Why I choose Squarespace.

A website is a living environment, just like your home it requires care, maintenance and regular updates to ensure it performs properly. 

This is not an ad, nor am I being paid to say this :) I simply care about my client’s business and I understand the difficulty of using an online platform. For this reason, I build my client’s websites in Squarespace. 

Squarespace is very simple to use for the end user, low risk security wise and will always retain the design integrity.

Unlike many website platforms Squarespace is a highly intuitive platform that is very user friendly. That means, once the site is built your team can easily manage, change and update the content as required without having to incur external costs in doing so. 

Squarespace is a complete package. It includes everything you need and is very user friendly.

Everything just works and you don’t have to think about technical details like setting up a CDN for fast load times — it’s all taken care of behind the scenes. Squarespace is perfect for a brochure/information style websites and ecommerce sites. 

A lot of website designers will recommend WordPress.

I have designed many, many WordPress sites and I can’t stress enough that is not a complete package. WordPress is a flexible, opensource content management system that is more customisable than Squarespace but also has a steeper learning curve for the end user and requires constant development and ongoing updates.

Overall, Squarespace’s content management system is more intuitive and easier to use than WordPress. The interface feels polished and thoughtful. WordPress on the other hand is often more overwhelming. The editor feels cluttered, occasionally chaotic and often stuck. WordPress also relies heavily on plug-ins and as a result has a lot of security issues due to it’s open source nature.

Squarespace is not open source.

Instead, it has a more curated, closed approach. Developers can’t simply choose to create a plug-in for Squarespace.

Squarespace also provides 24/7 email support and a live chat service during EST working hours. Because WordPress is an open-source platform, it doesn’t come with any customer support – which is why most developers will say they include support in their proposals however from a business continuity perspective, this can become costly and difficult if your web designer / developer moves on to something else in the future.

Photography Credit. Magda Biernat.