Here at Inkd, we are aficionados of compelling, and visually stunning design. We also love ways to get amazing design easily and cheaply. Naturally, a company like Squarespace would grab our attention! Based out of New York, Squarespace is a web publishing company that provides an easy, no-frills way for anyone to build and manage awesome looking websites, blogs, and portfolios.

Squarespace’s platform allows users to build their site from the ground up with an easy to use interface that allows users who aren’t web designers the same degree of creative control over their sites. The site also includes real-time analytics and traffic stats, file-storage, social plugins, and much much more!

Also, Squarespace’s designs look amazing.

Users can choose from over 60 professionally designed website templates which are fully customizable, through their interface. Plus if you want even further customization Squarespace’s templates are super developer friendly if you feel like getting down to the nitty-gritty of your site’s design.

Squarespace is a lot like Inkd in that they are an easy, cost effective design solution that provides excellent quality designs. The company recently bagged $38.5 Million in additional funding and we think it’s well deserved. Congrats!

To help celebrate, SquareSpace has offered Inkd members 10% off the life of their account! To redeem, use the promo code, “INKD” when you join!

Many graphic designers and creatives work in environments that can benefit from mobile access to tools of their trade. If not full-time, many work at least part-time in a freelance manner too.

There hasn’t been a better time than the present for mobile workforces, and one device in particular has pushed mobile utilities to the edge of what’s currently possible.

Last week the Inkd offices officially became an all iPhone workforce, with some last late comers finally joining the party. With every new eye’s wide addition to the iPhone posse comes a flurry of recommended tweaks, tailoring, and app suggestions. We thought we might as well put forth this handy list of our favorites from the mobile savvy Inkd team.

Many of these apps are available for both the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Some are free, and others cost a little scratch, but all hit our bar of usefulness. Read on and let us know what apps you’re using too!

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Our friends over in Germany run a nice company called Jimdo and we thought about them recently because Inkd is all about getting started with a print design quickly and easily.  Everyone keeps asking us if we do website templates too.  We don’t but with Jimdo everyone can show his or her interests and passion on the Internet – on his own website! In fact, it’s free and no technical knowledge is required!  The Jimdo founders: Matthias Henze, Fridtjof Detzner, Christian Springub care about design and execution and that’ why we like them.  Our favorite part about Jimdo is that you can juice up your Jimdo Page with widgets from from other partners.  For example, Flickr, YouTube, WidgetBox and more.

If you are a graphic designer or a small business and you need to get a clean, fast site up and running in minutes you should compare Jimdo to other options.  It’s free and you’ll get:

• Unlimited Usage
• Unlimited Pages
• Image Gallery
• Own Layout
• 500MB storage
• Community-Tools
• Access to YouTube,
• MyVideo, Flickr, RSS etc.

The platform is fast and stable and currently hosts over  500.000 sites!  Adding photos and media is very easy, as is administering users and email accounts (you get them with the site). The amount of stuff you get with a Jimdo account is pretty damn good considering it’s free.

If you ever make it over to Hamburg Germany you should drop the guys a line and say hello.  Maybe they’ll buy you coffee or tell you good spots to visit

We found a pretty neat way to see if your favorite user-name is available or taken on all those sites we care most about.  Check out Friendscall.me and figure out if your identity is still available on your favorite sites!  Get moving!