Great for small business
August 30, 2017
Great for small business
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Squarespace
I use squarespace for my website as a freelance artist & writer. It's a simple, low-maintenance tool for setting up a website & portfolio, including images, galleries, outside links, etc.
- Simplicity. Very user friendly, fast to set up something basic.
- Templates are very nice looking & they add new ones frequently.
- Easy to upload or embed content in just about any major format.
- Templates look very...template-y.
- Gallery functionality is a little difficult to use for something like a portfolio. It's easy to add the content, but not as easy to sort by topic/tag - you have to toggle between the gallery page and the page where the gallery is being displayed.
- In some cases hard to control exact display requirements (this is good and bad, as its a side effect of their responsive designs).
- Cheap and simple portfolio hosting with custom domain - I can share my portfolio anytime and it's clean and professional-looking.
- Some SEO benefit, although I haven't dug into those features.
At the time I started with Squarespace, Wix had terrible templates (they're now much more similar). More user-friendly than WordPress if you don't need all the content management bells-and-whistles. If your blog is a central feature of your site, I'd recommend WordPress instead, or plugging WordPress into Squarespace if you must.