Squarespace

Squarespace offers dozens of useful features related to design, images, layout, management, SEO, and more. This includes:

Style Editor

The page editor allows users to quickly change colors, fonts, layouts, and more to make each page unique without having development or design experience. Images and items can be dragged and dropped to the desired location very easily.

Mobile-Optimised

Squarespace templates are optimised for mobile use, and the advanced packages for online shops also include fully optimised shopping and checkout experiences for mobile users.

SEO Friendly

While there are no SEO-specific tools, Squarespace is optimised for SEO and allows users to edit image tags, insert headers, and more. The company boasts of its ability to create websites with SEO best practices in mind so that additional plugins are not needed.

Extensions

Squarespace allows users to add third-party extensions, making it even easier to design and manage your website. These tools are available across a range of categories including shipping and fulfillment, finance, inventory and products, and sales and marketing.

Custom CSS and Code

A CSS editor and code blogs can be added to create more advanced design changes or add your own features that are not already available in the site builder’s platform.

Adobe Image Editor

All images hosted on Squarespace can be adjusted with the Adobe Image Editor directly from your browser. Editing options include cropping, resizing, rotating, adjusting brightness, and more.

Square Point of Sale (POS)

There is now a Point of Sale available in the Squarespace Commerce app. It allows in-person payment processing to sync with offline sales, all while maintaining customer data, inventory, and sales analytics.

Multiple Ways to Sell

Squarespace is a great solution for those in e-commerce. They provide simple ways to sell not just products, but even services, digital content, and subscription services from your website. With a Basic or Advanced Commerce Plan, you don’t even need to pay transaction fees.

Squarespace offers around 70 unique templates in different categories, each with a sleek and modern design optimised for all devices. Once a template is chosen, it can be modified in the editor with new layouts, images, texts, colors, and fonts for a fully customised website. For users who prefer building a site from scratch, a website and online store can quickly be created without a template, allowing users to design their site starting with a blank white page.

Switching between templates is easy, and users can install multiple templates on a site at once and work on multiple designs simultaneously. Templates can be browsed on the website, filtered by keyword search, or filtered by category. Categories include online stores, art, nonprofits, fashion, entertainment, health & fitness, music, home & living, and more.

Squarespace is an excellent option for anyone that wants to create a good-looking website or online store quickly and without any fuss. An initial draft of a site can be created in under a minute, and editing and customising it is done in an intuitive interface. Each section on the site can be clicked in order to edit its images and content.

A drag & drop interface is also available to edit the layout of each page. Users can simply move sections around by dragging them with their mouse and dropping them in the desired locations. In terms of ease of use, Squarespace is highly suitable for users without development skills and does not require any coding unless very advanced features are required on your site.