Create Your Own Space

Today, we’re proud to unveil a new look for our front site, as well as our first major branding initiative, dubbed “Create Your Own Space”.

Our new campaign puts the spotlight on our talented customers, who work in different creative industries spanning from architecture and e-commerce to publishing. We firmly believe that Squarespace’s strength lies in the flexibility of the platform and the fact that no matter what your background or livelihood, you can use the platform to express your ideas, promote your projects, or sell your products. The main video spot is complemented by five customer vignettes that showcase how Squarespace helps bring their ideas to life.

We hope that the videos can serve as inspiration for those of you that are currently using Squarespace or considering it for your next venture. Take a look at www.squarespace.com.

New Feature Roundup: New Account Switcher, Form Lightbox, and RSS Block

We’re constantly working to bring new features and improvements to Squarespace. We wanted to take a second to point out a few recent updates that we think you’ll like:

• New Account Switcher – For users who manage or contribute to multiple Squarespace websites, we’ve made it simple to navigate between sites. Click on the Squarespace logo on the bottom left corner in your Website Manager. You can also start a new website directly from this menu, or remove inactive websites.

• Form Builder Lightbox – You can now choose to open your contact form in a lightbox, rather than embedding it in the page. This means that very long or complex forms can appear to your visitors as a simple button, reducing clutter. From the settings menu of your Form Block, click on “Advanced”, then select “Enable Lightbox Mode.”

• RSS Block – Make it easy for visitors to add your feed to their newsreader. Adding an RSS block creates a subscribe button that you can add anywhere on your Squarespace website.

As always, send us your questions and comments @squarespace via Twitter. Thanks for being a part of Squarespace!

Squarespace x Google Street View

Last month, we invited a photographer into our office to shoot an inside Google Street View of Squarespace HQ, which is located in Manhattan’s vibrant Soho neighborhood. Through these photos, anyone can get an insider’s look into what we call home during the week.

We think our office is a great embodiment of what Squarespace stands for – minimal, functional, and even fun. Take a look and see if you can spot all the Easter eggs hidden inside! From the street view link, press the double arrow forward to enter the building and look around.

Project Spotlight: Bottega Veneta x Nancy Lorenz

We’d like to highlight a great example on Squarespace today: a website for the collaboration between Italian fashion house Bottega Veneta and renowned artist Nancy Lorenz. As a platform that supports creativity and artistic expression, we were thrilled that Bottega Veneta chose Squarespace to showcase Skies and Beyond, the third collection by Nancy Lorenz for Bottega Veneta.

The set of 25 one-of-a-kind leather and suede boxes follows two earlier collaborations between the brand and artist: “Lunar Landscapes” collection of 2003, and the "Botanical" collection of 2002. An artist whose work regularly features in the Chahan galerie in Paris and the Morgan Lehman gallery in New York, Nancy Lorenz creates her pieces using luxurious materials such as mother-of-pearl inlay, lacquer, and gold leaf. The boxes are unique, singular pieces of art that can also be used to store letters, photos, jewelry—the small treasures you want close at hand. The Skies and Beyond collection was exhibited at the Salone del Mobile International Furniture and Design Fair in Milan in April, and can now be admired on http://skiesandbeyond.bottegaveneta.com/ as well as in Bottega Veneta boutiques around the world.

The Skies and Beyond website was built using Momentum, which is a perfect choice for interactive brochures, catalogs, and full-bleed photography portfolios.

Squarespace Ireland: Announcing Our First International Office

After nine years in business, we’re proud to announce that we’ll be setting up our first international office in the great city of Dublin, Ireland, later this summer.

With more and more members joining us from different locations all over the world, we wanted to ensure that we’re providing the best possible customer care we can. The Squarespace operation in central Dublin will serve Squarespace customers around the globe and will initially focus on a variety of customer care roles. The initiative is supported by the Irish National Department of Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation through IDA Ireland, the government agency responsible for the attraction and development of foreign investment in Ireland.

We’re looking forward to being closer to our customers in Europe and beyond as we continue our internationalization efforts.

Interested in joining the Squarespace Team in Dublin? Check out http://www.squarespace.com/career-openings.