Switching to Squarespace?
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 9:24AM If you’re reading this, I think I’ve successfully moved my Wordpress blog across to Squarespace after it was recommended by a few folks on Twitter. If you’re not reading this, please let me know. :-) I’ll switch the RSS feed across shortly, too, so apologies if you see a bunch of (really old) repeated articles in your feed reader.
If Squarespace doesn’t work out, there’s no harm, I’ll be back to Wordpress again without any loss. But it’s worth a try. The main lossage right now seems to be that I’ll want to recode all the code examples that are kicking around and, unless I want to manually syntax highlight with HTML, I’ll have to find an external service to do it. GitHub’s gists are probably the way forward if I need an external service, right?
Meantime, if you could all kick the tyres, leave some comments and let me know the new place is working out OK for you, that would be awesome. :-)
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I can’t see this post. The page just doesn’t load—no content, no comment box, nothing.
(Seriously, though: very interested to see how you get on with Squarespace)
Amusingly, I just did exactly the same thing last night. What's with the sudden migration to Squarespace? I'm giving them a month, and planning on writing the hell out of it to see how it stacks up against the 1001 other options out there.
I've ignored the WP import, though, just left my WP blog up under its old URL (journal.relativesanity.com).
The templating engine is the biggest issue for me so far. The built in templates and customisations you can do are awesome (as is the interface!), but it's not clear yet how, or even if, you can template something up from scratch, or if all you get is CSS control with occasional (upgrade-option-only) HTML injection for things like Typekit or Analytics.
Anyway, let's see where this goes, eh?
It's working here via Google reader and via web page.
@Jonathan Funnily enough it was your Twitter conversation with @fraserspeirs, combined with my desire to restart the blogging effort, that made the switch happen.
I've decided I'm happy enough with it that I've subscribed already. There are a couple of things that take a bit of getting used to (particularly logging in, for some strange reason) and the fact that the majority of the "admin" happens visually on the page, but I'm getting there.
Oh, and I seem to have missed moderated comments for the last few days because I wasn't getting any email notification! (Which is why I've only just noticed these comments!)
I'd like to hear your experiences about creating a template from scratch. In fact, if you succeed, I might have a job for you, if you're interested? ;-)