Oh, and I guess I migrated the domain to Google Domains as well. Not too shabby for an afternoon!
For the past year or more I was on Adobe’s MyPortfolio. It’s nice, but limited. There was no blogging platform, so to keep it free, I tied in a blogspot blog, but even with that the customization and features seemed a bit limited. After enough sitting with a split platform and seeing enough advertisements for SquareSpace, I figured I’d give it a try. It’s been just past the 14 days and I’ve decided to plop down the cash for a year.
The overall interface is very easy to use and configure, the blogging platform seems fairly full featured, and all of the integrations are great. The option alone to import everything from my blogspot site into SquareSpace without issue blew my mind. I may still give NameCheap’s new EasyWP a go, but I’m really after an all in one website/blogging platform that looks nice and is easy to put together. SquareSpace hits those marks.
Bonus points to their integration with Google Domains - I was able to setup the DNS entries without touching anything - A quick login to my Google account through SquareSpace’s interface was really all it took. I’ve yet to setup GSuite, but 5 dollars a month for a domain email account would be pretty swell. For now, I’ll deal with the forwarding options available to me through them.