Squarespace is our preferred platform for content-based websites
Squarespace's visual design makes it the perfect website platform to make your images & photographs shine. Some of the types of businesses that are particularly suitable for a Squarespace website are restaurants, cafes, yoga studios, photographers, hairdressers, blogs, portfolios & more.
What is Squarespace?
Squarespace launched in 2003 & has grown steadily since, gaining over a million customers over the years. Squarespace is an all-in-one, self-contained CMS (content management system). This means you never have to worry about updating software, plugins, or widgets; patch security vulnerabilities, or worry that you might break your website. There are no security updates or patches to worry about. Squarespace also offers free SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates with their websites which means your website visitors will have a secure connection on every page. Squarespace is also flexible & scalable so you can rest assured that as your business grows, your website will grow with you.
Visually appealing & responsive websites
Squarespace websites are beautifully & thoughtfully designed to incorporate cutting-edge UI/UX best practices, which means your website will have the best form & function without having to pay for expensive UI/UX design services.
Mobile traffic now accounts for more than half of all website traffic so it’s critical that your website looks and functions across all screen size. Your Squarespace website comes with a unique mobile experience that matches your overall style of your website so your content will look great on every device, every time.
Built-in search engine optimisation
We get that SEO can be boring and the last thing you want to deal with but it’s one of the most important elements of your website. After all, whats the point of an amazing website if no one can find it? Luckily every Squarespace website is equipped with all the elements needed for a strong SEO strategy. Site descriptions, page titles, custom URLs, search friendly formatting, and other key elements are all easily managed even for an SEO beginner.
Room to grow
You want to make sure that your website investment will grow and scale as your business does. Squarespace was designed for everyone from bloggers to musicians to online retailers, so you can be confident that it is robust and flexible enough to grow with you.
Building a website can be overwhelming, so we will walk you through the process, from start-to-finish, sharing our knowledge & experience with you along the way. Before we start, we get you to fill out our project form which will help us both identify your business & website needs.
Easy to use.
Squarespace is easy to use so you can easily maintain, update, & monitor your website on your own (of course we do have our Digital Concierge services available if you would prefer us to make changes to your website for you).
Building & editing pages is a matter of dragging & dropping blocks in a page editor with clearly labeled menus & panels.
What about eCommerce?
While Squarespace is flexible, robust & powerful for content-based websites, it is lacking some of the more sophisticated elements that eCommerce stores need such as recurring payments, wholesale, paywalls, restricted content areas, inventory management software & point of sale systems. From our experience, we believe that Shopify is the better option for scaling when it comes to eCommerce stores.
Squarespace Pricing.
Squarespace has 4 pricing plans to suit businesses of all sizes starting from $16 per month (if paid annually). The pricing plan is simple, affordable, & transparent, plus there are no hidden or unexpected additional costs so you will know how much your website is costing you each month or year (depending on which plan you choose). See here for pricing & plans.
If you choose us to build your website (& why wouldn't you?), you won't have to pay for your plan until you are ready to launch (up to 6 months) plus you will receive 25% off annual plans (for your first year only). It's worth choosing us just for that don't you think?