“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.”
“There are obviously cheaper options if you want to save money and but squarespace offers a ton of value for the price they offer. You may not need that value but they do not have any predatory services.”
“cloudlfare pages is free, they can host a website, buy a domain from claudflare as well, $5 at most for a year, unless sought after TLDs like .photo but will be cheaper than squarespace anyway. as for the website, as much as i’m an ai hater, just ask claude for a simple portfolio website.”
“what exactly do you have on your squarespace site? can you maybe go on a with a link in bio tool + insta + some public portfolio galleries on the same site/service that you use to deliver your photos with?”
“I moved a bunch of clients from Squarespace to custom builds for pretty much the same reason, like you pay once, you own it end-to-end, and you tweak the content yourself through a CMS, without having to go near code. There’s no monthly subscription drip that slowly drains you for a site that hasn’t really changed in three years.”
“Needing to migrate from Squarespace as can’t in good faith support their insatiable greed and sheer absence of client care. I started with an $18 a month bog standard template that suited my drag & drop capabilities, & today three years on, my billing is $60 for the exact same site.”
“Stupidly, I transferred my domain from Squarespace over to Wix. Now my site is down and could be up to 8 days. Is there anyway to stop this, and get my Domain back to Sqaurespace?”
“This is the actual tradeoff of squarespace and it's fair to feel it. site-wide styles are the thing that keeps every page consistent and stops sites turning into a mess of 14 fonts, but the cost is exactly what you've hit, you can't easily go off-script for one section.”
“In terms of builders, most graphic designers will find Squarespace much easier. Framer is a little more technically involved, but it can make more custom designs and animations.”
“I've been using Squarespace so long, I think I'm used to it but so far I think it's been the most user friendly. Weebly is trash and I'm getting ready to switch.”
“Wix is simpler as a whole. I have a ton of clients who’ve hired me to build Squarespace websites because they need it all set up for them properly; it’s difficult to know the ins and outs of the platform and also the caveats.”
“It’s certainly not a perfect platform, but I find people that claim Squarespace is more complicated or harder to use are people that haven’t actually tried to use other website builders.”
“The simplicity of Squarespace first drew me to the platform, but I'm finding, more and more, that its styles and 'time-saving' themes are actually a detriment.”
“Every time I log in to make a small change, something's asking to be updated, reconfigured, or re approved first. It's turned into that feeling of owning a house where you're never quite done with repairs you fix one thing and start bracing for the next.”
“The thing I like most is that there is no maintenance I have to do, as I did with WordPress. I don’t have to worry about plugins breaking when they are updated.”
“Squarespace is one of the cleanest and most straightforward platforms out there. It’s simple enough for anyone to get a solid site up and running, but it can scale in complexity when you start bringing in third-party plugins, making full use of the blog or e-commerce tools, and working with summary blocks.”
“Squarespace is brilliant - I've built 12 websites with it for clients including a solar business, a consultant, an interior designer, an artist and a fitness instructor. It's easy to learn and the templates are good.”
“The one area where it falls short is podcasting -- it's pretty awful for that, and it's pretty clear that hosting audio is not a priority for the company.”
“I recommend considering WordPress, it is beginner-friendly and more customizable than Squarespace. You just need a hosting package, install WordPress, and start building, and a hosting package is way cheaper than Squarespace as well.”
“Squarespace is great for quick, easy sites with a chic look but if you want more control as you grow, other options like WordPress might be better just more setup involved.”
“Yeah, Squarespace is super easy to use and great for getting started fast. Just remember, it includes hosting in the price, so it might cost more than separate hosting + builder combos. Totally fine if you want simple and no fuss though.”
“I can't stand squarespace, have had awful experiences with them, both on dealing with a domain name and the actual site creation. They have almost no customer service”
“Where Squarespace has it beat is if you use the scheduling component where people book you directly from their site. I don't use that so I don't care about it.”