Layers vs Squarespace

Layers is an open source website builder. The source code is freely available on GitHub.

While designing a whole website without coding is possible with layers, for more advanced users who want to inject custom CSS to their website, it's possible to do so through a plugin called DevKit.

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.