Webpage development that's as easy as it looks in the commercials.
February 14, 2019
Webpage development that's as easy as it looks in the commercials.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Squarespace
Working as the A/V Media Coordinator for a multi-campus religious organization, we needed a user-friendly way to create a church website that provided a way to relay comprehensive information for all of our campuses, while maintaining accessibility for visitors and an easy way for non-tech users to update information on the website as needed.
- User-friendly Interface: Easy to jump in and create with no coding or design experience required.
- Free Trial (No Card Required): Designing the perfect website takes time. Squarespace allows a 14-Day Free Trial (with live access to the website) to learn the interface, input information, and tweak designs before committing to any plans.
- Multiple Tiers: Depending on the business or individual needs, Squarespace provides multiple website and commerce plans with corresponding features based on the user's goals.
- Pricing: While not too prohibitive, Squarespace hosting may be more than the average user may want to spend on hosting, especially if building their own website from scratch. However, if looking for a quick, good looking website that is easy to manage, Squarespace is the way to go.
- Almost cookie-cutter Templates: when developing using the Squarespace auto-generated website builder, the templates provided look somewhat generic. If looking for a functional website that looks nice, Squarespace will do the trick. If looking for a quick, but more customized look, this might not be the way to go.
- Increased Web Interaction: We migrated to Squarespace from using a customized WordPress template. Squarespace built and configured a clean and functional website for our church that must be more welcoming to visitors, as we have seen an increase in interaction with our existing members (signing up for events via website) and new visitors reaching out (via contact us form).
- Easy to Manage: Before switching to Squarespace, due to the complexity of adding updates or announcements to our website, all updates needed to be run through a volunteer who managed our website. Now we can assign multiple contributors to update information for our events, distributing the workload.
Squarespace and Wix were the two webpage development utilities we trialed when switching from our hosted WordPress template. Both options were upgrades from what we were managing before, with quick, automated pages developed from each. Squarespace ended up being the most user-friendly, which was essential for our organization as many of our volunteers that contribute to updating our site are not tech savvy.