21 Questions and Answers about Squarespace (FAQ)

Choosing the right publishing tool is important if you want your website to be successful. There are many to choose from, but if you're looking for a system that's easy to work with, reliable and safe - Squarespace is a good option.

Here we answer questions about Squarespace:

  • Squarespace is an all-in-one content management system, or CMS. It allows you to create websites, manage content remotely, register domains, sell products, create newsletters and much more.

  • It depends! Everyone has unique needs for their websites, but we find that Squarespace works very well for both small and large businesses. As a Squarespace expert, we code and create the websites so that they are adapted to the individual company's needs and complexity.

  • Feel free to read a blog post we made about the differences between Squarespace and WordPress.

  • Yes, you can! Online store is an integrated part of Squarespace, and is simple and user-friendly. Support for credit cards, PayPal, ApplePay and Klarna, but not support for Vipps. Read more about Squarespace online store

  • Yes, this is possible, but there can often be problems with the format of images and other challenges can arise. We recommend building websites from scratch, rather than importing from Wordpress.

  • Yes, absolutely! Squarespace websites are stored on their own robust infrastructure. They have full control over every part of the product. There are no third-party plugins running on their servers. Downtime is low and you can at any time follow the status on this page.

  • No platform can give a 100% guarantee of uptime, but Squarespace has a large capacity on its servers that allows it to handle large fluctuations - and popular websites without any problems. For example, Squarespace itself is advertising in the final of the biggest advertising event in the world - the Super Bowl in American football - and they have had no problem handling the traffic that comes as a result.

  • It depends on the quality of the website you create!
    Squarespace has elements built into templates that make it easy to score well on search engines. Page description, page titles, custom URL's, search engine friendly formatting and other important SEO elements are all easily accessible to Squarespace users. We design websites to ensure high search engine rankings, and always use best practices when creating new websites. This is easy and cheap in Squarespace as important features are already built in and you don't need expensive plug-ins.

  • Yes! Squarespace has its own analytics tool called Squarespace Analytics where you can access traffic patterns, referral sources, and other key figures. We also install Google Analytics to the website through built-in integration to provide more detailed analysis.

  • Yes, Squarespace has its own email campaign platform called Squarespace Email Campaigns. It's easy to get started, but most importantly, it's rational to use, as it's only a few keystrokes to send out blog posts as newsletters.

  • Yes! 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If you need support, Squarespace can give you assistance when we can't. We at Gasta also offer support agreements, so they can be sure to get help for challenges that may arise.

  • Yes, we do. Squarespace is a very user-friendly tool that makes it easy for companies to update content according to their own needs, and the training will give you a good understanding of how to change or insert new content.

  • It's easy! Just send us an email at post@gasta.no or call us on 57627770. Then we have a proven and good process that will give you good and selling websites.

  • It depends on the complexity of the website and its availability. Usually it takes 1 week from the time we receive the material or finish creating a graphic profile until the website is ready. This includes the work of optimizing the website for SEO.

  • We take care of it. We change the "routing"/DNS on the domain, and the website is launched! You can also have multiple domains linked to the website, but one domain must be the main domain.

  • Yes. Your website content will automatically adapt to mobile and tablet devices. When you work with content in Squarespace, you can check with the click of a button whether the page you are creating is mobile-friendly and you can adjust the mobile version separately from the desktop version.

  • No, absolutely not. The big advantage of Squarespace is that you don't have to. Squarespace is an all-in-one system where all "plugins", or blocks, as Squarespace calls them, are available at the touch of a button. This means that you don't have to deal with different suppliers of plugins. Everything is controlled by Squarespace, which makes it easy for you as a user.

  • Yes, absolutely. We have very good experience using Weglot, which is the new AI-based tool for automatic translation. You can easily go in and change words in Weglot. Read more about Weglot.

  • Squarespace does not disclose this figure, but we expect the number to be between 4 and 5 million websites based on Squarespace on a global basis. Gasta has created just over 600 of them :-). Squarespace had revenues of NOK 7.5 billion in 2021 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

  • All modern publishing tools require you to pay a license fee. Most of our customers have a Business license and the prices can be found on Squarespace's price list. We at Gasta also offer a support agreement and if you choose it, we pay the license to Squarespace and invoice you for the license and support once a year. Neat and simple!

  • Squarespace 7.1 has full support for Norwegian and all Scandinavian languages in settings and standard texts (e.g. form fields, online store). But currently the admin interface is in English, but Norwegian is on the “roadmap” at Squarespace. English admin has proven not to be a problem, as you work very directly on the website without having to deal with many menu options. And if you MUST have admin in Norwegian, all you have to do is set it up in your browser!

More questions? Get in touch!