Sunday
03May2009
My new [blog] home
Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 4:51PM Welcome to my shiny new blog home. Well. I say shiny new but I have chosen to keep the look and feel of it much the same. However I have now been able to move the address to my own domain and to use the very impressive Squarespace to manage the blog along with the rest of my site.
Commenting and the other usual blog features work pretty much as before but Squarespace allows me to set up all sorts of new cool stuff very, very easily so I will probably end up tinkering a bit!
Reader Comments (14)
Happy blog move, Euan!
Nice to have a shiny new home for the blog, eh?
RSS Reader re-jigged and looking forward to more of the usual...
Thanks Antony!
RSS updated, Euan. What are the benefits of SquareSpace? Cheaper, easier etc.?
It makes it much, much easier to the design and alter the look if the site. Like I mean MUCH easier. The business package also includes forums and membership stuff. Lastly the stats they give you about traffic are really useful.
I shifted away from self-hosted when I had a big spam attack, but I keep getting tempted towards going for it again, when wordpress.com proves to be just not quite as flexible as I want it to be.
Well done for taking the leap - good to see the banner retained :)
Squarespace does the hosting - I just set up a custom domain.
And yes, losing the banner just felt "wrong" somehow.
Will check it out, cheers. I'm keen to consider options other than Typepad.
I'm interested in you blogging about distinctions between Typepad and Squarespace. The Typepad Connect plumbing looks like the solid piece of infrastructure that keeps me on Six Apart's platform, alongside its anti-spam measures and easy of management from a mobile phone. But I suspect my needs are not the same as a lot of others.
I moved my business site to Squarespace because I had had enough of the amount of fiddling that any changes to Wordpress involved. Having done so, and having wanted for a long time to combine my blog and business site under the one url I decided to move the blog too. So far I have been very impressed and most widgets work really easily - though I haven't moved all of them over. Spam comments an unknown quantity yet but great stats, can post from clients like Mars Edit, easy template tweaks etc.
Really like the new business site design - and love that you kept the blog banner!
Typepad's been good to me so far, but I end up spending a lot of time fiddling in HTML. Maybe it's time to go out and re-test the other blog services again? Now I'll have to add reviewing Squarespace to my list of todo tasks!
P.S. If you have a referral code that gives you some credit for the many people that will no doubt be testing out Squarespace now perhaps you'd like to drop it in the comments? I'll understand if modesty prevents you, but I'm pretty sure they'll be seeing some new business as a result of the people following you, and I for one would have no problem ensuring you get the credit for referral should I decide to switch...
Thanks Daniel - I'll suggest it to them!
Euan, Adding congratulations on your next generation site. Thanks too for sharing about Squarespace of which I hadn't heard although I see they are NYC based. Others have commented on Typepad and Wordpress and I'd welcome any further insight into Wordpress v Squarespace. Link from my blog is updated.
Thanks Jenny - and for the link. I moved because Squarespace made tweaking my business site much easier that Wordpress and I then decided to combine the two under my own domain name.
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