Thoughts on Squarespace

The other day I received an e-mail from a friend of mine asking my thoughts on Squarespace.  I also have been searching Squarespace on Twitter to see if there are any updates regarding their iPhone application that should be released any day now.  In the twitter search I found that there are a lot of people asking what people think of the platform, so I figured I would take some time and share my thoughts.

Before I begin, some of you may already know that before switching to Squarespace my blog was hosted through Media Temple and built with Wordpress.  There are a several good things about Wordpress:  It’s free, it can be self-hosted, and there are thousands of free plugins and themes available for the less savvy bloggers out there.
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Beautiful HTML

Before venturing into server side code, I was primarily a web designer and developer.  The past couple of weeks I have had to deal with a few sites that look great on the exterior, but when going to make a simple change I view the source only to find out that the HTML is nothing less of a catastrophic disaster.  I would think that by using tools such as Dreamweaver, having a DOCTYPE declared in the site would be automatic these days.   Chris Coyier has a great post over on CSS Tricks about Beautiful HTML and what it should look like.

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A sad reality: IE 6 and PNG

The one question I have is, “Why doesn’t Windows make it mandatory to update your browser with a Windows Update?”  I will admit I am a Mac enthusiast and one of the many things Apple does right is their software update.  Throughout the past few months I have come across a few clients that are still using the browser I can only describe as pure crap.  So instead of testing these sites in Internet Explorer 7/8, Firefox, and Safari, it’s also still a requirement to test in IE 6 if I choose to use a graphic format such as PNG.  Of course I could go with the format that is supported – GIF, but let’s be honest: It’s just as crappy as the browser itself.
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