ArtsAutosBooksBusinessEducationEntertainmentFamilyFashionFoodGamesGenderHealthHolidaysHomeHubPagesPersonal FinancePetsPoliticsReligionSportsTechnologyTravel

Why Squarespace Templates are better for Business and Photographers

Updated on February 13, 2013
Source

What's Squarespace 6?

Squarespace is a great CMS (Content management System) that allows you to create stunning and beautiful websites in no time.

The main advantage of Squarespace, from my point of view, is integration.

Instead of dealing with different technical stuff like domain names, hosting services, Wordpress or plugins and installations via FTP, Squarespace allows you to create multiple websites under its own platform, and they'll take care of the rest.

You just need to create a user and you're good to go. Don't worry about the rest. You can now focus on your design and content.

But I'm not here to talk about that exactly. If you've followed me since I started posting on Hubpages, you'll know the reason I don't post here that much, is because I decided to create my own blog (which you can see on my profile).

There, I did a great review about Squarespace 6 new platform and the FABs (features, Advantages, Benefits) of it.

Let's talk about why is Squarespace a great platform for Bloggers, Business and Photographers.

Squarespace is great for Business and Portfolios
Squarespace is great for Business and Portfolios

Why Photographers, Business and Bloggers?

When you think about website builders, it's impossible to think that one service will filt for all your purposes. Some builders are great for e-commerce sites, for example. Some others are better for blogs, Magazines or News sites.

The thing is, that there are some great things that you could use from Squarespace 6, that you won't find in other CMS, and that's fine. However, Wordpress is very versatile platform (Squarespace vs Wordpress Analysis) and you'll probably find anything you need to create your website there.

The problem is sometimes you don't have the time/money/patience/coding skills to achieve that. Especially if you're a writer, photographer or just a business owner, there are little probabilities you understand about coding. Perhaps you've never heard about hosting and domain names, and that sucks because it makes you think building the right website is almost imposible without paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for a programmer.

Here's where Squarespace differs from the competition:

  • Simple and very intuitive interface: If you know how to read (yeah, some people seem to get blind when trying to do something important) Squarespace 6 will be like opening Microsoft Word. That simple.
  • Integration: As I've said before, with Squarespace 6 you have everything you need to create a website, in the same place. that's great because you don't have to deal with different accounts, payments and technical stuff. Everything just works, and you'll use 1 user account only.

Create wonderful websites with Squarespace 6
Create wonderful websites with Squarespace 6

Great for Photographers and Portfolios

Additionally to the 2 main benefits you have as a business owner or blogger, there's one great advantage for Photographers or people looking to create a Portfolio.

Those advantages are:

  • Great Gallery features: you can setup sliders, auto reproductions, resize images and more automatically and create Thumbnails in an easy way
  • Pinterest-like templates: Squarespace offers a lot of templates for Photographers, and some of them even look like Pinterest if you're looking for those.
  • Mobile Responsiveness: Which means no matter whether you're watching your website from your Macbook, PC, iPad or Smartphone, your website will look great and the pictures are automatically resized so you don't have to load a big size image in a small device.
  • You can manage your website from an App (Android or iOS) on the go

So, as you can see, those are especial benefits that you won't find in other CMS unless you modify or get the right plugins, but in Squarespace, they're already integrated on the User Interface.

Great look no matter where you're watching it
Great look no matter where you're watching it

Conclusion

If you're a Photographer, Business Owner or even a blogger and you have no technical skills or simply don't want to mess up with different accounts, code and more, then Squarespace is your option.

As you can see, I'm definitely not trying to sell this service or including a lot of affiliate links on the post whatsoever.

But if you want to try it you can START HERE.

They have a really nice 14 day free trial so you can test everything and then decide if you like it or not (no credit card required).

Until the next time!

Keep safe.

working

This website uses cookies

As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.

For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy

Show Details
Necessary
HubPages Device IDThis is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons.
LoginThis is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service.
Google RecaptchaThis is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy)
AkismetThis is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy)
HubPages Google AnalyticsThis is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy)
HubPages Traffic PixelThis is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized.
Amazon Web ServicesThis is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy)
CloudflareThis is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy)
Google Hosted LibrariesJavascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy)
Features
Google Custom SearchThis is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy)
Google MapsSome articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
Google ChartsThis is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy)
Google AdSense Host APIThis service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
Google YouTubeSome articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
VimeoSome articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
PaypalThis is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
Facebook LoginYou can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
MavenThis supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy)
Marketing
Google AdSenseThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Google DoubleClickGoogle provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Index ExchangeThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
SovrnThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Facebook AdsThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Amazon Unified Ad MarketplaceThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
AppNexusThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
OpenxThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Rubicon ProjectThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
TripleLiftThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Say MediaWe partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy)
Remarketing PixelsWe may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites.
Conversion Tracking PixelsWe may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service.
Statistics
Author Google AnalyticsThis is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy)
ComscoreComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy)
Amazon Tracking PixelSome articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy)
ClickscoThis is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy)