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Harborlight or Squarespace

Squarespace makes the best looking templates in the business. If how the site looks is the thing you care about most, and you have the time to sit with it, it is hard to beat.

The catch is the same as every builder. A template is a starting point, and somebody has to keep it true after launch.

Choose Squarespace if

Design is the part you care about and you want to make those calls yourself.
You have a look in mind and the patience to build it.
You are comfortable in an editor and will still be comfortable in it next year.
Your business changes slowly.

Choose us if

You want the site written around the questions your customers actually ask, not only laid out well.
You would rather describe a change than make one.
Your season turns over and the site has to turn over with it.
You want your hours, prices and menu in text a search engine and an assistant can read, without doing that work yourself.

Side by side

	Squarespace	Harborlight
The look	A template you choose and adjust.	Designed for your business alone. No templates, no themes.
The words	Yours to write.	Drafted from research about you, then changed until you like them.
Seeing it first	You build it, then you see it.	It is finished before you pay, and you can walk away.
Keeping it current	Your job.	Ours, for as long as you are with us.
Being readable by AI	Depends what you put in text and what you leave in pictures.	Built into every page, and we publish a file written for assistants.

The bottom line

If you want to design it yourself and you will enjoy doing it, Squarespace is a fine place to do that. Come to us when you want the result without the project.

Questions people ask

Will my site look like a template?

No, because we do not use them. Every site here is designed for one business, so it looks like your business rather than like a theme anybody can buy. If there is a particular look you want, say so at the start and it gets built that way.

Is Squarespace good for a restaurant?

It can be, with one warning worth knowing. Restaurants tend to upload the menu as a picture or a PDF because that is what the printer sent, and neither Google nor an assistant can read the words inside one. That is a habit rather than a platform problem, and it will sink a site on any builder.

Also worth reading: Harborlight or Wix, Harborlight or GoDaddy and Harborlight or hiring a web designer.

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