 Hello everyone, this is Amit Don of AmitDon.com. On this channel, you'll find financial, travel and more videos just like the one you are watching right now. If you like what you see, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing. Today, I'll talk about building websites with two very different platforms, WordPress and Squarespace. The website you are looking at right now is amitdon.com, which I just built recently, not even a month ago. And this website was built on using Squarespace platform. Now, for those who have been following me for the last few years, you know that I have several websites and domains. And all other websites or most of my websites were made using WordPress platform. For example, my most popular website, this is one of the websites I hold and this is by for the most popular website. This was built about, I believe, seven or eight years ago, and this was built using platform WordPress. Now, there's no doubt that WordPress is the best platform out there building websites because it gives you tremendous flexibility. And basically, you can do anything with your website when you have WordPress. But all these flexibility and being the best comes with the price. If you're not familiar with programming, coding or other technical stuff, for example, FTP, MySQL databases or HTML, CSS, then you're going to have a hard time maintaining WordPress website. You need to have a programmer, or for those who have many websites, possibly more than one programmer, standby to do daily required maintenance or fixing all the time. And the one thing with WordPress websites is that they always break and then there are always hackers who are accessing the server which is hosting your websites. There are so many problems all the time and the quotes are breaking and you have to have programmers fixing them to keep your websites running. They have to be updated all the time. And also for that, you need to have a programmer or programmers standby doing all the work for you. Unless you know programming and all these quotes I just mentioned, it's a hassle and a lot of work to maintain and build websites made on WordPress platform. Now, I'll tell you this, that most of the big websites and approximately 30 to 40% websites run on the Internet. They're built on WordPress platform. So this has to be the best or one of the best platforms. But as I mentioned, being the best has its prices and you'd require programmers or high knowledge in programming or coding to keep the websites running. So for me, I have three or four websites running on WordPress right now. And for the past five, seven years, maintaining them and running them, it's been a hassle. I had to chase around programmers to fix them, to update them and when I had to change web hosting company from one company to another company, then I had to seek the help of programmers. So it's been a lot of hassle and there's always a lot of money involved doing all this work. For example, the website you're looking at right now, adonchannel.com, the form you're looking at, the design you're looking at, this is my actually own design. However, in order to come to this point, come to this design you're looking at, I'll just scroll down a little bit to show you the whole site. It took about three to five years' work to bring it to this point what you're looking at right now. So it looks very nice, very neat and clean. It has a friendly interface and lots of nice features and there's a slider right here. So it has everything but to come to this point, it took me about three years or more and actually I lost track of how many programmers worked on this from the scratch but I can remember at least three of them who worked on this website one after another to bring it to this point and the amount of money I spent on this site has been a lot of money. So for example, if I do a conservative estimate then I have spent about three to five thousand dollars just to get to this point what you're looking at right now, although it may not look that expensive but there are so many changes, so many changing of web hosting company because WordPress websites have to be hosted on a hosting company although WordPress itself, the software is free but you need to host it with someone and then they have their costs and if you change from one company to another company that's another cost. So all these cost me three thousand dollars, possibly more, I would say three to five thousand dollars and that's the final look you're looking at, final design, final features you're looking at right now. So it's been a lot of hassle and a lot of work, a lot of money running around after programmers. Tremendous headaches. So after doing this for many years, seven years I would say I got tired of it and I wanted to try something different. So this time instead of starting a new website, ameddon.com which is right here. So instead of going to WordPress, I wanted to try a very different platform which is Squarespace. Now the main difference between Squarespace and WordPress is that Squarespace does everything for you. So you don't need to worry about hosting, you don't need to worry about hiring programmers, you don't need to worry about MySQL databases, you don't need to worry about accessing FTP, changing files, updating websites, all those things. So everything is done. All you need to have a domain, custom domain, either you can buy the domain from Squarespace or if you have domain from other providers such as GoDaddy, then you can just connect your domain from GoDaddy to Squarespace which is very easy. So if you compare ameddon.com and here erunjournal.com, they look very similar or they look very modern websites with nice features and this one took five years to come to this point. Money spent three to five thousand dollars, possibly more. Lots of hassle, headaches and running around after programmers, frustrations, lots of issues. However, the website you're looking at ameddon.com, if I told you how long it took me to achieve this design you're not gonna believe me or you'd even laugh at me. So here it is, it took me only one weekend, so Friday night and Saturday night done. So I used a template, Squarespace has several templates, you can choose between templates and you can switch between templates which is very easy. So all I had to do, choose a template and edit these boxes or these features which are all done. You have to just drag and drop. So I'll just go through the website to show you. Let's scroll down here. Okay, so see here's my archive section, here's recent post, here's YouTube button or YouTube page. Here's my Instagram, here's my Google ad, my books, my banner, everything. So very modern looking website, very clean interface, user friendly, everything. But the surprising fact is that to achieve this looks and this design, it took me only two nights and money spent, not $3,000, not $2,000, not $1,000. I spent only the fees, annual fees, Squarespace charges to have an active account and when you pay annually, the cost is I believe $12 per month. So what you're looking here right now, it cost me $12 and this nice website, I built it over, not overnight, actually two nights by myself without any programmer, without anyone's help, just reading all the hill files and online videos, watching online videos, how to build website on Squarespace. So everything I did by myself and it took me two nights, $12 and this