Fast, cheap, efficient way to get a personal website up and running
August 04, 2017

Fast, cheap, efficient way to get a personal website up and running

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Squarespace

I use Squarespace for my personal website. It helped me launch a website quickly, without spending anytime coding it up. I got a website up and running within a day.
  • Squarespace helped me create and publish an online portfolio that looks professional, well-designed, and easy-to-use within a day.
  • I switched from Squarespace, to WordPress, and finally back to Squarespace because it's well-organized and I don't have to spend hours setting up a simple domain, or customizing my theme.
  • Organizing navigation, portfolio pieces, blog posts, and responding to comments are all really easy. I love how fast and intuitive everything is within Squarespace.
  • Deleting blog posts in bulk is hard, you have to delete them one-by-one which can be time-consuming.
  • Deleting articles or portfolio pieces is also time consuming because you can only manage them one at a time.
  • Using Squarespace for my site has helped me get interviews with companies that I aim to work for. I can't put an exact $ amount, but it has helped me with my career path and personal development.
  • Reasonable costs.
  • No need to code or design, but you can customize the themes to a certain extent.
I have used WordPress. I found WordPress great in terms of bulk management and SEO. But, WordPress takes a lot more time to learn and implement things. I preferred Squarespace in the long-run.
Squarespace is great if you want to get a portfolio up and running quickly and cheaply, without knowing code. If you intend to build a big site with hundreds of portfolio pieces or blog posts, Squarespace will become time consuming as it's hard to manage them in bulk. Fine-tuning HTML & CSS seems limited.

Squarespace Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
10
Code quality / cleanliness
10
Admin section
9
Page templates
8
Library of website themes
7
Mobile optimization / responsive design
10
Publishing workflow
8
Form generator
8
Content taxonomy
9
SEO support
5
Bulk management
3
Availability / breadth of extensions
5
Community / comment management
4
API
5
Role-based user permissions
9