“The templates help guide you with design-forward thinking, whereas Wix gives more freedom and that freedom is how first sites end up cluttered. Whatever you pick, write your text before you touch the builder.”
“If you just want to build a landing page drag-and-drop, you could just use an existing website builder like Wix or SquareSpace. No coding required, just drag-and-drop graphical building. Wix has a "free tier" with Wix ads on your page.”
“So if you build a Squarespace website for someone and transfer ownership to them, they will still need to keep that website on a paid Squarespace plan for it to stay live.”
“A move to Squarespace will not fix a booking that only works sometimes. Test the whole journey first: book from a phone, make sure the customer gets a confirmation, check the details arrive and see what happens when the email fails.”
“squarespace won't fix silent booking failures, it'll just fail differently. whatever you move to, get a text or email sent to you on every new booking from outside the platform — then you find out even when the site doesn't tell you.”
“Squarespace's templates tend to look cleaner out of the box for event/festival-type sites; Wix gives you more layout flexibility if you want custom sections per sponsor tier etc. Either way it's a few structured pages, not a technical build — a page builder is honestly the right tool here, not overkill.”
“You however are basically running a blog as a website and that is perfectly fine on Squarespace. Squarespace will result in a more stable platform - and I imagine that will be key to your higher ups.”
“It could be a local cache or connection issue rather than Squarespace being down completely. Is the Squarespace dashboard itself loading for you, or is everything Squarespace-related failing?”
“A showcase that changes a few times a year is the worst case for the subscription builders, you'd be paying Wix or Squarespace monthly forever for what is basically a photo gallery with a contact form.”
“I've worked with Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, WordPress and most recently Weebly. I guess if you really want the absolute most simple interface with no options at all, Weebly is your best bet.”
“I personally wouldn’t recommend Squarespace right now just because of how expensive their plans have become. When I first launched my website I paid $96/year and this year it was going to increase (again) to about $206/yr.”
“It’s great for websites. Honestly I completely understand why you’re pissed but this is an opportunity for an upgrade from squarespace which sucks in comparison.”
“Everything I find seems to be focused on using Replit for other types of development, the closest being web apps. Our site is static content, and we add new pages when we come up with a new service or post to our blog, which is also perhaps once a month no more. We have no online store, and everything we’ve needed has been provided by the built in Squarespace blocks.”
“If you're already willing to move I'd probably look at Durable too before committing to Squarespace. I've found it much less fiddly for a basic service business site especially if you mainly need somewhere that looks professional and lets people contact/book with you”
“Making the move to Squarespace will definitely be worth the effort for your somatic coaching practice. The exact issues driving you crazy on Wix—floating design elements that drift out of place and silent booking glitches stem from how Wix is built.”
“For learning Squarespace design, I’d start with the official Squarespace Help Center and their design templates. Looking at how existing templates are structured can teach you a lot about what’s possible without the sales pitch.”
“All website builders have evolved with so many tools, but Squarespace seems to be the easiest one so far. So you might try this one, as it offers a free 14-day trial so you can test it out and see how it goes.”
“Squarespace is nice for simple business/portfolio sites, but if selling online is going to be an important part of the business, I’d rather start on something more ecommerce-focused now than migrate later.”
“I've basically done this, thankfully squarespace recognized this is fraud and cancelled the domain. Google on the other hand is run by some genuine low iq morons, they are refusing to cancel that fraudulent workspace account since "its already logged in therefore you can cancel it from the logged in device" which is idiotic on so many levels.”
“squarespace's cheapest plan takes 2% of every sale on top of whatever your card processor charges, and you only get to 0% on core, which works out more than shopify basic. shopify's 0% too as long as you're using shopify payments.”
“For 200 orders and a postal bakery, I'd go Squarespace unless you already know you want to scale hard. The honest split is this: Shopify is a commerce engine with a website attached, Squarespace is a website with a shop attached. At your volume you don't need the engine yet.”
“I'm not saying Squarespace is worse than Wordpress, Webflow, Framer, Wix. I just wish that by now we could just design beautiful sites without having to code, or do workarounds for different screen sizes.”
“Depending on what you're selling: Squarespace or Wix work fine if you just need a storefront that looks good and takes contact inquiries. If you want actual sales but something simple, Shopify's free tier or even a basic Shopify plan is cheaper than people think.”
“Added bonus: I got to use my favorite font combination because they're Adobe fonts and Squarespace, for some reason, has a license to some Adobe fonts. I do love Swear Display and Degular.”
“something like \`<a href="file.mp3" download>download</a>\` did the trick, but i'm not sure how much control squarespace gives you over raw markup these days”
“Squarespace, Zenfolio, Smugmug and the like are total overkill for a simple portfolio. Those are better for people who really want to customize and tweak their layouts and designs like with CSS support, have a healthy back end for multi-gallery management, support photo clients with private galleries, etc.”