how's it going everybody welcome back and today i'm going to be reviewing squarespace
now squarespace is one of the most popular and easiest to use uh web hosting and website building
uh websites out there and it's just an absolutely amazing product really i love using squarespace
it's one of the easiest websites to use it's just super intuitive and there's nothing complicated
about using squarespace which is one of the reasons obviously i i don't code and that's why
i like using squarespace it makes everything super uh easy to just kind of modify and whatnot i'll
be getting into that of course i'm going to be looking into the editor the features the templates
and commerce e-commerce as well as pricing we'll get through all of that but if you're interested
by the way in getting a little discount uh for squarespace make sure to check the link in the
description below uh hopefully you guys can save a little bit more cash than just going
to the regular website without any uh special discounts or links all right now squarespace just
so that you guys know this is not going to be for everybody but it will be suited for most people
because squarespace is not for huge websites you know like university websites or hospital websites
or government websites where there's just a let's say huge load of information it's best suited for
small businesses portfolios blogs podcasts restaurant menus and whatnot and just uh
you know so on and so forth you get the idea and let's start with the editor and uh this is just
an example here of a website one of the websites now i have not renewed my subscriptions so it's
just going to i can't really edit this but this is um simply expired so i can't really edit it uh
so let's just move on here now of course the first thing you're gonna do is pick a template and
this is probably one of squarespace's strongest features is just they're really cool templates
and the variety of templates available at your disposal here is just great um you know whatever
it is that you're looking for you have a bunch of examples here and you can just click anything so
let's say you click one of these and uh you can just preview you know you can preview uh
the tablet kind of view the mobile view and the desktop view just to see how everything looks
and it's just very easy and let's say you pick a design you all you have to do is just
click start this design and um i picked this for example and when it comes to customizing
you know you have your thing here it's very easy you have your website and everything and you can
it's really as simple as just you know customizing whatever it is like um i i don't know instead
of on antoine let's just say um something like john right uh sorya and john or whatever it is
it's super easy to just change everything around let's say you know we'll stick with that you can
edit the site header you can edit everything you can edit photos um let's just go to you can even
add new pages you know add a new page let's say uh blank page and you can just kind of add whatever
it is that you want to this page you already have the template kind of ready here all you need to
do is just add images and whatnot so let's say our story travel stay let's just go with our story and
let's say you want to edit just click edit and you have site styles
you have fonts colors animations spacing buttons image blocks um let's say you
want to change colors it is as easy as just um let's say the like two here and you could just
switch it up uh the site title all the colors you can just change all the colors you want to change
um depending on the template you pick you will notice certain changes uh so let's say
this one right here you could change different elements uh but you could also just pick one
of these presets and as you can tell here everything's changing you can go with more
something more colorful whatever it is depending on your vision and what you're trying to sell
so this is for example this is a wedding so maybe you want to go for something a little
more classy a little more subtle colors that are not as bright and just very relaxing colors
and you want to customize it you know however you want you can do all of that
uh you can just customize it however you want okay uh from image for example you can drop an image
just simply drop it or you can uh change whatever images there there's a great gallery by the way uh
so images here this is the image gallery where you can pick images you can obviously add your
own images but they have a great gallery of images and uh just editing everything is as intuitive as
it gets really so let's say you want to change fonts okay so you have also a bunch of fonts
and by the way you can create this site for free and you will be able to keep your site for 14 days
and you can still keep it in your account but you won't be able to edit it after 14 days uh unless
you subscribe so it's very nice that you can kind of um let's say dip your toes here into the
website builder and see if you like it and if you do like it and you like what you created you can
keep it by subscribing so yeah editing your website has never been easier honestly it's
really easy and this is part of the reason why i recommend uh squarespace for most people that
would just want to start up a website a blog a portfolio whatever it is that they're trying to do
is just really you know one day one day of just spending uh time you know just a few hours kind
of focusing on building your website and you can get it done in a single day it really is as easy
as that and squarespace being simple does not mean that you can't really customize much if you
go to image blocks for example you have so many options here you know you can just mess around
with alignment and width and just so many things to kind of customize so you can get a little more
let's say nuanced in particular in your um styling here but if you would like to keep it simple
