“so before choosing, check the platform can import your etsy listings (shopify and wix both have etsy import apps, squarespace is more manual), make a simple discount code for the new site, and put that code on a card in every etsy order for a couple of months. keep etsy running until the new site has real repeat orders, then phase it out.”
“The honest trade: Shopify is a commerce engine with a mediocre site builder. Squarespace is a good site builder with a decent shop attached. If your growth is repeat buyers and social traffic, you will outgrow the shop half of Squarespace before you outgrow the builder half of Shopify.”
“Unfortunately Squarespace doesn’t allow you to undo version upgrades, so you’d have to rebuild the site if all the styles are gone, or explore other builders. How much did your site change due to the upgrade?”
“I'd also check the renewal price rather than just the introductory price before deciding. It's easy to move a domain later, but moving the actual website from a proprietary builder can be more awkward.”
“@squarespace I've had a new email account I created become suspended before I could even set a permanent password. It says I need to log in to contact support, but I can't log in. Help?”
“They are attempting to do the entire website so that no coding is needed. This seems to limit layout options for both Desktop mode and Mobile. The mobile images are cropped in uncontrollable ways, text seems to do better, etc.”
“The big downside is that it is more like coding than using dynamic CMS:es like WP or Squarespace. If you can cross that barrier it's a great tool but I wouldn't recommend it to my non-technical friends.”
“I maintain client sites on Webflow, Squarespace and Wix and I hae cleaned up after enough translation add-ons to have one rule: before ypu look at price or language count, open a translated page and look at the URL.”
“I use a Squarespace website and Acuity now has a direct plugin with Squarespace so that is the direction I am leaning, but I am not educated on the differences.”
“Wix was fine until I wanted the blog to rank, worst page speed of the four. The blog is the only reason I care about the builder, that's where calls come from now; SupaTraffic posts the articles into Webflow daily and I don't touch the site otherwise.”
“The regular search page looks across the whole site, which is what you ran into. A search block can be limited to one collection, such as a blog page. You can use a blog page to build the dictionary, then enable the 'Search Specific Page' option in the search block settings so it only includes results from the blog/dictionary.”
“Wix or Squarespace feel a bit overkill for what you're describing, they're more for businesses trying to look polished. The free WordPress theme selection is massive too so you can make it look how you want without much effort”
“If people are mostly browsing and you take orders via another method (DM, phone, etc.), something like Shopify or Squarespace will have you up and running within a weekend and will handle the more challenging aspects for you, such as payments, inventory and mobile compatibility. There's no coding involved, and it won't look amateurish either.”
“Lol. Thats among the business model of mainstream squarespace, godaddy, shopify etc. They upsell 6284215 different inflated shit added to your cart and they expect you to forget about them and indefinitely pay without any care in the world. And it works because they're that popular and less observant people keep falling for that shit.”
“The most annoying thing is to use my own domain I already had alongside their website builder I had to transfer it to them. Then when I wanted to leave squarespace and go down the Wordpress.org route, I had to pay to transfer it again”
“Tried poking around Wix and Squarespace and I keep bouncing between “this is fine” and “this feels kinda limited once you want anything slightly custom”. For those of you who rebuilt your business site recently, which builder did you go with and what made it feel like the right call?”
“For that kind of site, I’d probably go with Squarespace. It’s simple, looks good out of the box, and you don’t have to deal with plugins and maintenance.”
“Contact Squarespace support directly and explain that the domain shows as Squarespace hosted but isn't appearing in your account. They can look up the domain on their end and transfer ownership to your account manually, it's something only their backend team can fix, you can't resolve it through either dashboard yourself.”
“TLDR; Google and Squarespace are both telling me to go to each other to get my domain hosted by SS but managed by Google to work with my SS website, and I don’t know what to do.”
“Static site generators like Eleventy or even a plain HTML/JS page hosted free on GitHub Pages or Netlify handle this well without touching Wix or Squarespace's built-in search, which only does full-site text matching.”
“For the love of god don’t pick a website host you have to eternally pay for, I don’t know what the better options are but I chose Squarespace and it’s annoying having to pay monthly while I have a job.”
“Beyond that, I feel I'm paying a lot monthly for an app with lots of possibilities I'm never going to use, plus I've never found the way to properly link it with platforms like Airbnb Experience or Getyourguide (where I also offer bookings, but have no support for Acuity and that cost me some overlappings in the past).”
“Thank you; we already have squarespace but wanted to really get a permanent logo and gear up branding. We have our concept but would like to bring in a professional.”
“We were discussing how cool it would be to make an online dictionary on this, so we tested out easy website builders like Wix and Squarespace but we couldn't figure out how to execute what we wanted to achieve. Basically a search bar would be enough (like in Merriam-Webster).**”
“Hello - I would really like to make a Christian website where I sell photography products (eg cards), and preferably would have liked to use a print on demand company like Gelato, and a website maker like Squarespace, or a company similar to Etsy. Problem is though, I think people can sell sinful content through those services.”
“If you’re looking at wix or squarespace, the easiest (and cheapest) option would likely be a Wordpress website with a custom post type (CPT); a post for each word. There is built in search functionality , would show results and link to that post.”
“Since your first tries were using tools like Wix and SquareSpace it *seems* that you and your friend are newer to development. If that’s the case, you have thought of an excellent project to learn a lot of new skills.”
“We were discussing how cool it would be to make an online dictionary on this, so we tested out easy website builders like Wix and Squarespace but we couldn't figure out how to execute what we wanted to achieve.”
“Wix/Squarespace are easiest if you want to edit everything yourself; WordPress gives you more flexibility but requires more maintenance. If the site is mainly there to generate calls and enquiries, I’d prioritize mobile performance, services, reviews, service areas and a very obvious contact/quote CTA over adding lots of features.”