlikely. Your photos and copy do most of the differentiating anyway.
Duplicate an existing page inside your platform and edit it. The styles carry over, so an added page still matches the rest of the site.
Yes. The template is the design. You still need your own Wix, Squarespace, Showit or WordPress hosting plan to publish it, the same as any site.
Message the shop. Setup questions get answered directly, and if something in the template itself is broken it gets fixed.
Go find the one that looks like your business.
Most people take a template and run with it themselves. If you would rather hand it off entirely, we take on a small number of custom builds each quarter, using the same design standard as everything in the shop.
Custom work is slower and pricier than a template on purpose. It's the right call in a specific set of situations.
Roughly two to four weeks, depending on scope and how fast content comes back.
A short questionnaire about your business, timeline and budget. If it's a good fit, you get a flat quote and a start date. If it's not, you'll get pointed to the right template instead.
No cost, no obligationOne design direction, built out fully on the homepage before anything else gets touched. Type, palette, layout and motion agreed on here, not revised page by page later.
One direction, done rightEvery page built out on the approved system, with your copy and photos in place. You review on a live staging link as it comes together, not just at the end.
Staging link to follow alongDomain connected, a recorded walkthrough of how to edit it yourself, and a short window of fixes included after go-live.
30 days of fixes includedThe starting scope for a custom build. Larger sites are scoped individually.
A few sentences about your business and timeline is enough to start.
Soft Launch Designs exists because the gap between a cheap website and a good one is mostly a pricing decision, not a design one. We closed it.
After years of building custom sites for clients, the same thing kept happening. A business would come in knowing exactly how they wanted to look, get a quote, and quietly go buy a template instead. Then they would end up with something that looked like every other business in their industry, because that is what most templates are.
The gap was obvious. Nobody was making templates with the care of a real design project. So that became the whole idea: build every template like a paying client commissioned it, then sell it at a price a new business can actually pay.
The word carries a stigma for a reason. Most are one layout in forty color schemes. That is a production shortcut, not a design decision.
The taste should be baked into the file. If the design falls apart the moment a non-designer edits it, the design was not finished.
Going live in a weekend is a scheduling outcome. Looking like everyone else is a design one. You can have the first without the second.
Five pages that are all considered beat twelve that are mostly filler. Nobody is reading the twelfth page, including you.
This is the part that takes the time, and the reason these don't look like siblings.
What do the good ones in this niche look like, and what does every mediocre one do? The design starts by ruling out the obvious answer.
A display face, a palette and one signature detail chosen for this niche specifically. Locked before a single page is laid out.
Every page designed on that system, including the interior ones nobody usually bothers with, then laid out again for mobile.
Swap in ugly photos, longer copy, a different logo. If it still holds together, it ships. If it does not, it goes back.
Small studio, deliberately. Small enough that the person designing the template is the person answering your message about it, and opinionated enough to tell you when an idea will cost you customers.
New templates every week, more platforms, and a shop that eventually lives right here instead of somewhere else.
Go look at the actual work. That is the part that matters.