WordPress vs Squarespace

A little-known fact is that Squarespace, too, started off as a blogging platform (or a website builder with an emphasis on blogging, rather). E-commerce and other major features (such as podcasting, email marketing, online scheduling, and membership functionality) were launched years later. What originally separated Squarespace from WordPress, aside from it being a proprietary platform, was its apparent obsession with simplicity (more so than design early on). WordPress had taken a slightly different route of accepting several marketing/sales nuances along with a circulation of content as the standard of what a website should represent. Squarespace today is user-friendly, powerful (to a degree), extensible (to a degree), and still relatively affordable... arguably making it the most well-rounded choice for a growing number of business owners, marketers, and digital marketing agencies (to complement their target clientele of artistic/creative types). It strikes that seemingly near-perfect balance of form and function that so many people and brands search for when deciding on the best course of action for their website. And while Squarespace might have learned from WordPress, it continues to stay true to its roots.