Wordpress or Squarespace?
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- nylon
OK so I have spent the last 3 months designing and building a website in Adobe Muse and they have fucked me. I hear you laugh already.
I am going to ask a developer to redo it for me.
Should I get them to do it in Wordpress or Squarespace?
Any advice much appreciated
Thanks
- detritus0
Squarespace you don't need a developer for, just a bit of time set aside to sit there and swear at the shitty interface.
SS is also shit for image linking, breaking the web as it does. Perhaps you don't care.
Wordpress, as much as it irks me, is comprehensive and has oodles of options and support and.. isn't necessarily some overpriced subscription pice of shit, like squarespace.
if you just want a generic site with no frills or complications, go SS
- Site is already done. Just need someone to build it for me :(nylon
- Oh, then Wordpress, unless your design closely matches an already existing SS template.detritus
- ^garbage
- You can completely customise SS tooset
- I for one much prefer the SS interface, and once it's built it's far easier for non techy people to go in and update.set
- hotroddy0
Clients keep showing me sqaurespace sites to 'model' after. For portfolios and simple business websites - SqSp seem to have 'slicker' templates.. But if you are doing a lot customizing I think I would go w wordpress.
I have my own questions about squarespace:
1. Is it fully customizable? ie. write your own server side code
2. If so, How do you get access to the raw code?
3. Lastly, what language is it in? Is it hard to learn? (ie. online resources, etc)
- nylon0
The site we have designed is very templateable...
Home Page
About us
Portfolio - same 20 pages for work
ContactJust so pissed off that I have spent FOREVER building the site in Muse and it fucked me at the last hurdle
:(
- fadein110
2 completely different animals.
- formed0
You can pretty much make WP look and do anything you want. It's pretty nice.
There are decent templates, too, that you can work with. Just depends on how much customization you need (or have budget for).
Finding a good WP developer is another thing, though. There are a billion people that will say they are developers but can't build shit.
- fadein112
People need to stop thinking about Wordpress and Squarespace being similar systems. Squarespace is a hosted service. Wordpress you have full control.
Wordpress can look like any Squarespace theme if you know what you are doing.
Wordpress sites often look alike because devs/clients are lazy and cheap and buy readymade themes which 90% all follow the same format.
Its v.quick to learn enough to make Wordpress do what you need to do - if you know HTML and CSS and a little PHP.
- nylon0
'if'
Very small word with a very large meaning :(
- estetic0
Craft!
With only one section needing a 'channel' (portfolio) you can get by with the free version.
or wordpress
- Is there any video tutorials for craft? Cheersnumero1
- mijingo.com has a paid course
some free stuff:
https://straightupcr…estetic
- PonyBoy0
Has anyone worked w/SS's 'Developer Base'? I guess it's basically an offshoot of JSON (called JSON template)... I'm just getting into it but am finding it to be a little confusing w/out actually implementing it / creating an account and registering as a 'developer' and digging in deeper than just reading their overview / docs.
I'm battling w/some ridiculous WP bugs stemming from a theme 'we' chose to expand... I'm being pushed by parts of the team to move to Square for no other reason than their competitor uses it so they have a hard-on for it themselves. :/
Anyway... JSON-based dev... 'Squarespace Developer Base'... anyone get into this yet? Thoughts? Opinions?
- http://base-template…PonyBoy
- 2 completely different animals.fadein11
- I'm thinking of bailing from WP at the client's request... so...ignore that mentioned 'animal'... ... thoughts on SS's Dev Base, fade? have you dug into much?PonyBoy
- sorry nope - I answered the thread question - not much help.fadein11
- ha - just seen my comment below from months ago... my memory.fadein11
- haha... k... (thanks for being useless!!)
:D <3PonyBoy - I was that.fadein11