Comparing Current Solution to SquareSpace and Identify Possibilities

[emecas]

Current website: www.unitedbychocolate.org
SquareSpace: https://www.squarespace.com/

To Do

• Check survey results available in Solicit advice from other small businesses in the Charlottesville area on the platforms they use for the websites and their recommendations. #17
• Create a provisional SquareSpace account to perform some quick experiments
• List finding and possibilities @christinagiancola
• Provided a Pros and Cons lists @nhrafiq @nithvijay

Resource

Squarespace vs WordPress — Which is Best?
https://www.stylefactoryproductions.com/blog/squarespace-vs-wordpress

[emecas]

@christinagiancola do you mind to share an updated about the findings you have mentioned in last meeting about this topic?

also, do you see any possibilities about mixing some of the possible experiments we could make here with the results obtained from #1 issue and #19 discussion ?

[nhrafiq]

Here are some qualities of SquareSpace I found from doing research a couple of weeks ago:

Pros

SquareSpace supports varying levels of no-code or fully self-coded solutions:

• Can add custom code and CSS (i.e. mixing no code with code)
• Can fully modify the site (i.e. only doing code) with the "SquareSpace Developer Platform" option, which is available for business or commerce plans
  • Under this solution, developers can access the website files using git or SFTP, which makes remote collaboration easier
• Can use a purely no-code solution, using style editor to edit the demo templates or start with a blank page and add content as desired

Cons

• There are a lot of plugins available on SquareSpace to extend a website's functionality, but the article I read did caution to use only plugins from trusted developers / third parties