Congrats and good luck! I too have recently taken on the role of a self employed creative and am doing my best to settle in to new routines and get all my business "infrastructure" together as well.
SteempressWordpress unfortunately! So it looks like I'll probably go with Squarespace instead even though it won't allow me to integrate with Hive as fully as I'd like. does still exist but has been rebranded to @exxp, so you'll want to look for it that way. I love that tool but I was just working on getting my own site up over the past couple days and I just have grown to hate
Ahh! Thank you! 😊 And I wish you luck in your own self-employed adventure! 😃
I'm glad to hear that the Wordpress plugin still exists -- I remember using it a couple years back when I had my personal website active and I really liked the integration.
What problems have you found with Wordpress?
I'm not exactly as website-savvy as I'd like to be. I used to dabble in HTML back in the late 90s/early 2000s, but things got a lot more complicated with CSS and whatnot and I found the "dumbing down" WYSIWYG of Wordpress such a relief. How does Squarespace compare?
Squarespace is more or less a further dumbed down Wordpress... and that brings it right about to my web design skill level! 😅 Wordpress definitely gives me all the plugins and flexibility to do just about anything... but I just find that's added way too much time and complexity for me. There's just neverending updates, plugins breaking, etc. I think if you keep it super simple it's fine, but I just can't leave well enough alone! Squarespace seems to do a nice job integrating analytics, SEO, email marketing, online shop options (because WooCommerce just adds another layer of insanity for me on top of WordPress!) and it is convenient for me since I also do some conventions and have already processed physical payments with a Square card reader I can use the same account, link up my physical/online inventory, etc.
Bear in mind I'm just in the trial phase and haven't even published my Squarespace site yet... but in a couple hours of dabbling around I was pretty happy with the functionality. They do offer a 14 day trial where you can pretty much log in and create a whole site and then just pick a plan and input your payment info if you want to actually publish it.
Ahh, all of that is good to know! I haven't even attempted to dabble in anything overly-complicated on Wordpress. The most I have done includes adding a couple of widgets and cheering at myself because the most basic things worked. 😅
I'll need to get a handle on the commerce aspects this time around too, which is terrifying...
I'll have to keep SquareSpace in mind if things get a bit too... headachey. 😬
Good luck with all your new endeavors! Love the book "Excuses Be Gone!"