Sharing a story in on a Squarespace website

Sep 17, 2015

I had a difficult time figuring this out, and though it might be helpful to share what I have learned.

You can upload a story to Google Drive, and then use a link to Google Drive to share on Squarespace.

Uploading to Google Drive: https://community.articulate.com/articles/how-to-share-your-e-learning-course-for-free-with-google-drive When you have completed this, you should have a url for your story that begins with http://googledrive.com/host/

Once you have the link, go to the Squarespace page where you want to share your story. You can then create a link to your story from either text or an image. If you are linking from text, you just highlight the text and click the link icon. If you link from an image, add the url in the "Clickthrough URL" box.

13 Replies

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

over 8 years ago09/18/15 at 1:59 pm (UTC)

Thanks for sharing this here Coral! Folks are always looking for new ways to share and it's great to have new ideas available here.

Paige Wilcoxson

over 8 years ago10/06/15 at 5:55 am (UTC)

Thanks for posting this. I followed the instructions, but SquareSpace says that the link cannot be embedded. I am wondering if you have any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks!

Paige

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

over 8 years ago10/06/15 at 1:43 pm (UTC)

Hi Paige,

Just in case Coral isn't subscribed to this thread you may want to send a message using the "contact me" button from Coral's profile. I'm not familiar with SquareSpace and what options they allow for links.

over 7 years ago11/28/16 at 2:42 pm (UTC)

Hey Paige, did you ever figure this out?

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

over 7 years ago11/28/16 at 6:09 pm (UTC)

Hi Fraser,

You may want to reach out to Paige directly as I mentioned to her earlier, as I'm not certain that she's subscribed any longer. You can use the "contact me" button on her profile if it's enabled.

Lu Gao

over 5 years ago08/31/18 at 2:08 pm (UTC)

This is outdated, as Google Drive does not allow hosting anymore.

Hadim Deputy

over 5 years ago09/15/18 at 11:17 pm (UTC)

I wanted to share about posting your Storyline project link into a Squarespace website. Lu is right, Google drive doesn't store your projects anymore. After getting a Squarespace account, I also got some data storage with Amazon s3 by registering for an account. So far, that's been free. I also downloaded Cloudberry for free. This sounds complicated but Tom Kuhlmann made an excellent video on how to do this: How to Create Amazon S3 Account to Upload Course or Websites. Once on Squarespace, I posted a thumb of my Storyline project as an image, and Squarespace allowed me to write some text underneath it and put in a link to my project. I got the link from Amazon s3.

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Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

over 5 years ago09/17/18 at 11:44 am (UTC)

Nice, Melissa thanks for sharing that here!

Lu Gao

over 5 years ago09/17/18 at 2:36 pm (UTC)

Thanks, this is helpful, however the video doesn't speak specifically to how to connect the new AWS bucket domain to Squarespace. Any ideas?

Lu Gao

over 5 years ago09/17/18 at 2:52 pm (UTC)

Ok, I figured it out. You need to add an "Embed" block to the Squarespace page with the following:

Hope that's helpful!

Hadim Deputy

over 5 years ago09/17/18 at 3:19 pm (UTC)

Hey Lu, Thanks for the solution! Honestly, all I did was click the "link" symbol under my picture and copy and paste the link that Amazon s3 gave me. I guess there are many ways to do it. Thanks for sharing!