Squarespace Review — The Key Features and Pros and Cons

Hey all, it’s Jonathan from Style Factory here.

In this Squarespace review, I’m going to highlight the key things that you need to

know about this popular website builder. I’ll take you through 5 really great

things about the platform, and 5 things that might make you think twice about using it.

Let’s start things off with a look at the advantages of using Squarespace.

1. The Squarespace templates are great.

Squarespace templates look great and can help you achieve professional

results really quickly. There’s around 170 of these bundled with the platform,

and they have a wow factor that you won’t find from many competing platforms’ templates.

And, thanks to their responsive, mobile-friendly design, websites and online stores created using

Squarespace look great not just on desktop computers but on smartphones and tablets too.

2. The platform is easy to use

With Squarespace, you don’t need to install any software

to build a website — everything is done online in your web browser.

You won’t face much of a learning curve from the platform — you simply click on something you’d

like to change and use the controls provided to edit text, images, colours or fonts.

And, thanks to its new AI-powered ‘Blueprint’ feature, Squarespace can do quite a lot of the

design work for you. With Blueprint, you enter a few details about the type of site you’d like

to build, specify some design preferences, and Squarespace will use this information

to automatically create a draft of your website. 3. You can sell online easily with Squarespace.

Squarespace comes with built-in ecommerce features

that let you sell not just physical products but digital products, subscriptions and site

memberships too. As with the Squarespace interface in general, the learning curve

here is not steep and you can get going with ecommerce really quickly using the platform.

In particular, Squarespace is great for selling gated content like membership

areas or online courses, and it lets you add a paywall to your blog too.

4. Squarespace gives you access to email marketing

Squarespace not only provides you with a way to build a website or online store, but gives

you access to a sophisticated email marketing system that lets you promote your business too.

This integrates well with your Squarespace website, is easy to use,

and lets you make use of attractive templates to market your site’s content and products.

Add-on fees apply for using this, but they are reasonable.

5. Squarespace is great for creating content sites.

Squarespace comes with blogging tools, galleries and magazine-style layouts

that make the platform a great choice for anyone working in a creative i ndustry.

Its image manipulation tools are particularly good — you can edit photos in a large number of

ways using Squarespace, and present them nicely using attractive gallery formats.

Ok — so that’s 5 things we really like about Squarespace. But what about its disadvantages?

I’m going to come onto that in just a moment, but before I do I just wanted