uh as you can tell here we you can see the uh changes here uh but yeah if you
would like to keep it simple you can keep it simple but if you let's just say you wanna
maybe get a little bit more particular you are able to do that just customizing things generally
here customizing your website with squarespace is super easy and it really is as intuitive as
it gets and again there are many templates to kind of pick from if we just go where was it uh
templates templates templates there we go so let's go back so again yeah you don't have to
go with this let's say you have a restaurant um you can go with something that is uh kind of more
made for restaurants so you know you can just pick this or or this one or whatever it is that you're
trying to sell uh you do have templates that can just cater to that really so and all these
templates can really work for almost anything and you can tell with each of these templates
there's plenty of room for uh images so uh image blocks and you can make these blocks
again as i showed you can make them as big as you want or as little as you want but generally
you know it's kind of made in this really artsy way i guess very modern very easy on the eyes
and it's just one of the biggest selling points honestly uh when it comes to using squarespace
and with regards to features uh you have first of all again you have a great image or gallery
section here and there are so many pictures that you can pick from beautiful artistic pictures
landscapes whatever it is that you're looking for depending on what you're selling
obviously if you have let's say a menu if you have a food menu you want to use your own food and not
fake food so yeah at the end of the day it's up to you but if you if you're just let's say
starting a blog or something um then this gallery will definitely come in handy uh and speaking of
blogs obviously there are great uh blogging kind of uh tools here it's perfect for blogs honestly
squarespace is definitely the one you want to go with blogs here as you can tell with squarespace's
built-in blog page you can create blog posts and excerpts tag and categorize posts enable comments
push your posts to social media and more you can update your blog on the computer or through the
squarespace app on the phone so that's great too so you can just edit your blog on the go using
the squarespace application be it android or uh iphone you also have uh the ability to schedule
just set up online scheduling whether you're a therapist or a yoga teacher or whatever it is
and obviously you can create members only sections so only those members that let's say um pay the
membership they can get access exclusive access to certain features in your website you can create
podcasts it's perfect for podcasts as you can see here publish to apple podcasts and other podcast
services while your website can help listeners find archived episodes show notes and more
information about the podcast and there are plenty of guides by the way the information the amount of
faqs and information and video guides available on squarespace really that's all you need
to get you going you don't even have to contact their support in order to get you going but if you
do need support it is available there uh as you can see here just click the question mark right
here and you will be connected to the live chat support it is super easy and obviously you can
as i said you can edit your site on the go so let's say you're a restaurant owner and you um
you're you're not at home you're not near your laptop or pc or whatever it is and you want to
add a quick item to the menu or change the prices or whatever it is you can do that on the go super
easy and it will be updated you can also they have a great management donation management system
uh they have extensions plenty of extensions not too many but quite a few of them will make your
life easier i believe the total number here is 24 and you can select categories you know
depending on what you're looking for uh they got great email marketing system and especially when
let's say you sell something right for e-commerce and whatnot let's say once a client purchases
something you can have these automated emails that are beautiful and of course with e-commerce it's
definitely the best but with regards to e-commerce i mean yeah you can design it however you want
you can customize the emails that uh clients receive after they make a purchase and it's
perfect for small stores and businesses and of course this plays into squarespace's role of being
very user-friendly and it just makes things super simple by not requiring users to edit uh any code
um so yeah great stuff overall now let's get into the pricing and i like that squarespace is very
upfront about their pricing you know they're not trying to kind of do any underhanded ways of like
hey you know this is the price and then when you kind of get billed it turns out there are other
things that you're also being built for they're very upfront this is the monthly fee and this
is the annual fee of course because you're going to be paying upfront you will get the benefit of
first of all cheaper pricing second of all free custom domain you get all of that with all even
if you just go with the personal one and i know a lot of you guys that are starting a small business
will probably go with the personal one but the business one i mean yeah you could you could you
could manage with the personal one but depending on what you're looking for i mean as you can tell
if you go with the business one you're gonna get a whole lot more benefits and that could really
uh suit you very well depending obviously on your business and how big it is so that'll be it for
this video hopefully you guys learned a thing or two about squarespace if you guys are interested
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