Currently, we’re investigating a statistics server issue that is impacting the display of statistics on a number of Squarespace websites. We have an auxiliary statistics server online in logging mode to ensure you’re not losing any data while we investigate this issue.

Your statistics will display and catch up shortly.

We’ll be taking Squarespace offline on Monday, May 12th from 1:00AM EST to 3:00AM EST in order to upgrade core equipment in our network. There’s a very good chance this maintenance will take shorter than the time alloted, but we’re giving ourselves a bit of padding.

This is the final upgrade before our massive V5 release coming up in about a month.

As always, thanks for your patience!

The Ceremony, Energy and Newsroom layouts got a mini face lift today. :)

As these layouts were created before the Form Widget was an available Squarespace feature, they required minor CSS adjustments for the Form Widget to meet our visual standards and to stay contained within the sidebar. If you are using one of our public layouts and one of our default styles, you don’t need to do anything. These changes will be seamless.

If you are using a custom layout or custom style, below I have outlined these changes, and how to revise them if you prefer.

• Navigate to ‘Structure & Style > Appearance > Customize > Custom CSS’
• For Ceremony, insert this code at the bottom of your Custom CSS:
  

  .form-body .singlelinetext-small-inline, .form-body .singlelinetext-medium-inline, .form-body .singlelinetext-large-inline, .form-body .paragraphtext-small-inline, .form-body .paragraphtext-medium-inline, .form-body .paragraphtext-large-inline, .content-passthrough .form-body .singlelinetext-small, .content-passthrough .form-body .singlelinetext-medium, .content-passthrough .form-body .singlelinetext-large  {  border: 1px solid #CCC; font-weight: normal !important; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; padding: 5px; width: 110px !important;  } 
  
  .content-passthrough .search-form-pt .queryField { border: 1px solid #CCC;  }

• For Energy, insert this code at the bottom of your Custom CSS:
  

  .form-body .singlelinetext-small-inline, .form-body .singlelinetext-medium-inline, .form-body .singlelinetext-large-inline, .form-body .paragraphtext-small-inline, .form-body .paragraphtext-medium-inline, .form-body .paragraphtext-large-inline, .content-passthrough .form-body .singlelinetext-small, .content-passthrough .form-body .singlelinetext-medium, .content-passthrough .form-body .singlelinetext-large  { font-weight: normal !important; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; padding: 5px; width: $(NavigationColumnWidth-70)$ !important; }

• For Newsroom, insert this code at the bottom of your Custom CSS:
  

  .form-body .singlelinetext-small-inline, .form-body .singlelinetext-medium-inline, .form-body .singlelinetext-large-inline, .form-body .paragraphtext-small-inline, .form-body .paragraphtext-medium-inline, .form-body .paragraphtext-large-inline, .content-passthrough .form-body .singlelinetext-small, .content-passthrough .form-body .singlelinetext-medium, .content-passthrough .form-body .singlelinetext-large  { font-weight: normal !important; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; padding: 5px; width: $(NavigationColumnWidth-50)$ !important; } 

• Don’t forget to save your changes!

A new set of templates have been added to the library called The Great Outdoors.

As with most of our templates, the column widths are fully customizable in the Style Settings area:

Structure & Style > Appearance > New Style > Customize > Style Settings

There are four new styles with bright, colorful graphical customizations that also allow for the simple addition of your own custom banner:

Structure & Style > Appearance > New Style > Customize > Banner & Icons

Thanks to Tyler Thompson for this great addition to our layout offerings!

A CSS issue has been corrected in the Camera Obscura layout that caused the footer to overlap the sidebar on sites with a large amount of sidebar content.

If you are using the Camera Obscura layout and one of our default styles, you don’t need to do anything. This has been corrected system wide.

If you are using a custom layout based on Camera Obscura, a custom style in Camera Obscura, and are experiencing this overlap on your site, apply this correction as follows:

• Navigate to ‘Structure & Style > Appearance > Customize > Custom CSS’
• Locate this:
  

  #pageFooterWrapper { width: 100%; clear: both; }
  #pageFooter { width: $(220+40+MainColumnWidth)$; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; }

• Replace it with this:
  

  #pageFooterWrapper { width: $(220+40+MainColumnWidth)$; clear: both; margin: 0 auto; }
  #pageFooter { width: $MainColumnWidth$; float: right; }



• Save your changes

This is an early post and inform everyone that we will be dropping Internet Explorer 6 support for the upcoming version (V5) of the Squarespace management interface.

