ou're a savvy business person and you know the importance of retaining customers. That's why you have a compelling website that keeps people browsing for whole minutes.

Are you seeing lots of page visits in your analytics but no one is calling? Maybe someone referred a friend to your business and they never got back to you. In the world of business you have seven seconds to make a first impression. With your website, you have even less time than that.

One of the main concerns I've heard from clients and others thinking about using Squarespace is that they don't want their website to look and act like everyone else's site and look like a template.

I first became interested in doing this when I saw it on the Squarespace circle website. Then recently a client I'm trying to get showed me the Shawn Mendez website because he was utterly fascinated with the angles and the parallax over the footer. I wanted to find a way to simulate this look in a different way, as to not be total copycat. 

"Squarespace sucks for SEO." I've heard this almost enough times to believe it, but the one thing I believe for sure is that the people who say that have never used Squarespace before in their lives and just like to start arguments on forums.

I often find myself defending Squarespace to so-called "real" web designers. I don't know what that even means—but it's rude. Squarespace is all I've ever known with respect to web design.

Why do I need a mobile friendly website? First of all, that's not something you should ask, you should just know—and if you don't know, you should be ashamed not to know and pretend to know. This blog post is inspired by this interesting article from Google.

Coming from someone who sells web design services, one could argue that my answer might be a little bit biased. I build websites for small businesses, start-ups, musicians, etc., so why would I tell you to go build your own website?