Why people move off Squarespace
Squarespace is a good way to start a website. Where it starts to pinch is later, once the site exists and mostly needs keeping up to date. Every change means logging in, finding the right page, and editing blocks by hand, and each edit usually goes straight to your live site.
Speed is the other common reason. Squarespace loads its own platform code on every page, which is convenient for them and heavy for your visitors, especially on phones.
What changes when you move
We rebuild your site page for page, with the same design, the same words and photos, and the same page addresses, and connect your domain. Images are resized and compressed, and fonts are served from our network, so pages load much faster.
From then on, you change the site by describing what you want: “Add our summer hours to the contact page”, or “Make a page for the new workshop, like the others”. You see the change on a draft in seconds, and publish when you’re happy.
What stays the same
Your domain, your page addresses, and your design. People with bookmarks, and links from other sites, keep working. If a page address has to change, it gets a redirect.