Squarespace Reviews & Product Details

Squarespace is intuitive, so you could pick it up and learn it without someone teaching you. There's also help available 24/7 if you run into any issues. I use Squarespace when building websites for clients, and the handoff after a project is completed is a breeze. Plus, it's pretty inexpensive! I also love that I can make the templates feel more custom with some simple CSS.

The new Squarespace 7.1 makes some things simpler, and some things more difficult. It's easier to add color themes, but customizing requires more work + code. I also wish there was a way to have more options for fonts/headlines without having to use custom code. It should be easier to upload your own font! 7.1 also got rid of parallax scrolling, which is frustrating. Fortunately, 7.0 templates are still available, so depending on the project, I will sometimes return to those.

Squarespace makes it easy to build a professional looking website quickly. Making updates takes no time, and it's easy to train my clients how to use it upon handoff. Plus, as a member of Squarespace Circle, I have access to so many more resources that are valuable to my team.

I love that as a designer, I can use Squarespace to fully customize a website to my clients' brand and use, no matter the client. THEN I can hand it off to them and they can have the confidence to continue to update and maintain their website with their slick user interface and controls! Many times clients are intimidated about using something new and techy but once I sit down with them and show them the basics of Squarespace they have a renewed confidence and are able to manage their own websites without the stress or confusion that usually comes along with such a task.

They are a little behind on some options and functions that would be nice for bigger businesses with more needs. BUT they are constantly updating, learning and building. So they do eventually catch up.

I am able to add website design to my design services. I am a graphic designer and many potential clients used to ask "do you do websites" and I would always have to answer "not yet". With Squarespace, I had the time to learn and become fluent in using their platform pretty quickly so that I can serve my clients better. And that is without lacking on the service either. Squarespace usually has everything my client is looking for in a website plus some "wow! I didn't realize I could do that"s.

Squarespace has various of slots to fill, places to move, and objects to change. It provides multiple domains for different businesses or topics. There are also multiple formats that provides for you for ideas and select a monotone color combination for the whole domain for consistency. I love how you can market any products or organize your business in marketing or commerce by selling or analyzing how many people visit your page.

I don't think the limited monotone color combinations given where it's harder to expressive multiple colors. Some limitation I also wish were lowered are the animations, buttons, and fonts. The price is also too pricing for one month and wish it was less.

I am using Squarespace to organize all my past designs and prepare for work-in-process projects in the future. I want to use Squarespace to the fullest to express who I am, what I do, and my skills. Because I'm having full use of Squarespace, I'm considering using its marketing and commerce aspects to sell my work or offer my service for social media planning. I realized Squarespace is not own for a business or marketing, but it can be a great way to represent yourself to clients or future employers.

The features and the layouts, the GUI and everything about it is absolutely amazing and easy to use.

I don't see any downfall or really dislike about using this site

This is far better way of creating our revised website, as the old methods of creating each and every feature using a code or the amount of work that would go into a small feature to be embedded was really messy

Squarespace is so user friendly and has beautiful template designs without the extra costs. I love the fact that I don't have to purchase tons of plugins to get my blog optimized and to operate smoothly as I did for WordPress. My site gets more consistent traffic because the site is naturally mobile responsive and SEO friendly. Squarespace makes it easy for the owner of the site and readers to navigate through the site. Not only does the template designs look good from the reader's point of view, but it also looks good on the backend of the site. Squarespace allows you to see realtime edits without having to do the code and then either put your URL in a separate browser or click a preview button. This makes it easier to make sure your formatting is correct and you like the way it looks without all the extra steps. I also like that it doesn't crash! Or at least it hasn't crashed on me since I started using it last year. Overall, I think that Squarespace is a great self-hosting platform for those who hate trying to code, spend tons of extra money on plugins and template designs, and want a user-friendly drag and drop experience. Plus I like the email campaigns. It has made building templates and sending out emails much easier than using a 3rd party. I can easily bring my most recent blogs into my email and have people subscribe to my blog with ease. Squarespace offers a pop-up option for newsletter sign-ups that you would've had to pay extra for on WordPress.

I wish Squarespace had an easy way to transition from Squarespace 7.0 to version 7.1. Right now, you have to set up a completely new site to experience the new design features and transfer the domain. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with version 7.0, but I would also like to have my site be updated to the most recent software. I love the idea of having more flexibility with my template design for my blog. I know Squarespace is working on it so until they figure it out I'll be keeping the 7.0 version.

One, I'm solving the SEO. As soon as I make tweaks here and there, it seems like my blog gets favor by Google faster than it did with WordPress. My blog looks better than ever and it gives me one less thing to worry about between trying to write high-quality content and promote it. The last thing I want to be doing or worrying about is spending hours trying to perfect my blog's aesthetic. Now, I can focus on what really matters and reach people all over the world on a regular basis! Although I pay the monthly fee, it is less expensive than WordPress self-hosting platforms in the end because Squarespace has all of the features you would need built-in to its software. It's better for my wallet and keeps things simple because everything is in one place and the features I used the most on my self-hosting platform for WordPress, I can get with Squarespace too, again, without the extra costs.

I love Squarespace, moving over from wordpress i have found so many benefits to squarespace and so havce my clients. I use sqaurespace as a designer i am also a personal user. Squarespace makes it so easy to build a website, it is extremely flexible and so user friendly.

The only downside is that i feel the blog section could do with some tweaks and improvements. Although as it stands at the moment i feel that it isnt a complete let down and does offer everything that i really need it to.

Squarespace allows me to offer various template themes which squarespace offer and also allows me to code themes when my client wants something more unique. I now create and design my clinets websites all on this platform and do all major changes and they are happy that they can log in and make the basic changes like opening times, body copy and new images.

You literally don't need another program - everything is already into it (analytics, email newsletters, setting up your own email) and it's so customizable. It's also helpful how thorough the resources are that the website provides.

There is definitely a little bit of a learning curve to the program and it can be hard to figure out where something is or how to do something

I'm using it to help a musician I'm managing promote herself. There's so many different features - she can do event listings, sell products, link to other sites, do her emails, get analytics, and more, all in one

Love it all! Templates, ease of use, clean design.

Sometimes the tech is a bit wonky and need to play around with placement.

Made my own website and clients

Squarespace gets a ton of things right with its platform. For one thing, they include the intricacy of designing your own website page-by-page without the headache (or needing the knowledge) of coding the entire thing yourself. It's the best of both worlds, because if there's something you WANT to code, you can do that too!

The learning curve is a big one, for sure. It took me a couple of months to truly understand all of the aspects that it had to offer, so it does take some time investment (or trial by fire, i.e. me redesigning two websites with specifics on short notice) on the front end to get comfortable with.

Squarespace has unparalleled customer support, so even when there is something I don't understand, I've been able to quickly find the resources that I need (which helps me to never take excellent customer service for granted). This allows me to never have to dwell on a single problem for too long, which helps me to keep my design time efficient.

I enjoy how easy Squarespace makes website creation. All of the building blocks to create a solid and fluid website are at the ready.

There isn't much I dislike about the product.

We are reaching broader audiences with the newsletter subscription option.