The Squarespace iPhone app has a completely custom user interface we have developed in house that matches your Squarespace site's look and feel completely.  We've also developed the only iPhone application on any major publishing platform that contains a iPhone native statistics interface, tightly integrating your phone, your site, and your data.  The main features of the application include:

• Posting - Snap photos on your phone, and quickly post them to your blog!  Or easily draft blog posts directly from your "Post" tab -- all of your current tags and categories will be there.
• Content Management - All of your posts will be accessible directly from your "Manage" tab. You can edit drafts, delete posts and preview posts with ease.
• Multiple Account Management - Your "Accounts" tab allows you to manage content for multiple Squarespace sites. You can save a draft post for one site and then easily jump to another site to schedule a post for later in the day.
• Viewing Your Statistics - You can now view your Squarespace site statistics right from the application's statistics tab.  Unique visits, page views, popular search terms, RSS subscribers and top referrers are all included.
• Live Site Preview - Double check your work before you click "publish" with the app's "Preview" tab. 

 We've tried to include all the best features of Squarespace in our initial release.  So, download the app and let us know what you think! 

Note:  Due to the extremely long approval times Apple requires -- we are already well into the next version of this application.  In that version, you'll have comment management and approval as well as a number of other small refinements.  We know this is a big feature, and it's coming extremely soon.

And the hilarious Jamie Kennedy.

Kevin Pollak's site uses a neat Flickr slideshow integration technique on the front page that almost makes it look the TV is changing channels! And Jamie Kennedy's site really pushes the envelope in terms of what's possible with the Squarespace platform.

We think both sites look great--what do you think?

We've just launched a brand-new, "totally rad" site for Revision3's Totally Rad Show. There's a lot of great customization in this one to enhance user interaction — click 'Post a Comment' on the blog page to see what I mean. ;)

Here's more new Squarespace sites on the scene you might want to check out:

• Film Riot, from the Revision3 family 
• ABC News Radio is using Squarespace to unite all of their podcasts 
• Alex Albrecht, of TRS, Diggnation and Project Lore — and,
• Fox News's Clayton Morrison also relaunched his Grizzly Bear Cafe podcast site.

What are some of your favorite Squarespace sites? Leave us a link in the comments!

Take a look at our new environmental impact page for the details. We're really proud of what we've done with this and would love to hear your thoughts.

Data portability is always a critical feature with every major blogging platform. If you need to move your site, you need to have control over your content-- and that includes the ability to import and export your blog.

Squarespace has provided both importing options (from most popular formats) and exporting options (to Movable Type format) since day one, but there's always been an elephant in the room that nobody discusses when it comes to portability: when you move your site, these export files don't contain your media from your old posts. In other words, in most cases you'll have to keep your old site live so that images on your new site will work. Additionally, new systems almost always have different URL structures --meaning that links to your old posts will inevitably break when you move.

These are serious problems that we set out to solve. Which is why it's with great pleasure that I can finally announce our new importing tool. The new system will:

• Support more importing types - We realize that there are a variety of blogging platforms out there, so we engineered an Importer designed to work with all the major online blogging tools including: Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad and Movable Type. 
• Move ALL of your data over - After entering your login credentials, our Importer Tool will migrate all of your old blog posts, comments, tags, authors and more to your new Squarespace site. You will lose nothing.
• Crawl existing post media and rehost to Amazon S3 - Upon importing, Squarespace will crawl all the media from your old posts and ensure these files are uploaded to our Amazon S3 account. That means you can safely cancel your old service without worrying about how to download your images and re-upload them (an impossible manual task). Further, this won't count against your Squarespace bandwidth bill at all, as this technology is on our next generation media platform that's built to scale (using S3!).
• Ensure URLs map over to Squarespace properly - For users with custom domains moving over, we actually use the URL structure of your existing site and create mappings for every single one of your old posts -- automatically. This ensures that when you move your domain over to us, in most cases, all links to your old posts will work, and nothing will break. Your PageRank will update seamlessly, and the move will have no impact on the SEO status you've taken so long to build.

As with all new features -- there will likely be kinks, but let us know right away and we'll get to the bottom of things. Enjoy!

Usonian was a term used by the late Frank Lloyd Wright to refer to his clean, efficient, beautiful architecture for the masses.

In the same way, this template provides a solid framework for nearly any website. It is a clean, professional base that just needs your personal or corparate branding.

A few highlights:

Full-Width Headers and Footers - background colors and banner images run seam-to-seam on the canvas for a really sharp effect.

Block-Style Sidebar Links - full-width links increase hit space and make for great looking hovers.

How do you get Usonian? It's already been added system-wide, just log in and browse the system templates [Style Editing Mode > Templates]...enjoy!

We are thrilled to be amongst a group of some of the most innovative and fastest-growing private companies in the United States. Our rank is #339 on the overall list, #32 on the IT Services list, and #23 on the NY Regional List.

Josh jumped on the case, and took to creating a bunch of working examples of our most requested customizations for the photo gallery and journal modules. These sites are live examples, with the exact configurations and CSS you'll need to achieve them. We plan on adding more of these for other modules in the future, to help people achieve some cool, more advanced things with their Squarespace sites.

If you feel like diving into some Custom CSS, jump on over and see the different options you can set up for your Squarespace site.

Journal Customizations

Photo Gallery Customizations

Ever wish you could work on your Squarespace site in peace, and do things behind-the-scenes without people visiting your site and seeing your progress before you're ready?

I am going to show you how to throw up a quick "under construction" splash page, so you can get down to business without anyone peeking at your goods. ( You will need an advanced account or higher for this )

1. Click into Style Editing Mode ( the paint brush )
2. Click "Template" and then click the little "Copy" link on one of the styles in that template.
3. Then name that new style "Under Construction" via the "Advanced" tab.
4. Click "Banner & Navigation," and choose the One Column option. Choose  the no top navigation option below that (they are both the furthest left options), and hit "Save." You can also change the width of the column at this point too, if you have a graphic that you want to match it up with.
5. Click "Website Management" in the upper left of the window to pull up the admin menu, and choose "Architecture."
6. Then, in one of your existing navigation sections, add a "Basic HTML" page and name it "Under Construction." At the bottom of the menu, you will see a drop down called "Style Override" -- drop it down, and choose your newly created "Under Construction" style. Hit "Save."
7. Now, hover over your "Under Construction" page and click "Configure."You will see the same menu, but at the very bottom again, click "Set as Front Page." This makes the newly created "Under Construction" page your homepage.
8. Now you can go to that page and type your message or add an under construction image. By choosing a one column layout with no top nav options, there will be no nav bar showing.
9. (Optional) If you want, you can even hide the header and footer, so that only your message is visible and nothing else. To do this, make sure you have the current "Under Construction" style enabled and jump back to "Style Editing" mode. Go to "Custom CSS" and type the following:

 

#pageHeaderWrapper, #pageFooterWrapper { display: none; }

Welcome to super stealth mode.

Now for the rest of your pages, you will want to apply a different style so that you can change things without it affecting your under construction page.

Hope that helps! Feel free to chime in if you have a different and or better work-flow for this.