While it is true that Squarespace has a tightly curated library of templates to work with, the templates are there to act as a jumping-off point. I aim for a website that is distinctly and beautifully branded, but maintains a familiar user experience.

Having the right branding, imagery, and copy are prerequisites to creating a great website. If you are starting from scratch, I can help you create the best assets possible by giving you detailed instructions on what exactly I need and guide you through the process. I can provide you with written copy, graphic design, and photography as needed.

Things are rarely as free as they first appear. Once you add in costs for hosting, domains, themes, apps, plugins, custom domains, and removing third-party ads, you’re looking at a price significantly higher than “free.” An advantage to using Squarespace is the ability to package domains, hosting, customer support, and continued improvements into a single monthly or annual payment.

If you have strong search rankings for key pages or blog posts that you'd like preserved, switching platforms may cause a temporary dip in established search ranking. With Squarespace, however, that dip can be significantly reduced.

First, Squarespace supports importing from most popular blogging platforms, letting you keep the types of content that often contributes the most to your SEO rankings.

Second, it’s easy to customize URLs so inbound links will continue to work.

Third, if some pages don’t migrate over to Squarespace, it’s simple to create redirects that preserve those pages’ SEO value.