Creating That Eye Catching Photography Site With Squarespace

Squarespace is a great site building tools for those who love to produce high-quality images and need an equally high-quality website to go along with it.

Despite being extremely sleek, professional, fully integrated with social media and easy-to-use site builder without all the pop-up ads, Squarespace is relatively affordable with a starting point at $12 month-to-month plan that includes a free custom domain (.com, .net, .org, etc).

What’s even better is that if you have no experience with building a site, you can easily use Squarespace’s tools to create, design and manage your blog with little effort.

It’s so easy to do, in fact, it makes someone without a camera wish they were a photographer.

It’s Not Just for Photography

While Squarespace is extremely visual and has hundreds of templates built for stunning images, there are also many templates for business, illustration and blogging in addition to photography.

Models, fashionistas, small businesses and even the craft blogger can find Squarespace’s templates and tools very useful.

Read the full Squarespace review to go over all pricing and all the features.

Low Price Packaging

Squarespace offers two affordable packages. The lower priced package is only $8 per month when paid annually, or you can choose to pay $12 month-to-month.

This plan includes 20 pages, galleries and blogs, as well as 500 GB of bandwidth, 2 GB of storage, custom domain and 24/7 support.

The higher priced plan is $18 per month when paid annually or $26 month-to-month and includes unlimited pages, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage, unlimited contributors, custom domain, advanced form builder, Google apps and Mail chimp sync, Facebook integration and 24/7 support.

All plans include fully loaded cloud hosting through Squarespace to make it even easier to store everything in one place, anywhere you need to access.

Using the Tools

The site building tools for Squarespace are truly extraordinary.

Not only can you drag and drop images right from your desktop to a folder that hosts them on your site, you can use simple tools to drag elements on pages around, rearranging photos and text easily.

In addition, all templates are responsive web design, meaning that your website looks beautiful on your desktop browser as well as your iPhone or Android device.

In addition, the administrative panel allows you to easily access your content wherever you are, whenever you need, so you can change your blog at your whim and rearrange photos into any kind of spread.

Photos are re-sized automatically into all different sizes by Squarespace, making it easy to create dynamic page layouts.

One Con

There is one drawback that some may find inconvenient. Squarespace currently does not offer any email accounts.

However, you can use their tools to easily link Google apps and receive emails to your site.

In addition, Squarespace is hosted solely online as a web service. You don’t have to download any tools.

However, those looking for something to store on their computers may be disappointed.

All in all, Squarespace delivers a wonderful, new age way to design beautiful, dynamic websites and for multiple purposes with low prices. It’s one of the best new site developers on the web.

If you have a Photography Website Builder you use and love it, drop me a line and let me know.

I love new websites. 

Also, if you have any tips on Squarespace drop a line in the comments below to share with the community.

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