Why we double up on Squarespace

Someone emailed me yesterday to ask why I have a site here and a site on Squarespace. Well, first of all, I’m 11, ok. 11 year olds don’t really have a rhyme or a reason. But if you must know, I like both WordPress and Squarespace for totally different reasons. WordPress is great because it clearly tells me where my visitors come from, and I think more peeps find me here through search engines like google and yahoo. That’s a good thing. I also think WordPress has some cool widgets. The challenge I have with WordPress – I tried setting up my own site using WordPress, and it was just too complicated for me. Remember, I’m a kid, and I’m not one of those boy geniuses who started their own internet company when they were like, 12. I fish, and I go to school. And then I fish some more. Maybe some day when I’m older, I’ll get better at this computer stuff but for right now, I like sites like WordPress and Squarespace for their simplicity. They are both easy for me to use, but in different ways.

Now, I host my main site on Squarespace because it was easier for me to understand how to register my own domain there, and then to put up lots of links and ads and use my amazon associates account and a bunch of other cool stuff. Plus, I like the layout features and the templates better. Again, just easier for me to use. Oh, and my site just looks cooler there. Like a real website, yanno.

I’ll still use WordPress, particularly so more people can find my stuff. I do like WordPress. I just like Squarespace better, for now. I’ll keep trying both and every now and then, I’ll give you updates of what I think of them side by side. You can check out the Squarespace side of my website here:

http://www.squarespace.com/?associateTag=sickfishing

And in the mean time, keep fishing, because first and foremost, that’s the most important!