When you first decide to build a site in Squarespace, you choose its type from these three options.

There are only 26 site templates, but most of them are very good-looking.

You're a little bit left at sea when you start editing your Squarespace, unlike other site builders, which include a toolbar full of page elements to add to your site.

You can only enter page elements at these teardrop-shaped markers.

You can add all the usual site elements after clicking on a content block marker.

Galleries, like everything else in Squarespace, are well designed.

You get the full set of Aviary online photo editing tools for your Squarespace site.

Here's where you add pages to your site. You get a good choice of page types.

Squarespace automatically creates a well-designed mobile view for your site.

Blog posts can contain any elements standard webpages can.

If you have multiple sites, here's how you get to them.

Squarespace has rich ecommerce tools.

Squarespace offers generous site traffic reporting even to entry-level accounts.