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Building a Site Using SquareSpace

Building websites with squarespace

SquareSpace is a company which allows you to use their software to build a website simply using drag and drop functionality. It’s simple to build great looking websites with SquareSpace as well as adding e-commerce functionality to your site . It’s one of the more popular CMS (Content Management Systems) available and many major companies and designers are now using SquareSpace to build and maintain websites.

ADBEYO Web Design Services can set up your SquareSpace account for you, build your site, and when we’re finished, give you a lesson on how to update and make changes to your site.

SquareSpace sites are hosted on the SquareSpace servers and you’ll need to pay SquareSpace a monthly fee to keep hosting your website.

So what are some of the advantages of ADBEYO Web Design Services building my website with SquareSpace?

  • You’ll have a great looking website that you can update and edit easily on your own.
  • SquareSpace has a great range of e-commerce options and other online business applications which are really easy to install and update.
  • SquareSpace offer technical support as part of their subscription service.
  • It’s really easy to make significant changes to your website if you feel you want to freshen things up a bit.

What are some of the disadvantages

  • Cost. SquareSpace charge monthly to allow you to build your site and have it hosted online. This would be an additional cost on top of any work an external design agency (like Adbeyo Web Design Services) would be charge.
  • No business emails included in their price. You need to pay extra to get a business email associated with your website name.

Why Don’t I Just Build the Site Myself Using SquareSpace?

Great question. If you’ve got the time and a desire to learn, we say go for it. It’s not difficult to build a website with SquareSpace and if you have the time and interest, you can build a great website in a week or so.

For more information, here’s a link to SquareSpace’s homepage and also their prices.

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Building a Site Using WordPress

Building a site with Wordpress

WordPress is a free Content Management System. You can use WordPress to create and update websites, using a range of free or paid-for templates which have different styles and content. Word Press is very popular around the world, and allows designers to create beautiful websites without any coding knowledge. There are a huge range of free and paid for add-ons which will provide additional functionality to any website you own.

WordPress is really popular, and according to Wiki, used to create more than 60 million websites. As such, there is a lot of online support and products for people who build sites with WordPress. So what are some of the advantages of ADBEYO web design building my website with WordPress?

The completed website will still be stored on ADBEYO web design’s web-server which is located on a computer owned by a hosting company, but registered under ADBEYO’s account. This reduces any hosting costs that you would otherwise be likely to pay.

  • You can update your website by logging into the WordPress Content Management System with no knowledge of programming or scripting required.
  • There are lots of WordPress add-ons allowing you to add new functionality to your website.
  • WordPress is free. You don’t have to pay any monthly fees to use WordPress.
  • There are a lot of e-commerce options for WordPress, which allow you to create and run your own online store for free.

When ADBEYO web design services builds a site with WordPress, we download the WordPress files onto the client’s website space and then use a WordPress template to build the site.

So what are some of the disadvantages…

  • The ADBEYO set up cost for WordPress sites is higher than other options.
  • The WordPress Content Management System can seem quite tricky at first to get used to. Although you don’t need coding experience, it takes a bit of time to get comfortable building and updating sites using WordPress.
  • We don’t build WordPress sites as part of our monthly pay as you go web design service.
  • Making small changes on WordPress using built in templates can be a lot of hassle and you can be restricted by the templates you choose on how you like your site to loo.

WordPress is a good option for small business owners who don’t want to learn too much about website building and hosting but do want to be in control of their website and be able to make changes and updates without having to pay a monthly subscription cost to use the service.

For more information about WordPress see this link. Or watch the YouTube Video below.

So in summary, if you like the idea of building your own website, without any coding and relatively low costs, WordPress may be the solution for you.

Good luck