A Brief History Lesson

A question that comes up with limited frequency is "how did you set up your blog?" and "what service do you use?" and "what should I do?" So I thought it would be fun to talk about how the blog came to be for a bit. It should be a fun history lesson at least.

Pictured: Not the interface I use, but a stock image of something similar. They really are all basically the same.

I also would be remiss to not point out that I am constantly bombarded with ads for Wix and Squarespace and I thought it would be funny to point out that these ads did not sway my decision in the slightest.

So, The Dewy Blog runs on Wix. Not because I thought they were better, but because a friend of mine professionally designs websites on Wix (shoutout to Boxer Media Services) and I didn't trust my own abilities to set up a new site. So I set up the original site (which just had the homepage, blog, and about pages) and hired my friend to give it a professional lookover. They even took the first pass at my Way Over the Top, Overkill, and Probably Unnecessary Disclaimer which has largely remained unchanged.

As this progressed, I got more and more comfortable with the Wix ecosystem, slowly adding all the pages you see today (and some that I've scrubbed, like the calendar that I abandoned in favor of The Dewyletter). My friend still does the occasional once over to ensure that the site looks as good as it can. So, when it came time to set up a website for our favorite fictional law firm, I also did that on Wix.

Fast-forward to more recent times and it was time for me to set up the site for Mad Woman Publishing. I originally planned to do the same thing I had done for NBW but one of the partners had a Squarespace account and wanted to be a contributor through there. So I created an account and made the website you can see today there.

But what do I recommend? Well, if I have to pick between the two for future sites, I'll probably pick Squarespace. It's the simpler editor and I don't really need the depth that Wix offers.

But, quite frankly, a lot of these website editors are the same in so many ways. If you're new to creating websites, it's pretty easy to pick any of these up if you have some design experience. So it doesn't really matter.