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Tyler Thompson {32} #squarespace

Remember when you saw #squarespace on twitter everyday, all day for a month? Tyler Thompson, the Squarespace Creative Director joins us to tell us what’s behind the hashtag, and more — why Squarespace is THE WEB PUBLISHING SYSTEM you should be using. CreativeXpert is not responsible for accidents caused by listening to this week’s show closing. | duration 60:37

Tyler’s links:  NEWTOYORK | Follow Tyler on Twitter | Tyler’s posts on Squarespace
(Be sure to read Tyler’s IE6 comments on the bottom of NEWTOYORK)

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Episode 32 Features:

  • What is Squarespace? A web based blogging application that allows people to build websites and blogs.
  • Eric spills his heart, seems like he has sold his soul to Squarespace. I wonder if he’s got a tattoo as well.
  • Tyler gives us some background information of himself and how he got into web design.
  • Tyler tells us the history of Squarespace
  • Eric asks how is it that only as of recent that Squarespace has gained popularity and market share.
  • We hear news about a upcoming iPhone app, S3 backing up and other tools for transferring over from another CMS.
  • Tyler explains what it is that makes Squarespace so unique and standout.
  • Writing CSS Real Time as part of the platforms customization features.
  • Tyler apparently has a deep passion for IE 6
  • We find out about the recent marketing tactic where #squarespace utilized twitter which was apparently extremely successful.
  • Alan asks about the best place to start if he was going to work on a website for a client.
  • Tyler gets technical to us about the Squarespace servers and backend
  • Tyler talks about his position  and what he does day to day at Squarespace.
  • Working with constraints.
  • We hear about how Kevin Rose was able to totally redefine the design of his new blog on his own which demonstrates the ease of use and intuitive learning curve of the platform.
  • Eric tells us about his design process for the latest client’s site that he launched.
  • We hear from Tyler about how it is made easy it is to take art direction to individual posts.

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