Why We Love Squarespace
There are so many website platforms out there and it can be overwhelming when it comes to choosing which one to go with. Over the years we’ve tried them all and when it comes to content-based websites, we go with Squarespace every time.
To break it down simply, 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 & websites that only need basic e-commerce.
But 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.
Former Miss Universe Australia Tegan Martin’s Website built and designed in Squarespace by Toasted Coconut CreativeVisually 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.
Squarespace is responsive which means that your customers can view your website on any device & screen size so your content will look great on every device, every time. This is vital as you will find at least 50% of people will access your website on a mobile device or tablet.
Easy to use
One of the other reasons we love using Squarespace for our clients is that it is easy to use. Once we hand over their shiny, new website our clients can easily update their website and make changes without our help. Of course, we are always here to help, but we believe in giving our clients the tools to succeed and having a website that they can maintain themselves is imperative.
Building & editing pages is a matter of dragging & dropping blocks in a page editor with clearly labelled menus & panels. Since introducing Squarespace 7.0 there are even more features & design elements that can be used with Squarespace.
Grows with your business
You want to make sure you have a website that can scale and grow as your business does. Luckily Squarespace is a robust and powerful platform that will do just that and offers an extensive suite of online tools. You can start with a website and add additional features as your business grows such as third-party apps, Email Campaigns, e-commerce, subscriptions and memberships, Point of sale, Scheduling tools and so much more.
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.
Read our article on Why We Love Shopify For e-Commerce
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?
Why use Toasted Coconut Creative to build your Squarespace website?
Yes, you can build your Squarespace site for yourself but we have been building them for years. This means we can build your site quicker than you & have it ready to launch thanks to our experience with Squarespace & knowledge of website best practices. Not to brag but we also have something called the design eye which simply means we know what looks good when it comes to website design.
We build our Squarepsace websites in 7.0 which means we don’t use templates, we create all of our websites from scratch to create your perfectly unique website.
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.
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