We will continue to ensure all sites and styles we produce work 100% seamlessly for IE6 users, so your visitors won’t notice a difference. Again, we’re only discontinuing support for the INTERNAL interface. If you’re still relying on IE6 to post to your site from internet cafe’s and in other uncontrollable situations, we recommend you use an XML-RPC blogging client or our post-by-email feature to post to your site instead.

The sophistication of our interface in V5 is evolving immensely, and IE6 — which is now over 7 years old — simply can’t keep up with the experience we want to provide to the other 97% of our user base. Now is the time to update. Switch to IE7, Firefox 2 or 3, Safari, or Opera — all of which are excellent browsers and receive 100% support in Squarespace V5.

In preparation for Squarespace V5, we’ve patched a handful of layouts that were using custom templates, enabling them to receive important system-wide updates for this and future upgrades. If you are using one of our public layouts and one of our default styles, you don’t need to do anything. These changes will be seamless.

If you are using a custom layout or custom style, you may see minor changes to your site. Below I have outlined these changes, and how to revise them if you prefer.

1. A long dash now appears to the left of an active menu item, and you’d like to hide it.
   
   Add the following code to the Custom CSS area of your style manager:
   #active-module-marker { display: none; }
   
   
2. A small arrow appears to the left of an external link in your menu, and you’d like to hide it.
   
   Add the following code to the Custom CSS area of your style manager:
   .module .offsite-link { display: none; }
   
   
3. You now have an indicator to the left of a folder item in your menu, and you’d like to hide it.
   
   Add the following code to the Custom CSS area of your style manager:
   .folder-link-expand, .folder-link-contract { display: none; }
   
   

Again, if you are using one of our public layouts and one of our default styles, these patches will be transparent and you do not need to make these revisions to your CSS.

The update originally scheduled for Thursday, March 20th at 1:00 AM EST is being postponed. We’ll announce a new time shortly!

A CSS issue has been corrected in the Camera Obscura layout that caused the sidebar background image to cut off in Internet Explorer.

If you are using the Camera Obscura layout and one of our default styles, you don’t need to do anything. This has been corrected system wide.

If you are using a custom layout based on the Camera Obscura layout, or are using a custom style in the Camera Obscura layout, you can apply this correction as follows:

• Navigate to ‘Structure & Style > Appearance > Customize > Custom CSS’
• Locate this:
  

  #sidebarWrapper { width: 220px; background: url(/layout/images/NAME OF IMAGE) 0 0 no-repeat; float: left; height: 600px; }
  #sidebar { width: 170px; display: block; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: visible; padding: 20px 0 0 20px; }

• Replace it with this:
  

  #sidebarWrapper { width: 220px; background: url(/layout/images/NAME OF IMAGE) 0 0 no-repeat; float: left; height: 600px; }
  #sidebar { width: 170px; display: block; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: visible; padding: 20px 0 0 20px; }

• Amend ‘NAME OF IMAGE’ with the image file that is currently referenced in your style.
• Save your changes

A small bug has been fixed in the Katie layout that caused the canvas area to expand in IE6.

If you are using the Katie layout and one of our default styles, you don’t need to do anything. This has been corrected system wide.

If you are using a custom layout based on the Katie layout, or are using a custom style in the Katie layout, you can apply this correction as follows:

• Navigate to ‘Structure & Style > Appearance > Customize > Custom CSS’
• Locate this:
  

  #canvas { width: $(ColumnPadding+NavigationColumnWidth+ColumnPadding+MainColumnWidth+ColumnPadding)$; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; border-top: none; border-bottom: none; }

• Replace it with this:
  

  #canvas { width: $(ColumnPadding+NavigationColumnWidth+ColumnPadding+MainColumnWidth+ColumnPadding)$; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; border-top: none; border-bottom: none; overflow: hidden; }

• Save your changes