I’m sure you’ll agree with me when I say:

Choosing the right website builder is hard. Furthermore, choosing the wrong one and finding out too late is frustrating.

Is it really this hard?

Well… it does not have to be this way: if you read a couple of reviews and try each out for 5 minutes, you will most likely choose the right one for you.

There are many different website builders out in the market today. The largest ones today are Wix and Weebly.

In this article I am going to give you an honest Squarespace review. All you have to do is reserve a couple of minutes of your time and scroll down…

Make sure to read the Wix review and Weebly review as well before making the final decision.

Squarespace (since 2006) is an American cloud-based website building and hosting software.

Squarespace is a classic drag-and-drop website builder. The website building is done by modifying pre-built website templates.

Squarespace is currently powering a little over 2 million websites from different locations worldwide.

The advantage over its competitors, like Wix and Weebly, is definitely design. Squarespace offers over 100 pre-built templates, that look professional and perfect in every aspect.

It does not stop there, all the templates also adapt to mobile devices with perfection, so the users don’t have to build two versions of their sites.

Squarespace’s main features include:

• Drag-and-drop website builder
• Pre-built, professional and amazing looking templates
• Marketing tools: SEO, email campaigns, social media and many more

Obviously the list is long here. Squarespace has everything for building, hosting and maintaining a successful website.

If you want to dig deeper, I recommend continuing with this Squarespace review…

Are you in an industry where you really need to stand out with your design? If yes, then Squarespace is definitely the way to go for you.

Like most website builders, Squarespace is ideal for small businesses, since the cost for a professional-looking website is extremely low.

I find Squarespace a perfect fit for:

• Bloggers
• Personal websites
• Business websites
• Photographers
• Even for eCommerce sites

Squarespace has all the tools for eCommerce sites, but in my honest opinion, I find eCommerce specialized sites like Shopify and BigCommerce better for the occasion.

Squarespace’s drag-and-drop editor is quite simple, but it’s certainly not the easiest one in the market. If you find Squarespace’s editor too complicated I suggest using Wix or Weebly.

Continue reading this Squarespace review to find out more about the editor and how to use it.

Getting started is simple with Squarespace: you just have to click get started from the top navigation.

Next, Squarespace asks you to choose a pre-built template for your site. Take your time exploring the templates, you will most likely find the one that fits your needs.

After choosing the template you are started: that was really easy, huh?

Now, if you have used other drag-and-drop website builders, you might find Squarespace a bit difficult at first.

The first problem is that you cannot drag elements everywhere on the screen, rather you are provided with some pre-arranged locations. So, Squarespace does not give you complete freedom.

For my personal belief and opinion, usability is a bit affected by the lack of the left side menu. To edit an element you have to click edit on it and a modal opens on the screen with lots of choices.

This kind of solution is not the easiest one to get used to, but it’s fine when you play around with it a bit. For easier editors, you should check Wix or Weebly.

Continue reading this Squarespace review to find out how to use it!

In this section of the Squarespace review, I give you an insight of creating a page in Squarespace and customizing it to your needs.

Getting started is really easy, just sign up and create your first site.

After you have created an account and logged in to Squarespace go to your account page and click create a site on the top right of your screen.

All your websites and domains are listed in your account page and you can edit and delete those from there.

For the next step, you have to choose a template for your site. Take your time, there are many amazing designs you could use. You can see all the templates here and there is a preview available for each template.

After you have chosen your template you will be directed to the page editor. Squarespace asks for your page title and provides a 3-step introduction to the editor and how to use it.

To edit the site’s layout, you have to click edit on the top left of the preview box, now the editor opens. To modify the specific elements, just click on the element.

You can change text elements and their style directly and easily. The customization menu appears above the element and text can be edited like in any other editor.

You can also edit different sections on the page by hovering the section and clicking the pencil button from the top right of your screen. The new menu opens with customization options. You could modify section height, content width, and alignment, also background and colors.

For bigger blocks like header, there might be more options to choose from. For example, for the header, you could change logo, layout, title, colors and much more.

To achieve this hover the header and click edit. A modal opens on the right of your screen. In this modal, you could control every changeable aspect of the header.

Thus far, everything about editing a layout is covered in this Squarespace review… except for moving elements around on the screen.

This is the part where you don’t have full freedom. Squarespace provides you with some sections where you could move specific elements.

