Nikola vs Squarespace

Nikola posts may be written in a variety of formats. You can write posts in HTML, with all the expressive power of HTML and CSS, and still have the benefits of a site-wide theme and navigation structure.

Nikloa sites are static files, and thus may be hosted on any web server that allows you to upload your own files. This lets you use simple and inexpensive hosting providers and still have a reliable site.

You have better choices for markup than raw HTML.

Squarespace's WYSIWYG tools are intuitive and support drag & drop functionality allowing you to change existing layout or add an article quickly.

Squarespace templates offer an optimal viewing experience depending on the width of the browser window so they will work and look great both on desktop and mobile devices.

Squarspace allows complete creative control over how you want your website to look and function. It can be a complete website.

Squarspace offers detailed metrics, that can also easily be accessed from your phone via an iOS app.

Squarespace has a bunch of small nice-to-haves that make it a pleasure to use, like automatically getting a screengrab when adding a video so that the site doesn't load the whole video before the user has clicked on it, or a sign-up process that's sane among other things.

Squarespace offers a great selection of highly polished templates across a variety of categories and styles.

Squarespace promises to answer all question within an hour.