By day, I am a mild-mannered web developer. These are related notes.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 2:18PM The Mac doesn't come with wget, but you can easily make an alias called "wget".
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 2:57PM Overall, I love my new Squarespace site. But here is the good with the bad.
Only one problem: Painful customization
But, soapbox aside, despite there being more negatives than positives listed here (and that I bolded the negatives so that Squarespace staff will let me preview v6 already), I do really enjoy how I am able to create and centralize my own stuff here and plan to continue using it and finding ways to make my life easier (and pass it on, if I do)!
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 4:49PM How do you include snippets of HTML code into multiple pages on your Squarespace site?
There are several ways to do this, but one particularly straightforward solution was to add jQuery to the head of every page, create an HTML page to include, and then load part of that page into an empty DOM element. Here are instructions based on what I did. You can use whatever DOM element (e.g., <div> or <p>) and class or id you like.
First, insert jQuery into the <head> of every page.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$('#updates').load('/updates/ #content');
});
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">$(function(){$('#updates').load('/updates/ #content');});</script>
Second, create a new HTML page.
Third, add an empty DOM element to your target page(s).
<div id="updates"></div>
And you're done! It's more than one step (and Squarespace should offer this functionality natively) but it's still easy and quick to implement.
The only small issue I found with this solution is that Squarespace adds another "edit page" link above the included code, which opens the edit window for the page you're on and not the included page. To edit that page, just go to it directly.
