Great offering if you can afford it and they have a template that matches your needs
December 05, 2017
Great offering if you can afford it and they have a template that matches your needs
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Squarespace
We have a website explaining the background and service capabilities for a specialized color correction artist living in London. The artist provides color grading and digital intermediate services to movie studios, commercial producers, music video producers, and other high end clients. It's critical that he be perceived as highly professional and that his website reflect an artistic sensibility. At the same time, the artist is very busy and does not have a lot of time to spend on his website. He needs a system that allows him to maintain and expand (as needed) his site with minimal hassles and while still maintaining a high quality look and feel. WordPress was not a good option for this reason.
- Simple, fast startup. Easy to design a new site.
- Intuitive user interface.
- Excellent support in the event that you need it.
- Great selection of templates. If you can find a template that is close to what you want your site to look like, you're golden.
- If you want to customize a site a lot - that is, go beyond what a template looks like - it's quite difficult. It's really not designed for building out a custom site, as you can do with WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal.
- We have had some outages. I monitor the site with an online tool and the site does go down, but only briefly and only about once a month. Outages are usually less than 15 minutes long.
- Take a little getting used to if you're familiar with WordPress. It's a completely different paradigm.
- For the money, it's a good deal considering everything you get. However, there are cheaper alternatives if you have the time to manage a WordPress site and the expertise required to set one up.
- Most people will find this to be a great service offering. The key thing is finding a template that matches what you want on your site.
- Within a few minutes, most people - even people with no experience in building websites - can come up with something that looks great, assuming they find an existing template that matches their needs.
WordPress is much more flexible and offers a much broader and deeper range of capabilities that Squarespace. However, setting up a WordPress site can be quite time consuming in comparison, and you must commit to spending time regularly - at least once a month - to updating plugins and WordPress itself. Unless you're willing to invest a significant amount of time in building and maintaining your website, WordPress is not a good choice compared to Squarspace.