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This website has been hosted by Squarespace since January of '05. In a former incarnation of my professional life, my job had many webmaster / online maintenance duties. In fact I'd dabbled in "putting stuff online" for years. And so when I 
discovered that ordinary people (read: non techies) could create and maintain perfectly beautiful sites without the need for expensive software, hours of training, or a background in programming - I was blown away. These sites were much further along than any I had personally ever developed without the help of this content management system. And so I told everybody who would listen to me about Squarespace. Still do!
Then I discovered that although the Squarespace training resources are remarkable and thorough and getting better all the time, some people still don't want to be bothered to learn how to build sites on this platform. Many of them prefer to have someone else customize the Squarespace templates for them, then just show them how to make simple updates. They want more hand-holding than those who resonate to online learning.
So I started helping other people do this.
discovered that ordinary people (read: non techies) could create and maintain perfectly beautiful sites without the need for expensive software, hours of training, or a background in programming - I was blown away. These sites were much further along than any I had personally ever developed without the help of this content management system. And so I told everybody who would listen to me about Squarespace. Still do!Then I discovered that although the Squarespace training resources are remarkable and thorough and getting better all the time, some people still don't want to be bothered to learn how to build sites on this platform. Many of them prefer to have someone else customize the Squarespace templates for them, then just show them how to make simple updates. They want more hand-holding than those who resonate to online learning.
So I started helping other people do this.
What does that mean? I'm a sort of unlikely web designer - half artist, half geek - with a pretty good grasp of and ever-expanding experience into - what it takes to get a nice site up and running, who's also creative and patient and enthusiastic... who likes collaborating with other people. Especially on topics about which they're passionate. Particularly when it's on projects like the ones I've seen evolve through the Squarespace platform. A platform that lets us blog, post photo galleries, Amazon lists, discussion boards, standard web pages...etc., without having to buy web development software! Which is only the tip of the iceberg...
Getting to help other people learn how to use this tool to market their own projects, as I do my jewelry - one of my other passions besides Squarespace sites - is such a great way to spend my time. Plus? Every time I help someone build a new site using this platform, I learn something new that I can use to make my own site better. Good stuff, no?