It is a sacrifice you have to make if you want to use Squarespace. If this is totally unacceptable for you, I suggest using Wix instead.

To move an element around on Squarespace: hover it and move the cursor towards the side of the element until your cursor changes into a hand. Left-click and start dragging.

If you hit the section the indicator appears in the background, meaning you could drop the element there. If the position is invalid the element will be returned to the initial position.

After you have finished with the layout, you should check if everything looks like expected on the mobile as well. Most of the time it does, but it is always better to be safe than sorry.

To check the mobile version of the layout, click the mobile icon on the top right of the page and site preview will be changed into a mobile layout.

You cannot change the elements in the mobile preview: all the modifications must be done in the desktop view.

Finally, when you are satisfied with the result, click done from the top left of your screen to save the changes.

Next up in this Squarespace review: the design.

Editing design is made easy on Squarespace. It has an easily understandable and intuitive left menu.

To edit design click design from the left menu and menu will transform into a design editor with all the options. You can change mostly everything for every block, like fonts, colors, spacing, etc.

I am not going into detail here, because it’s just not necessary. The design editor is simple and a pleasure to use.

So far, I have covered everything you need to know about building a website that fits your needs with Squarespace.

But there is more, Squarespace is not just a website builder, but rather a complete tool for creating, hosting and maintaining websites. It means that Squarespace has many essential and not so essential tools for websites.

I am not going to explain to you specific tools since there are so many of those, but I will provide you with an overview of using those tools. If you want to know the relevance of Squarespace tools, read the tools section of this Squarespace review as well.

Using Squarespace tools is made really easy.

If you handled the design manager, you will handle the usage of tools with ease. Squarespace offers many tools for your website and those are all maintained from the left menu of the site editor.

Tools include commerce, marketing, analytics and more. Just choose the tool from the left menu and enjoy it.

Now, as you know everything you need to know about building a website with Squarespace, it’s time to discuss pricing. What is a Squarespace review without pricing information?

First of all, I want to point out that Squarespace has a great value for money ratio. It might be slightly more expensive than some of its competitors, like Weebly, but you get more for that as well, including amazing customer support.

Squarespace offers four price plans: personal, business, basic commerce, and advanced commerce. Prices fall into $12 to $40 a month range if paid annually and $16 to $46 a month if paid monthly.

It’s common sense that you should choose the cheapest plan that fits your needs.

To put plans and your needs into frames, I can give you an estimate solution:

• Personal – you need a website without online store capabilities
• Business – you need online store features, but you sell only a little. The store has transaction fees of 3%.
• Basic commerce – you need an online store, you sell enough products to make this plan adequate. The store has transaction fees of 0%. You don’t need advanced eCommerce features like gift cards or limited availability labels.
• Advanced commerce – you need an online store, you sell enough products to make this plan adequate. The store has transaction fees of 0%. You also need advanced eCommerce features like gift cards and limited availability labels.

So the users who do not operate online stores can manage with $12 per month and users with small stores can manage with $18 per month. If you need more you could most likely afford more, since your store has grown quite big.

You can read more about plans and included features here.

In addition to its website building tools like drag-and-drop layout editor and design editor, Squarespace offers many more tools for maintaining your live site and making it successful.

With all of its tools combined, Squarespace is definitely a complete toolkit. It handles everything from creating a website to SEO and analytics.

The feature list is really long and if you need to know details about the features you can do it by following this link. I can just say it has almost everything. If you have a doubt, that it’s missing something essential for you, just check it out to be sure.

Squarespace’s best feature is, of course, its design. I can say with confidence that its templates are the best in the market.

Another advantage Squarespace has over its customers is support. I am not brave enough, to say it has the best support in the industry, but it’s definitely at the top.

All those features and tools and of course amazing support make Squarespace a pleasure to use.

To sum it all up, Squarespace is an amazing tool for people who do not know and do not want to know anything about coding:

• All the templates are pre-built and look astonishing
• It gets you started quickly
• It’s quite easy to understand when you try it out for a short period of time

If you choose Squarespace as your website builder you get stunning designs for both websites and mobile sites, professional and active customer support. You also get a reasonably priced products that you can rely on.

On the downside, you lose a little extra time getting to know Squarespace and also some freedom about placing your elements. If that’s unacceptable for you, check out Wix or Weebly.

Feel like the advantages of weight over shortages? What are you waiting for? Try Squarespace now!