In the meantime, make sure you read our series of tips, in association
with Squarespace, to learn how to make your website as successful as possible.
We've teamed up
with Squarespace to put together a range of helpful advice on creating a website.
It's super-easy
with Squarespace.
As part of our series
with Squarespace to help you build and manage a successful website, we'll now look at some of the most common and effective strategies for encouraging people visitors stay on your website longer.
I tried moving to a Shopify site, but I can't get their templates to look as nice, and you just don't have the design control that you do
with Squarespace.
With Squarespace, there are no pieces of software to assemble, no comparison shopping to do, nothing to install, and no maintenance required on your part.
Here, we're breaking down how to get started
with Squarespace, with advice from a few of our favorite wedding photographers (who have some pretty breathtaking websites).
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with Squarespace.
This post was in partnership
with Squarespace, but all of the opinions within are those of The Everygirl editorial board.
We partnered
with Squarespace — our go - to platform for beautiful, functional, scalable websites — to bring you our best tips on creating the right website for your business.
When you start setting up your site
with Squarespace, be sure to use our coupon code «EVERYGIRL17» for 10 % off your first purchase.
I also work
with Squarespace to create websites — this came out of a desire to showcase my client's products in the best way.
For example, I partnered
with Squarespace (because I really believe in their product) and created an online blogging workshop.
Not exact matches
«Commerce is going to be really big
with us, and we want to show we can compete head - to - head
with major commerce competitors,» said
Squarespace's founder and CEO Anthony Casalena, a group that includes Weebly, Wix, Shopify and GoDaddy, all of which offer specialized commerce features for small businesses.
With the new commerce product offerings, Casalena wants to enable small business owners to create sites on
Squarespace where commerce is the focus, not an add - on feature.
Squarespace began the process of designing its new 98,000 - square - foot headquarters two years ago
with architecture firm A + I. Opened in March 2016, the only color in the minimalist space is the green plant life.
You can easily set up a template landing page for your new website through WordPress or
Squarespace with your new domain name, and embed an analytic function in the page using Google analytics.
If this sounds complicated, know that anyone
with a computer can set this up in 10 minutes, and there are even more simple alternatives such as Shopify and
Squarespace for ecommerce needs.
Squarespace offers a fully - integrated ecommerce solution alongside their robust website builder,
with no shortage of themes and templates to choose from.
It's clear the
Squarespace platform leans toward perfecting design rather than marketing and functionality, which can be a double - edged sword for those who are just getting started
with ecommerce.
I'm back
with an outfit post, but most importantly, my broken Wordpress site has been re-branded and moved to
Squarespace.
However,
with each «fix» they managed to screw it up even more, and so, I threw in the towel and moved back to my first love —
Squarespace!
We love
Squarespace for wedding photography portfolios because the sleek, minimal templates they offer pair beautifully
with large - scale images — a photographer's bread and butter.
Squarespace offers a variety of templates for your aesthetic
with easily accessible navigation panes.
Squarespace has your back
with 24/7 customer support — a true business lifesaver.
If you can't solve a problem yourself,
Squarespace offers a 24/7 customer care team to offer help
with any questions or concerns.
is easy, as
Squarespace templates already have an about page pre-created and filled
with demo content.
Through relationships
with leading platforms such as Assemble, Instagram,
Squarespace, Facebook, Twitter, GoWatchIt, and Blurb we provide best practices for alumni, and curate their work
with Sundance Institute support.
How can
Squarespace possibly compete
with that?
Squarespace's unified front end and back end, along
with its drag - and - drop approach, makes the site - building process streamlined and intuitive.
One thing I have noticed
with WordPress themes is the number of sites falling in ranking on Alexa.com I would like to see some
Squarespace sites to see if the same is happening
with them.
I actually prefer Format
with their new store features to
Squarespace, but other than that great advice!
However, such platforms including
Squarespace come
with their own major challenges.
One of the reasons many authors choose
Squarespace over self - hosted websites is the ease
with which they can set up and run their websites.
Here's a simple breakdown: I have a
Squarespace site and I took the Google Tag Manager code and added it to my site's template (you can do this similarly
with WordPress).
And
Squarespace specifically partners
with Google so you get a professional looking email address, analytics, and even Adwords — look at you turning your writing into a business!
For example, I wanted to put a sign to form on a cover page, but it wasn't compatible
with that kind of
Squarespace page.
When you get a Shopify,
Squarespace, Weebly website, you throwing your fortunes together
with these companies.
You can find other Print - on - demand resources just by Googling that term along
with whatever platform you're using, i.e., «Print On Demand Plugin for
Squarespace».
Experience working
with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, FileMaker Pro, and
Squarespace preferred; and an interest in website design, filmmaking, and video editing highly appreciated.
+ Any experience
with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, FileMaker Pro, and
Squarespace preferred; and an interest in website design, filmmaking, and video editing highly appreciated.
· Experience working
with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, FileMaker Pro, and
Squarespace preferred; and an interest in website design, filmmaking, photo and video editing highly appreciated.
Even better, you never need worry about all the other things that come
with a website because
Squarespace does all that for you.
With affordable website building tools like
Squarespace, there is no excuse to have a bad website these days.
If you need some images to add to your site,
Squarespace has recently teamed up
with Getty Images to offer its users some affordable stock photography.
If you're looking to advertise
with Creative Boom — joining brands such as BBC, Yahoo, Samsung and
Squarespace — please email our advertising team and we'll provide you
with our latest media pack.
The BCC hosts quarterly exhibitions and releases publications in collaboration
with sponsors
Squarespace and X-acto.
This is
Squarespace's primary advantage: everything you need to design a custom website and publish new posts and pages is all in one place,
with no real technical expertise necessary.
The business of platforms for developing websites and publishing online is a crowded one,
with established players like WordPress, Wix, Zoho, Weebly, Duda Mobile and
Squarespace competing against newer entrants like Medium and the likes of LinkedIn.
As one app builder put it, the decision to limit these small businesses» ability to compete on the App Store is as if a web hosting company said that they would no longer allow web pages built
with WordPress templates or those made using website wizards from services like Wix or
Squarespace.