Pure Squarespace

Well the re-design is now live. There are still a couple things I need to tweak, but they are so minimal that I did not want to hold up the re-launch while I worked on them. I hope you like it, please let me know what you think.

If you were familiar with my last version, you will note a total 100% change.

I really liked the old version, due to all the bells and whistles I added to it (i.e. Javascript Slideshows, outside Widgets, neat CSS tricks, and every other cool thing that I tested out and added because it worked).

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New Commenting Method

While going through Squarespace’s Developer Community, I noticed a post asking if Squarespace works with Disqus. As soon as I found out that it does, I tracked down the instructions and implemented it on my site. It took me a total of 5 minutes to configure it, and add it to my site.

All works well, but it does overwrite the original amount of comments each post has, as well as hiding them too. I dug through their code and found a way to make the old comments show. So if you have commented on my site recently, each post might show “0 Comments” (I am still looking into fixing this), but they are once again visible when you go to each post individually.

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I'm on Squarespace

About a year ago I finally got enough motivation and wanted to start a blog for myself. I did a ton of research on different CMS / blog platforms including Blogger, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc... After pulling my hair out from going over the ton of different options between each, I started a quick blog using Tumblr, because I wasn't sure how I would like doing it, and it was free.

I started by adding pictures and quick updates of what I was doing to my Tumblr blog. After awhile, and as soon as I got my iPhone, my content started to pickup and get bigger in doing App reviews and writing longer stories about me and what I was up to. Because of this, I knew I needed to move my blog to a bigger more robust platform.

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