Squarespace Software

Bugs have been fixed, features and integrations have been added, and the price has risen very sharply. It's now too expensive for some clients who are just starting out, who instead look at Shopify or other cheap/free options to get started.

Pros

Squarespace is my go-to referral when a non-technical person wants a great looking website that they want to update themselves. The base templates looks great, offer good customization, then I can point them to the bits that they will actually need to interact with: blogs, ecommerce, and simple content updates. Whether they build it themselves or I do it for them, it's very easy to have a classy modern sight that your average Joe can rely on for their business.

The WYSIWYG editor is best in the business.

Cons

Plans are expensive for what they offer compared to competitors. Strange layout issues can haunt you if you try to stray from the pre-made templates. Sometimes the editor will freeze up and cause you to lose work. Custom code editor is very basic, and third party integrations are limited by that.

Squarespace is easy to use and easy to connect DNS settings, It generally takes 24 hours for a site to go live after the DNS settings have been connected.

The templates are beautiful, you can choose anyone and upgrade to either personal or business, I suggest business.

The trial is 14 days but that is usually enough time to create a site since you are usually just replacing images and text.

Pros

Squarespace is amazing if you are not familiar with code, it has a drop-and-drag function and many visually appealing functions, You can also add additional things like promotional popups (which is your subscriber block that pops up when you open a site), Facebook pixel, google analytics, connect MailChimp to collect a database and ad words.

With Squarespace your images won't be converted to low res, you can also add videos but these videos have to be connected via a third party such as youtube or a video service. The best thing about Squarespace is their customer service, their live chats. These experts help you with your issue and if they can't help you with the solution you were hoping for, they suggest alternative methods.

SEO is amazing.

Cons

The business package is expensive and if you don't have a business package you can't use a mobile info bar, place a Facebook pixel on the backend of your site and you also can't use Mail chimp to collect a database or a subscriber list.

The e-commerce site is not available in rands yet.

You also can't have an except dropdown on a page, this is a problem is you have long text and want a "read more" option. You can use anchor points but only if you are paying for a business plan.

You also can't have a video on a banner if you are viewing in on mobile.

Pros

-Very easy to use POS
-Easy to add items and pictures
-Quick transfer
-Simple to train employees
-Easy to track sales tax

Cons

-Not a very in depth back office
-Employee management and inventory costs extra money
-They take a large % compared to similar companies

Add nested folders.

Pros

Squarespace is such a magnificent tool to build websites. They make it so easy to find a template and build from there. The tools are easy to use and can be learned almost instantly.

Cons

The fact that there are still no nested folders is a bit frustrating. However, Squarespace makes it so easy to use - nested folder can be overlooked.

Pros

As a wedding photographer, my website is many times the first point of access for potential clients. Squarespace has helped me, extremely easily, build a fully-customisable site to showcase my work, keeping my photography front and centre. There are dozens of templates to choose from, and the page builder is made in a way that even someone that isn't too tech savvy would be able to make their website from scratch. Their customer support team replies to queries within a few hours, and their pricing is very reasonable.

Cons

My only downside with Squarespace is that some very basic design functions, such as font sizes, vary so greatly between certain templates. For instance, the template I currently use doesn't give me the option to change the size of the normal text font, but only lets me change the size of the body text as a whole, altering headings in the process. This is a minuscule problem, and I easily found a way around it.

Pros

We love this tool , its great. We can add multiple emails, so that everyone on the same page. If one fails to attend, the other can complement. We get request information, customers can be contacted easily and proper arrangements can be made

Cons

Not very popular though, a lot more advertising is needed. I am glad, the pop up window came in the side panel of Yahoo!, probably it will attract more businesses.

Pros

Good for smaller mom and pop operations or a secondary store for marketing purposes
Fairly easy to use for the laymen
Not super expensive as carts go
Some minor marketing advantages

Cons

If you want a professional store to be a part of your site, this is not the way to go at all. You would be best suited to have your developer build a cart that is part of one database and part of your site to bring traffic to your site directly.

Pros

- Good for small businesses that don't have resources for a complete IT department but still want to offer e-commerce options
- Good set of integrated analytic tools to track reach and purchase funnels
- Easy to make and edit attractive websites

Cons

- A lot of Squarespace sites have a signature Squarespace look from template usage, diluting the aesthetic
- Advanced features do take some experience to get used to

Overall, I think Squarespace is great for making websites for non-profit and educational audiences alike!

