A. Casalena | Comments Off Squarespace 6
Today, I am proud to announce the first wave of public beta invites to Squarespace 6.
Squarespace 6 is more than an evolution — it is a completely new way of managing content. Built from the ground up with the knowledge gained from seven years of creating content management systems, Squarespace 6 is the result of more than a year and a half of incredible work by our team. We have created an environment where you can rapidly create a beautiful website in a matter of minutes, managed from an interface that is like nothing else on the web.
We have spent our time optimizing the core parts of the Squarespace 6 system: blogs, galleries, the page builder, and widgets (now called blocks). The beta is initially launching with a set of portfolio templates. Portfolio templates have incredibly diverse presentation styles, and represented an excellent initial challenge for our team. The platform, of course, doesn't end there.
The Squarespace 6 beta will start with Squarespace friends and family. We will be releasing invitations daily. If you build websites for clients, apply for our developer program here, with the subject "Squarespace 6 Developer", which has been underway for months.
We are incredibly excited to share our hard work with you. We've attempted to anticipate many of your questions in our Squarespace 6 FAQ. Please note that this platform is a beginning for Squarespace — it gives us the ability to create templates with unprecedented flexibility and iterate on our product many times faster than with our previous version. On behalf of our entire team, thank you for your ongoing support. We are thrilled to share Squarespace 6 with you!
Photography in the video by Rhys Logan
Reader Comments (124)
Congratulations Squarespace! This is more-exciting than Christmas.
Awesome!
Amazing work guys. Best web innovation in a long time.
I love you. Please give me an invite :)
I've been looking forward to this for quite a while!
GAME CHANGER
Awesome, I can't wait to try out V6!
I am dying RIGHT NOW with excitement!
Cool! good news and congratulations! I look forward to try the v6.
Amazing new look. Can't wait until it is available.
Winning!
wow! it looks promising! can't wait to play with it!
I have to say this is disappointing.
"The Squarespace 6 beta will start with Squarespace friends and family." ????!! Did you not say this earlier this summer? You've built so much anticipation for this, it really feels like a let down. I have been holding out on moving back to WP, to see if this could work for my company. I might just move back now anyhow.
I know how hard this work is and how long it can take to get right, but at some point you have to commit to a timeline and get it done!
Awesome!! Very excited to check this out. Congrats to everyone on the Squarespace team!
Calling V6 amazing is an understatement. It's such a wonderful, well designed product built around user experience. Such a breakthrough in web development. Great job Squarespace!
Great Video! BTW: Invite Plz?
Amazing stuff! Cant wait! :D perfect news, when entering the darker periods of autumn and winter - now we got yet another reason to stay inside!
Rock On and congratulations Squarespace !
Now we're talking!
Fantastic news! Just can't wait to use it.
Why did you call this a "special announcement" and use "Hello World! #squarespace6" That was misleading.
What are you guys excited about? This is an announcement about another announcement.
What Alan Houser said!
I just clicked through to this page on my Window Phone 7 handset and the first thing I was met with was a flash error. Should I be worried that Squarespace is moving towards Flash rather than HTML5 and open standards? I'm guessing not, but would like to know for sure.
Other than the flash surprise I'm very excited about v6! I am very keen to try the beta.
Stunning work from the SqSp team.
I'm really looking forward to working with the new platform and hope it can be ready quickly for general public use. Be great if you could post snapshots or thumbnails of any new templates or designs we can work with.
I must be missing something, because all I see is a short blog post saying you can sign up (again) for a beta and then wait some more. How is that "awesome" "amazing" "congratulations" "great job" "game changer"? Seems like the same ole, same ole, which is nothing. And from the FAQ, sounds like it will be forever before you'll actually be able to do anything or even move over an existing site. Do you have to brown nose them to get into the beta? Is that why there are so many false positive comments?