Squarespace Pros and Cons

Literary nothing, all their services are subpar garbage masked in beautiful branding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DNS Propagation takes forever, at least 3 days where with EVERY other domain registrar nowadays they're almost instantanious. Squarespace is the only company left back in 1999.

Their support is non-existent, unable to reach them, BUT if you hit up sales they immediately jump on the chat to sell you on stuff Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I appreciate the customization Squarespace offers. Between adding blocks and the CSS editor the possibilites are endless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Personally, I prefer the classic editor over the fluid engine. I find the fluid engine overlaps elements.

I do also find that Squarespace does not have built in solutions for things like uploading files to forms or adding table blocks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Squarespace's ease of use allows any one to set up great sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Squarespace lacks some features for fast growing startups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Aspects of the editing process behind the scenes are easy.

- The analytics breakdown of website's traffic is detailed and easy to understand.

- Easy to hire someone to work on the website since most people are familiar with Squarespace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Aspects of it are hard for the common person to work on. Some things I've had to hire others for.

- Some parts of editing the pages are difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use

Affordable

Premium templates

SEO Friendliness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of functionalities

Less number of Plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface is so straightforward that the learning curve is pretty short — it took me maybe 5 minutes to feel fluent. As a UX/UI designer, it is extremely important for me to be able to fine-tune my designs to pixel perfection, including spacing, exact colors, fonts, sizes, and weights. Squarespace is almost perfect in this sense, which is not the case with the majority of other drag-and-drop website constructors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The things I was missing were small and did not influence the overall experience. Thinking from the perspective of 'What can be better,' I would be glad to be able to use shortcuts common to different design software. Additionally, creating reusable components would be beneficial. While the header and footer were reusable, for example, the contact form that needed to be the same on each page had to be edited manually, page by page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ease of domain hosting is simply amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

there are no features i do not like about squarespace Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part of Squarespace is the ease in laying out the building blocks for putting together an efficient, complex, and sophisticated looking website. Learning the software to use the tools takes a bit if time and practice, but once that is done, the creativity part takes over mostly. I've been using it for three years now and I always look forward to using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up a hosted domain name and/or sswitching from another website has proven to be challenging. Sometimes the instructions given by Squarespace for transferring domain names were different than the actual step needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that you can achieve a really nice aesthetic with ease - and lots of templates to do so. The customer service has also been wonderful anytime I've needed it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes special effects are limited and I've found it's not as searchable as other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The variety of templates and how easy it is to customize and add your own touch to make the website your own. Great for beginner web-designers or someone looking to set up their own webpage but has no webdesign experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being limited within the 'sqaurespace bubble'. They provide great looking templates that are easy to customize, but if you want to step out of the realms which that template provides it can be challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.