Thanks George! I appreciate the info. stan
On Mar 5, 2013, at 9:06 AM, George Sinos wrote: > Hi Stan > > The template is "Wells." It looks different from the sample because I > changed the background color to black and made a small change to the > font. This template has a nice gallery presentation that I currently > have turned off. I'll add a couple of galleries over the next few > days. > > I downloaded my content from posterous but did not use it as input to > Squarespace. It took a while for the backup to be ready and available > for download. I have the content archived. > > Squarespace has a direct import from posterous. That only took about > a minute or so. There was some cleanup necessary. > > All of the blog text was imported as a caption for the associated > photo. Honestly, I could have left it, but the photo caption text is > smaller than body text. So I went into each entry and moved the text > from the caption area to the text box. It was about 3 hours of > boring cut and paste work while I was watching a spring training > baseball game on TV. I did report the problem to Squarespace support > and they were willing to look into it, but I told them they could > forget it (unless they wanted to do it for themselves.) I've been > around IT long enough to know how much time can be spent on these > types of problems. It was quicker just to cut and paste the content. > > There was one video that did not import. I don't know why. I have > the video hosted on Smugmug, so it was easy to re-point the > Squarespace blog post to the Smugmug video. > > There were a few blog posts that had several photos in posterous slide > shows. When I first looked at the result of the import I thought only > the first photo had been imported. Actually all of them had been > imported, but the default Squarespace format for the slideshows has > the controls set to invisible. Squarespace actually has more > slideshow formats and options so I just had to reconfigure those. > > That was it. Maybe a total of about 8 hours spent over 3 days and I > was in business. Last night I pointed GeorgeSinos.com and connected > it on the Squarespace customization page, so the browser address bar > now reports my domain instead of squarespace.com. > > Two more hints. 1) Watch the introductory videos. They will get you > oriented faster. 2) Every template has its own little options and > quirks. These may not be initially obvious but they are outlined in > the last section of the template. > > By the way, Squarespace support answered both of my emails in less > than an hour. > > > > > George Sinos > -------------------- > [email protected] > www.georgesphotos.net > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> > wrote: >> George - a couple of questions. >> a - what template did you use? Your new blog is nice and clean and simple. I >> went through all of their templates and can't figure which one you chose. >> b - any problems moving stuff from Posterous? I tried the Import button, >> gave my Posterous sign-in info, and got a Tilt message about 5 seconds later. >> >> stan >> >> On Mar 4, 2013, at 7:00 PM, George Sinos wrote: >> >>> With the closing of Posterous I was looking for an alternative. After >>> a bit of experimentation it looks as though I'll be sticking with >>> Squarespace for now. >>> >>> I've imported the old data directly from Posterous, experimented with >>> a couple of different templates and have the basic blog up and >>> functioning. >>> >>> I particularly like the integration with Smugmug and will be looking >>> into exploiting it when I put a couple of galleries there. >>> >>> Along the way I had a couple of questions and they were answered >>> quickly by customer support. That's another plus. >>> >>> One disadvantage is the amount of customizing that is available. The >>> temptation is to spend a lot of time messing around with stuff that >>> doesn't end up making a lot of difference to the readers. A little >>> discipline will be necessary. >>> >>> I'll be setting up a custom url later, but you can look at the initial >>> basic blog here >>> >>> <george-sinos.squarespace.com> >>> >>> Click on any of the photos to see them full screen. Let me know if >>> you have any difficulties or input. >>> >>> Thanks, gs >>> George Sinos >>> -------------------- >>> [email protected] >>> www.georgesphotos.net >>> plus.georgesinos.com >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
