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Squarespace
What Is Squarespace?
Squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence. Look like an expert right from the start with award-winning templates for your website, online store, or portfolio. Customize the design to fit your personal style and professional needs. Get found in search by more people with powerful SEO tools. Learn where your website traffic is coming from, what your visitors are looking for, and how they're interacting with your content or products with in-depth Analytics tools.
Who Uses Squarespace?
Trusted by the worlds best, Squarespace empowers people with creative ideas to succeed. Entrepreneurs, photographers, restaurants, musicians, businesses, fashion designers, and more use Squarespace.
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Reviews of Squarespace
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Pros:
Easy to use features, aesthetic and reactive web design builder, doesn't lag when you use it
Cons:
Slightly expensive, but it's worth the money considering the lesser quality of competitors
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Easy to use website building and maintenance
Pros:
Website build is easy, and support is provided through video training and accessible chat.
Cons:
Needs better photo compression tools available.
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Not for me and the three other people I worked with trying to utilize
Comments: We couldn’t get things to line up so that everyone sees the same thing. ,We had overlapping appointments , and so much confusion. We ended up asking Athena to make a template simile to the one already used for the Vascular side of the office and that was that.
Pros:
It is well known and looks good from the customers POV
Cons:
I have worked with many programs and sites over the years. I don’t know why I am finding this one so difficult to navigate and it wasn’t only me but the three others that were working with me to develop the site for a high end spa in N Seattle.
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Comments: Squarespace has been a strong tool for my photography business. It's allowed me to easily create and update a portfolio website. While there are some customization limits I've been happy with Squarespace overall for years;
Pros:
Squarespace offers great design templates, a user-friendly interface, and buit-in, reliable features. Gone are the days of dealing with plugins, updates and other headaches that come with some other tools.
Cons:
I've run into some customization limitations, their update to the most current version was far from seamless, requiring customers to rebuild their sites rather than be upgradeable. There are cheaper options out there for sure as well.
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Web design for the non tech head
Comments: It's been reliable, easy to use and handles custom CSS well. I can't say as a designer that I have enjoyed it, but its certainly easier than trying to think like a web developer.
Pros:
I appreciate the simplicity and reliability of Squarespace - and the ability to further extend the product through learning and implementing custom CSS with only basic learning is great.
Cons:
It can be frustrating to implement some ideas if it falls outside of the basic template parameters - I think there could be scope for greater customisation without affecting the ease of use, however custom CSS does partly negate this issue. It would be good if it wasn't quite so expensive as well.
