The angels have come down from heaven and finally blessed us with Read Me Pages.
“Read Me Pages?” you ask. “What the heck are you talking about Holly?! Have you gone mad!”
“Nope, I’ve gone happy!” I exclaim.
So that’s the conversation I figure we would have if I was talking with you IRL instead of jovially clicking my heals fingers along the keyboard.
One of the main reasons I started this website was to have a better way of viewing all the Squarespace themes and templates in one place. My goal was to eventually include other stats that make each version unique along with the strengths and weaknesses of each template depending on the type of website needed. Fortunately, Squarespace is now making that much easier.
Amelie Readme Page
I’m not sure if you have noticed yet, but Squarespace has started including read-me pages on some of their v6 demo sites. Hopefully, they will eventually get to all of them, but here are the ones I’ve found so far.
UPDATE 7/26: I’ve now created a Squarespace 6 Template Tool of sorts that makes the selection process a bit easier (I hope!). You can sort by designer, type of template, as well as quick links to all the read-me pages and demo sites. You can find it on the Squarespace 6 Template Directory page. (newly added read-me pages include metro, jensen, and frontrow)
- Jirick – http://jirick-demo.squarespace.com/readme/
- Amelie – http://amelie-demo.squarespace.com/read-me/
- Peak – http://peak-demo.squarespace.com/read-me/
- Minsk – http://minsk-demo.squarespace.com/read-me/
- Wells – http://wells-demo.squarespace.com/read-me/
- Qubert – http://qubert-demo.squarespace.com/read-me/
- Faye- http://faye-demo.squarespace.com/read-me/
- Flatiron – http://flatiron-demo.squarespace.com/read-me/
- Ishimoto- http://ishimoto-demo.squarespace.com/read-me/
- Native – http://native-demo.squarespace.com/read-me/
- Takk – http://takk-demo.squarespace.com/read-me/
Squarespace v6 Template Tool
The purpose of this table is to help you find the best template for your needs. You can sort the Squarespace 6 Theme Helper by Artist , Name, or Type (eg Blog). Links will take you to the example template website or the "Read Me" page which highlights the unique features of each template. (not all themes have a read-me file so I'll update the table as they are available) I've labeled 'Peak' as "Other" because it doesn't show up as a blog or portfolio when using the filter option from the template chooser. I have more data to add, so check back often! 
I’ve been a longtime proponent of SS and its awesome user experience, but I have to say I’m a bit disappointed in the templates for V6. It’s like they built an amazing back-end infrastructure but removed many (most?) of the finer controls that came standard with V5. As I started exploring the templates I kept finding small things that made me shake my head, like a lack of controls over individual block colors and spacing, lack of sidebars, inability to remove my Twitter avatar from a Twitter block, etc.
I’ve been in touch with SS support and they’ve been great, as usual, but I can’t help but feel that for a product as awesome as SS that they took a small step back instead of a big jump forward. Anyway, I know work will continue and I hope to see some of these problems addressed in the future.
I completely understand Greg. I’m just guessing, but I think someone finally made an executive decision that it was more important to “ship” than to wait for a perfect and complete toolset (which is what squarespace is so well known for). The iterations over the last couple of weeks are being implemented at a much faster pace than during Beta. Hopefully with the public launch (hehem… and paying customers), we should see much faster fixes for bugs as well as feature releases. If you read some of my previous posts, I think you’ll find I can be just a big a critic as a fan of SS. I’m continually checking out other platforms similar to ss and I can say 100%, none of them match squarespace’s thorough approach to design, usability, rock solid hosting, and customer service. From their attention to detail to their understanding of the “Big Picture”, sets them apart from the others. I think we all just wish it happened at a faster pace
I would definitely recommend using something like Jing (free) and take screenshots of as many issues, bugs, or changes you would like fixed and then send the images/link to the support team. ( I just suggest jing because you can save it immediately to the cloud and it automatically copy’s the link to your clipboard for faster communication).