Pros

My favorite thing about Squarespace is the ease of use - no one on our project team has the expertise to create a website from scratch, but with Squarespace, we're still able to make stunning looking web pages. Their customer service is also very quick and responsive whenever we have a question. It's a much better service to use than any of their competitors I've tested out.

Cons

The only con I have is that they have limited support for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). We were looking into improving our SEO so we could appear further up on Google search results, but couldn't really do much with our current website.

Pros

Fairly easy to navigate; good options included in the price; customer support is good as well; good price for a year

Cons

Technical Jargon! I tried to figure out how website creation worked, but felt confused. It was more time efficient for me to hire a startup marketing and design person to set up my email, do the initial inputting, etc...

Pros

It is user friendly and easy for me to navigate.
It is clean and visually laid out good.
It has good themes and the html doesn't get messed up on them if you change one.

Cons

It doesn't have every option that say Word Press has, it is limited in its menus and navigational options.

Pros

Squarespace was very easy to learn and the templates were robust enough to fit my immediate needs. Their knowledge base articles are 2nd to none and very informative while managing to be succinct at the same time. Purchasing a domain through Squarespace was extremely easy and seamless as well.

Cons

Once you've scratched the surface, the learning curve for some of the more robust features was a little higher than I would've liked.

This is a great application to use when creating campaign landing pages or microsites.

Pros

This application give you the capability of creating beautiful, modern sites without the use of the web developer.

Cons

With preset templates, sometimes sites can begin to look very similar. Also, since there is no custom coding, there are some limitation to what sites can feature.

Pros

It has a lot of beautiful templates for different reasons like blogs, ecommerce or portfolio, with different layouts. For free! And to buy a better template is still cheap. Templates are easy to install. It's intuitive to lay things out like images or objects. Not to mention it's cheap to host and buy domains and to sync up.

Cons

Some things are not obvious like linking a blog to a blog carousel-- it would be easier to just have a button that does that instead of me have to drag things to unlinked/linked. It does require a little bit of developer savviness to figure things out that are in front of you but won't necessarily need.

You get a quality, well-designed site easily with minimal technical expertise. I'm no HTML wizard but I've made two good-looking websites easily.

Pros

Templates, editability, ease of set-up, integrated e-commerce, easy access to good stock photos, wide variety of typefaces and styles.

Cons

You do need to know what you are doing more than with some of the really simple website builders, but that is how you get more quality because you are not constrained by the pre-set formats.

Pros

Lots of drag and drop templates, no coding experience needed! Easy to add multiple user to contribute to your site design.

Cons

Little bit of a learning curve for users who are not computer saavy. Certain types of pages can be confusing to set up at first. Both of these issues are easy to solve though.

Pros

Don't need to have a background in web design to use
Easy to use templates
Multiple team members can login and work on the website

Cons

It's a little confusing to navigate at first, but it doesn't take long to learn.
Commerce page is not super simple to set up/change.

Their customer support is very helpful.

Pros

Has basic function and features, 24 hour customer service, cool templates (although I could not get any to work for me)

Cons

Takes a while to learn and can’t get the graphical layout I wanted, couldn’t link my blog so it shows on a page

Pros

I was able to use Squarespace to quickly put together a personal website that looked extremely clean and had a bare minimum of complicated set up. I got numerous compliments on the quality of the site despite having no experience with website building or design.

Cons

Some of the menu options are not as intuitive to find as I might like. The best example is when I needed to add different menu headings on the site (I.e., About Me, FAQ, etc.): it’s located under “Pages,” which does make a degree of sense, but it’s not the most intuitive and I constantly forgot how to get there. Also, to my memory, while the analytics page was good, it didn’t allow you to filter for custom dates, instead being last month, last week, etc.

Pros

Malleable templates allow you to make your website exactly how you want it, support team is really helpful, and their system is incredibly intuitive. Super easy to figure out even for amateurs.

Cons

The only difficulty I ever run into is having a hard time finding certain settings within the menu system. That said, it's often easy to Google search for the solution you need, so most problems can be easily solved.