The Squarespace iPhone App is Live!

After months of testing, re-testing, fine-tuning and development, the Squarespace iPhone App has finally been approved by both ourselves and Apple (no small feat!).  

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.

Update on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 10:49AM by A. Casalena

1.0.4 RELEASE UPDATE:  Guys, we have a few known issues with this release that we've recorded and have fixed, but the app store is delaying our approval for 1.0.5 as usual, which we'd normally have fixed for you all immediately.  We know about:

• Passwords not being accepted that have special characters.
• Images sometimes being rotated imporperly after posting.
• Landscape view for editing entries.
• Stats labels for Robots/Uniques being incorrectly shown.

Thanks!  If you're experiencing something not on this list, feel free to write in! 

Release: The New Blog Importer

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!

So @chrishfilms wins our #squarespace iPhone and goes to SLEEP?! CHRIS. please.

At Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 5:34PM

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HAH! #squarespace is now the #1 trending topic, up from yesterday. Die AT&T.

At Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 12:48PM

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Day #2 -- top #1-#2 trending spot AGAIN. #squarespace - OMG PICK MEEE. (jk.. jk)

At Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 11:44AM

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Love our new blog design. Grats to @tyler_thompson. #squarespace

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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!

A Big Welcome to Stephen Parker and Shaun Horine

We’d like to extend a huge welcome to two members of our community, Stephen Parker (designed the Messier template) and Shaune Horne — who have recently joined our team. Stephen and Shawn are easily recognizable to anyone who has spent any time on our forums, and represent a huge jump forward for our support team.

Our internal goal is to get every question responded to within 15 minutes at every single point in the day. We’re not there yet, but we’re close.

Squarespaced: Popular Sites Rebuilt in 30 Minutes

Watch our team members re-create sites you recognize from around the web in a couple of minutes using the new Squarespace V5. Keep in mind — we’re not modifying HTML templates or using anything other than our software to make these sites. Most of the time, the resulting Squarespace site is actually more functional than the original.

http://www.squarespace.com/squarespaced/

August Bandwidth, Storage and Pricing Updates

Just a note to everyone to check this bandwidth and pricing notice on the service blog:

http://service.squarespace.com/service-blog/2008/7/30/august-bandwidth-storage-and-pricing-updates.html

Thanks!