Squarespace Party NYC Recap

Wow — what an incredible night.

Our first Squarespace event was a monumental success, drawing over 150 amazing people to our new offices in SoHo on Friday night. Most stayed quite a while, and the crowd was lingering fully past midnight. I was completely stunned at the turnout and I’d like to thank all of you for coming out!

When I started Squarespace 5 years ago, and even just a year ago before our NYC team was formed, I never imagined we’d be at this point. The best part about the event, for myself — was that it didn’t feel like a tech event to me. The crowd that came out spanned industries. Everyone who came out was incredibly diverse and talented. and it was a very validating experience to see that what we’re working for is attracting the sort of people that are so inspiring to us. Something is going right.

We’ll be posting pictures of the event here Monday. Thanks again to everyone who showed up, and if you didn’t say come say hi this time, please do next time!

Office Update #3

The track lights are in and the steel wall framing is finished.

Bathroom #1 - The urinal room!

Press Release: Squarespace Transforms Website Publishing With Isilon IQ

We are humbled that Isilon, one of the world leaders in clustered storage systems, has highlighted Squarespace as key example of their systems in a large implementation. Please check out their press release for more information, we couldn’t be happier with their systems and our growing relationship!

Squarespace Party!

If you are going to be in New York area on October 24th, feel free to stop by our new office space for the first ever Squarespace Meetup Party. Who should come? Users, Fans, Clients, Fans of Clients, Client of Fans, Friends, Members, etc. - Come enjoy Beer, Dry Red Wine, L’asso Pizza and Squarespace specials (that includes the new Squarespace shirts as well..)

Our First Billion Dollar Client Site

We’re insanely excited to announce the first billion dollar company using the Squarespace platform for their website — a big welcome Marc Ecko Enterprises (the global fashion/clothing brand). Check out:

http://www.marceckoenterprises.com/

Which is a Squarespace site just like ours and yours, using the same technologies, on the same platform. And for those interested, here’s how dead on we were with respect to keeping the design of the original non-Squarespace implementation:

http://stage-marceckoenterprises.ecko.mp.advection.net/

It’s of course more functional and scalable on our service than the hacked-CMS that ran it prior.

Another very interesting point: There was no cheating in this conversion — and by that I mean this conversion was done with absolutely no modifications to our base XHTML templates, no special Javascript or hosting, and no special backend code. That’s right. No rewriting of our core code — not even a single line, and the site matches up that closely. This is what V5 is all about.