Squarespace for iPhone v1.2

Hot on the heels of our Android release, Squarespace for iPhone v1.2 is available for download. The most important thing we tackled in this update is vastly improved stability. We've rebuilt the app on an entirely new framework. Those pesky crashes? Gone. While we were at it, we added a number of features, including a few notable items:

• Markup Editor: A new markup editor to the post creator gives you greater control over your content. Now you can choose the editing mode (Text, HTML, Textile, and Markdown) for posts on an individual basis while composing your drafts.
• Updated UI: The user interface has been fine-tuned, including new images, icons, and animations throughout the app. 
• Sounds: We added sounds as you navigate, enhancing the overall experience. You can turn the sounds on (they're off by default) in the Accounts settings within the app.

You can download the update from the iTunes App Store now. As always, if you have any questions regarding the app just let our support team know.

Enjoy!

Happy Holidays: Squarespace For iPad Has Arrived

Squarespace for iPad is finally here and just in time for the holidays.  Consider it our holiday gift to you.  The iPad's extra real estate gave us much more room to breathe and allowed us to pack quite a bit more into the mobile Squarespace experience. If you've used Squarespace for the iPhone, you'll feel right at home with the iPad version.

Editing posts on the iPad is a great experience -- you'll see tags, categories, excerpts, comment counts, and the post's author along with the date and time.  Tapping a post or comment now opens a tray below the post containing your options for action.  This lets you take action without losing sight of the post you have selected.

The post editor is now one of the most powerful iOS text editors this side of Pages.  A good portion of the web editor has made it into the iPad app.  Just like in the iPhone version, you can change editing modes (Text, Markdown, Textile, Raw HTML), but now, if you're in Markdown, Textile, or Raw HTML, you'll be able to bold text, italicize, mark quotations, insert photos and links, and even set an excerpt!  Plus, you'll find a very handy pair of undo/redo buttons in the top left.

We've spent an immense amount of time on the details of the user interface -- and we hope you'll download the app to experience it for yourself.  As our primary mobile developer Chris Cox says, "It's bad ass."

As always with a new release, if you notice any oddities, please let us know by opening up a support ticket through Website Management > Support Tickets area in your account manager.

Update on 2011-01-14 18:05 by M. Burstiner

Squarespace for iPad was just updated to v1.0.1 with a boatload of bugfixes including:

• Fixes description text when switching from text post to html, markdown, or textile 
• Crash when not saving new post
• Fixes crash when in landscape and switching to comments tab with no comments
• Fixes changing the title for an account, it is now immediately reflected on the background pages 
• Fixes no-internet connection local draft saving 
• Fixes pending & new comments sort order in manage list 
• Fixes change options in manage page for local draft posts 
• Adds clone post when saving as iPad draft 
• Improved image cache and downloading post images speed and efficiency 
• Fixes manual scrolling for large posts in editor

Squarespace for iPhone v1.1

In terms of software, a .1 version bump isn't generally something to get super psyched about, but we're pretty excited about this one, and we think you will be, too. This update is a doozy. But really, beyond full support for iOS 4's background tasks and fast app switching multitasking features, & iPhone 4 Retina Display support, what else could we have possibly fit in there? Well, since you ask:

• Editing Modes. You asked for it, you got it. You now have full control over your editing modes including Text, HTML, Markdown, and Textile. The best part is, the mode selection stays synced to your post once it's been pushed from the app. Open it up in your site, and it'll be in the same editing mode. Change it there, and it'll be changed when you get back to the app.

• Comment Moderation. This has been a very long time coming, but hey, anything worth doing is worth doing well, right? Moderate existing comments, reply to comments, approve comments, mark comments as spam, and email comment authors directly from the app.

• Push Notifications. Yes, this is technically part of comments, but it deserves its own bullet. New comments and/or comments awaiting moderation will now send a push notification to your device. New comments will also pop a pretty badge onto the app's icon if you ignore the push notification.

• Bug Fixes. Had to be mentioned. Photo uploads are back in working order and ready to go. Not to mention, we've optimized it for speed, so you should notice a significant boost.

Alrighty, folks, have at it! It's up and ready for download in the iTunes app store. Users upgrading from a previous version of the app must uninstall the old version before upgrading. As always, if you encounter any bugs, funky/chunky monkeys, monkey wrenches, or other oddities, let us know by opening up a support ticket. Otherwise, enjoy!

M! 

Yéle Haiti

The tragedy of the past week left us, like so many around the world, speechless. While the full impact of the quake was slowly becoming clear, we sat here wishing there was more we could do to help.

Every once in a while opportunity drops right in your lap.

On Wednesday, January 13th, we happened to run across a particularly high-traffic site that had just been created. It didn't take long for us to realize who it was. "Yéle Haiti? Isn't that Wyclef's relief organization that we just saw on CNN?" Within minutes we had emailed the link around to the entire office and verified that this was the real deal.

We were hosting an organization that was on the ground, making an immediate impact towards recovery. We immediately reached out to the Yéle Haiti folks to see if there was anything we could do. 

Apparently, on the first day of the earthquake, their previous web host had crashed under the strain of traffic brought on by people around the world looking to learn more and make a difference. The Yéle Haiti team looked to move to a platform that could handle this increased load and decided on Squarespace. They quickly redirected yele.org and our cloud infrastructure began immediately serving more than 10,000 uniques to it every hour. With the immediate traffic issues solved, Senior Designer Krystyn Heide jumped in to work with Yéle Haiti team on fine-tuning the design.

Previously, their site was static and difficult to update. As Yéle Haiti's mission is now shifting from long-term projects to immediate earthquake relief, the flexibility of Squarespace is critical in allowing multiple staffers to quickly edit content, whether in front of a computer or in the field via email or our iPhone app.

We are so excited to be able to help and sincerely ask that you do the same. Watch Yéle's live press conference from yesterday to hear more about their organization's recent efforts.  If you would like to make a tax deductible donation, you can either text "YELE" to 501501 on your cell phone (a $5 donation will be charged to your next cell phone bill), or donate online.

Our hearts go out to everyone involved.

Diggnation Live in NYC!

Squarespace is thrilled to build on the excitement of our iPhone app release as one of the sponsors of tonight's Diggnation Live event!

Our friends Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht will be on hand, along with a huge crowd of crazy, lovable NYC geeks. The night will be filled with lots of high-flying surprises (that's a hint), and Squarespace tshirts!

We know that not everyone can make it to the actual event, but we wanted to make sure to keep you up-to-date with all the action--so we designed an awesome Squarespace site to help you do it!

Tune into Diggnationlive.squarespace.com throughout the day and evening to watch as we set up for the event, shadow the Squarespace girls, and enjoy the Live Diggnation show. Best of all, the site is entirely powered by our new Squarespace iPhone app, and will include posts, tweets and photos from our whole Squarespace team.

There's still time to RSVP if you'd like to come--hopefully we'll see a bunch of Squarespacers tonight!