Despite it's "Square" name, SquareSpace is anything but!  When we embarked on the adventure of starting the Social Method, we had a few options for creating a site and most of them were basically free as we really wanted to focus on a blog - Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad.  However, these choices only offer limited options in terms of customizing unless you can create your own Custom Style Sheet (CSS).  We're good, but we're not that good.  So, our options were to suffer with a standard design or pay someone to create one for us.  We've got lots of great contacts that could rock the creative on a CSS for the Social Method, but then we heard about SquareSpace.

So we headed on over to SquareSpace.com to check it out and saw this:

Squarespace Tour Video from Squarespace on Vimeo.

Well hello lovah!  We were intrigued and with free 14 day trial, there wasn't much to lose.  We signed up and began watching their great instructional videos about customizing your page.  Then we picked a starting theme and off we went!  It took some time and a lot of playing with options to get to where we wanted - in fact, we continue to tinker with it all the time. However, each day we discover more facets of the site we love - file sharing and storage capabilities, excellent integration with Google analytics.  The best part?  They have step-by-step instructions to do it all!

So, with SquareSpace, for a mere $30 per month and a little elbow grease, you get a brand appropriate, custom website that we think competes with those that are professionally developed for thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars.  Yeah, now that is definitely hip.