Why we moved everything to squarespace

We here @ lost are a pretty open minded bunch, after doing numerous website builds here in our local region of Clare & Limerick. We started brainstorm on what worked and what didn't for our clients and for us.

Every time we built something on wordpress I just couldn't shake the feeling that I wished the client was on squarespace. With its sleek templates, automatic updates, tight security, great developers mode (which we use) and SEO friendly layout. Not to mention the super slick mobile responsive designs.

The pros are so compelling we couldn't ignore them @ Lost we don't like to have to charge clients for every small change they want

We consistently looked for solutions for this from giving over free time, to helping clients navigate their CMS and hosting. Squarespace is the perfect solution as it allows clients to make those small text, image, formatting changes themselves with relative ease allowing them to save money.

At a recent conference I heard a developer tell an audience member that his squarespace site wasn't a good idea as the SEO was an issue, well that was just wasn't true as the SEO gurus at Moz.com have congratulated sqaurespace and its SEO functionality but like any SEO you need to invest time & money into it.

I think a few developers are afraid if squarespace and others take off they won't be needed anymore, instead I feel they should see themselves as designers not just builders.

Some of the cons are the cost it runs around €110 per year basic hosting & domain (plus €5 per months to add email @ own domain) and a little more for ecommerce though all payments are through stripe our Local Limerick success story. If you take wordpress its constant security issues, needs to be updates, broken links, plug-ins crashing, your hosting & domain the price doesn't differ all that much.

Also it needs a little code help at times to help it do exactly what you want but that's the fun of  web design.

We @ Lost will no longer be doing any builds unless they are with squarespace, we can recommend some super talented developers to those who need a different solution.

In honour of our new direction we are offering the next 10 clients who move to squarespace with us the offer of a brochure website for the super discounted price of just €795 for the build, design and first years, hosting and own .com domain.

As an end note we are also offering any client who wants complete control over their webpage after the initial build the full ownership of everything to do with their own webpage. This seems like a given to us here @Lost but we hear a lot of stories of people not owning their own webpage after the final build & payment and that just seems unfair to us.

Kindly your Team @ Lost