RAPID WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
Squarespace is used by bloggers, businesses large and small, authors, teachers, lawyers, doctors etc and can power sites of all sizes. If you need help or are short of time we can customise your squarespace template. Squarespace makes the advanced easy. It enables people of all skill levels to control and update their websites. Squarespace is intuitive enough that you can make all the little changes and updates that need to be made to your site. With Squarespace, we can build your site faster and devote more of our time to the design and not the setup. We have found Squarespace to be reliable. There is a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
DESIGN BENEFITS
Templates.
Some good looking templates.
Robust typographic systems.
Automatic conversion of dashes and quotes to high-ascii entities ensures your text is beautiful and readable. Automatic MS word formatting stripping for pastes, and more.
Overrides are available for any style on our system, and developers have access to full CSS control. Everything can be completely customised.Built for discerning developers.
BLOG MODULE
Squarespace sites include clean article links, proper tagging, and valid XHTML code. All which make your site loved by search engines.SEO optimized.
We don't use an out of the box WYSIWYG system for our editor. Ours is designed from the ground up to flawlessly integrate with our environment and give you the control you need.Completely custom WYSIWYG editing interface.
Integrated distributed anti-spam system blocks over 99.5% of incoming spam. Our system blocks millions of spam comments a day, and leverages activity across our entire network to defend your site.Anti spam.
Code insertion and video insertion directly from our WYSIWYG interface. Full iTunes tag support.Built for Podcasting.
Post via email support with automatic image resizing.Moblogging support.
This List Goes On and On...
- XML-RPC pinging mechanisms to ensure your site is searched by all major search engines as soon as you post.
- Feedburner support. Plug in your feedburner feed and Squarespace will replace our feed URLs across our entire system for you. RSS feeds are fully embedded into every blog posting.
- Entry scheduling let you schedule entries to be published in the future, and also lets you set cut-off dates to stop accepting new post comments.
- Extremely flexible post display options. Every item on a post can be re-ordered or renamed to fit your site style.
- Media management and image resizing built WYSIWYG.
- XML-RPC blogging client support.
- Printer friendly and e-mailable article links for every entry. Share this entry button included on each entry to enable social syndication.
- Permalinks, ShareThis, Comments, Trackbacks, and Date text and position are fully configurable on every single post. No option is pre-set.
- Valid RSS, ATOM, and RDF syndication.
- Multiple ways to edit: Textile, Markdown, Raw HTML, and WYSIWYG.
- Trackbacks and references support.
- Group entries into categories, use tags to sort entries.
- Full archiving system allows for easy entry searching. Day, week, month, and category based archives.
iTunes RSS tag support for podcasters.
DETAILED WEB SITE ANALYTICS
Squarespace monitors your sites visitor counts, including raw, unique, and robot hits.Full statistics system.
Your site statistics are computed every 30 seconds, for a real-time view of your numbers.Real-time statistics.
Squarespace contains custom visualization for all of your important website traffic.Beautiful statistics display.
RELIABILITY / ARCHITECTURE
This site is running on squarespace.We use it.
Squarespace has been in business for over 5 years. We've ensured our system is robust through real world use, not lab testing.99.98% Uptime. Battle hardened architecture.
Caching? Partial rendering? Load balancing? Scaling up? It's all handled. Squarespace sites are on a grid. This is not shared hosting.Pre-optimized for traffic.
Squarespace gives you fine grained control over who can visit your site, and what IPs are logged while visiting.IP access filters
SITE STRUCTURE / CODING
Squarespace lets you map your domain transparently over ours, ensuring visitors never see a Squarespace domain when viewing your site.Custom domain support.
Total editorial control.
Want advertising on your site? A tip jar? Paypal links? Go for it. Squarespace does not place advertising on any website on our service, and you're free to monetize your site in any way you want.
CORE MODULES
All Squarespace sites include a robust feature set of modules or building blocks that you can use to create your site
Rapid, on site structuring and page insertion.
All Squarespace sites are entirely configurable directly from our user interface. Pages can be added and re-arranged by dragging and dropping right on your live site.
PHOTO GALLERY MODULE
Many presentation options.
Squarespace galleries can be presented to show single galleries, groups of galleries, image thumbnails, full images, and more.
All Squarespace galleries come pre-loaded with a lightbox implementation that allows for beautiful full browser sized imagery.Lightbox integrated.
Hover effects and transitions.
Multiple lightweight hover and resize effects come standard with every gallery.
Automatic image resizing.
Set parameters to auto-resize images added from your camera, avoiding tedious steps when taking your pictures to the web.
All Squarespace galleries fully support Media RSS, opening up a world of extensions and presentation options to your viewers. Popular plugins like PicLens are fully supported.Media RSS built in.
CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE
Squarespace has an internal search engine that constantly updates with all changes to your site. Don't rely on an external crawler which may or may not visit your site regularly to provide your readers with accurate search.Accurate, useful site search.
Immediately updated.
Squarespace search is updated with your site's content within 15 seconds of any updates.
Instant results.
Our search engine is built on the Apache Lucene core, meaning that your search results return in a split second.
Works with private site areas.
Squarespace's search is fully integrated with its permissions and authentication system. Have a private site? No problem. Members can search any area of your site they have access to, regardless of if the public can see that area.
SITE MEMBERSHIP AND PERMISSIONS
All parts of your site can be marked as private, public, or editable.Powerful membership and permissions system.
Audiences system.
Segment out parts of your site to display differently for various site member audiences.
All Squarespace blogging systems support multiple editors.Multiple editors.
DATA COLLECTION MODULE
Completely integrated, 100% drag and drop form construction interface.
Squarespace business accounts contain an extremely sophisticated form construction module, which lets you create forms of any type and collect data from your visitors.
15 field types.
Our form builder is incredibly robust, supporting over 15 different data types, such as addresses, currency, emails, and text fields.
Microsoft Excel compatible.
Our form module natively saves your submissions to a Microsoft Excel data file, for easy analysis and recording.
Email receipts, email submissions.
Our form module can be configured to send out personalized email receipts, as well as report entries directly via email. We use our form module to power the contact us area of this very website.
TOTAL DATA PORTABILITY
Squarespace supports simple importing for all of your site's data.Import from Blogger, Movable Type, Typepad, and Wordpress.
Export to Movable Type and XML. Your data is yours to keep. Squarespace supports exporting to MT format, and also is the only system on the web that gives you complete site snapshots that let you take your data anywhere.
Site Snapshots. Squarespace sites can be snapshotted to XML, allowing you to move your data anywhere.
RAPID PLATFORM SUPPORT
Our experienced support staff is on call to handle any issues you may have. Issues are always escalated to engineers quickly, and platform engineers are constantly monitoring the support system to ensure perfection.Full support system.
FLEXIBLE PRICING WITH NO CONTRACTS
All Squarespace contracts are month to month (with yearly contracts offered at the 10% discount). Cancel at any time from the online interface with no questions asked.No contracts. No credit card up front.
Change plans any time.
It's simple to upgrade or downgrade your plan at any time. Credits are applied automatically for partial months.
Flexible pricing.
Squarespace packages include generous amounts of bandwidth and storage -- but more importantly, bandwidth and storage is actually reliable. The cheapest package is about £4.30 per month but the option Kyomedia recommend is about £7.50 a month (based on US$ exchange rate in Aug 09)
Please contact us if you would like help creating your website in Squarespace. Why not give it a try now?