Squarespace: Making the Novice Look Professional
November 30, 2018
Squarespace: Making the Novice Look Professional
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Squarespace
We use Squarespace for our website and email hosting. We selected it to replace our GoDaddy/Microsoft Exchange-based email and web hosting. We needed a solution that was inexpensive and easy to update. The GoDaddy site was a Wordpress site and, unlike Squarespace, requires a higher level web design experience. We are a small company and needed to be easily able to modify/update our website and also make it look professional. Squarespace does both.
- Flexible: Squarespace allows me to quickly and easily make changes to our website.
- Professional: I am not a web design professional. Squarespace helps me makes my site look professional.
- Inexpensive: Squarespace's price point is great for a small company that needs to maximize our use of every dollar.
- Integration: Squarespace integrates well with other services (such as LinkedIn) and helps me do my job.
- Responsive: Squarespace has a lot of tutorials and help available on the web. They were also quick to respond if I had questions or problems.
- Interface: Sometimes I have problems with their interface not saving or working correctly. For example, the photo editor tool sometimes locks up and crashes causing me to lose work.
- Picture Integration: Sometimes it is unclear how to manipulate cropping and sizing of pictures so they look right on the website.
- Presentation: Our Squarespace-based site is cleaner and smoother than our old site. This is a positive.
- Responsiveness: We can quickly build, add, and edit pages. Reducing our workload. This is also a positive.
The only competitor that I have used instead of Squarespace is GoDaddy (Hosting), Microsoft Exchange (EMail), and Wordpress (Design). Godaddy provided good customer service, but I found their system dated and unreliable. Squarespace's integration with G-suite is great; my Exchange platform was unreliable. Wordpress was also complex, and Squarespace was simpler. For a less experienced user, Squarespace was the way to go.