is the result. And here, my older website, addonjournal.com, high traffic website, age about seven years, possibly more. And in order to come to this looks or design, it took me five years running after many programmers, money spent three to five years and still spending. And anytime there's something breaks down and something I have to fix it here, I cannot do anything. I can do very minor changes. For example, I just know how to move these section from one place to another on top of each other. I know how to put this line here and I know how to change the code inside to change ads and stuff. But except that anything breaks, any issues, anything, I have to call a programmer and the way they charge, they would do just a small fixing and they charge you at least $50, which even may not happen. If you are lucky, then you'll find someone who will charge you $50 to fix something, could be $100. For very small work, probably wouldn't take even like, you know, five, ten minutes if you know how to do it. But because most of the people are, I do not know or do not have in-depth knowledge of programming CSS, FTP server, MySQL databases, all sort of stuff. So it's a lot of expensive and hassle to maintain and run a website on WordPress. So the reason I'm doing this video that definitely I'm not going to disagree that WordPress is the best platform out there because it gives you tremendous flexibility and basically you can do anything you want with your website. However, it comes with a price and costly, a lot of work, hassle, running after programmers, all sort of stuff. And Squarespace may not give you that many options, may not give you tremendous flexibility. However, there are points when you do not want that many options, when you do not want to be that much flexible, you want to stay within the limits Squarespace is giving you because that way if you break something or if you have limited options, then it's easier to maintain. It's easier to pick what you want. And then the other thing I didn't mention that with Squarespace, we have live support 24 hours, seven days via email, via chat, which would be only on the weekdays and via email is 24 hours every day. So anytime you're using, they have several templates. So anytime you're using their templates, you're not calling a programmer to break the codes to make you a custom WordPress, sorry, Squarespace website, then you have live support right there. You can email them, you can chat with them, anything breaks, they'll fix it right away. They'll tell you exactly what to do. For example, I was having a problem with this banner here. I displaced it a lot below and I wanted to put it up. I emailed them, I got an answer right away. I had another issue with something here, there was something showing up here, I didn't know how to remove that. I emailed them, they gave me an answer, I fixed it right away. So anytime, any problem, you have support, which is not, you're not paying additional money for that, it's all included in the plan. So basically, your web hosting company, your platform, all in one and that's Squarespace. So if you want to be hassle free, if you don't want to spend your time and money running after programmers fixing things, then I would suggest Squarespace. Although there may be limitations, you may not achieve lots of things like you could achieve with WordPress. However, that's what I want. I had everything. I have been a WordPress veteran for seven years and I have tried everything and I got tired of it. I got tired of running around the programmers, spending money, fixing everything. So now I'm trying a different platform and this is what I have, ameddon.com and this is with Squarespace and so forth. And the design you're looking at, it's all my creation, drag and drop and changing options, setting, etc., which comes with Squarespace. And I haven't finished adding lots of things here yet, but so far, I have showed this page to lots of my friends, my fans who know me and everyone was amazed that I can achieve this result in two nights with almost no cost. And here, it took me so many years and so much money to achieve this result. So this is just amazing platform with incredible support and it's just, you know, if you don't want to spend your time maintaining a website, fixing a website, or even a website, then Squarespace is what you should go with. Now, I'd like to mention that no one has paid me anything. All my articles, YouTube videos, they are not sponsored by anyone. So whatever I'm telling you, there's no money involved. So I'm just telling you based on my experience. For example, if you watch any of my breakout reviews on my YouTube channel or any other reviews on Adonis Journal or here, never there's any money exchange or never these are paid post or articles. So everything is genuine and honest opinions, unbiased opinions. And in terms of using Squarespace, so I'll tell you the same thing that I have not been paid by anyone to do this video. So this is just my own opinion, unbiased and honest opinion. Yes, if you want to achieve tremendous flexibility, lots of things, then definitely you should go with WordPress, but you have to have programmers, you have to spend money, it takes time. But if you're a programmer, if you're a coding, then you shouldn't bother with Squarespace, you can just go with WordPress. For example, the slider you're looking at right now, if you just refresh this page or just let's move on to another article and then you'll see the slider, it works for a few minutes, then it stops. For example, you will see that the slider starts here right now, so here. So this is a slider of my book, so it will just keep moving. So this feature, I wouldn't be able to achieve on here on Squarespace. For example, this is fixed, I made this by using their drag and drop option, so I wouldn't be able to transfer this or make the same thing on Squarespace. But I don't mind, you know, I'm tired of spending my time, money, and running after programmers, so I just wanted something hassle free. And in the future, I'm thinking of moving all the content from my other websites to amedan.com so I can have a free journey towards providing more content, better feedback and everything. For example, once I was in travel, or whenever I travel, I'm going to, let's say, Jamaica or Asia or other places. And it just bothers me that, oh, maybe my WordPress website is going to be down and who am I going to call right now because I'm not even home. So I don't want to have that type of headaches anymore, so that's why I decided to try a new platform, Squarespace, and so far I'm very happy with the result. All the people I know, everyone was amazed by the looks and everything, and it's so easy to use, and you're dealing with only one company. Possibly, too, if your domain is with GoDaddy or someone else, however, that's not a big deal because you don't have to deal with any hosting company, you don't have to deal with any plugins, you don't have to deal with CloudFair, you don't have to deal with other third-party companies for antivirus, and you don't have to deal with so many things. So all in one package, it's simple, easy to maintain, and it's already free. So that's my take on Squarespace. So I'll end this video right now. If you like what you see, please give me a thumbs up, and there will be more reviews like this, and keep an eye on my channel. That's all for now. Thank you.