Squarespace and Pano2VR

[CRygier]

Hi,
i have a squarespace created site, and I wanted to add in virtual tours onto it. Does anyone have any experience with the best way to do this?

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[360Texas]

Not heard of Squarespace before. Do you have an URL address we can visit.

[CRygier]

my website is: hireconrad.com

squarespace's website is squarespace.com

[zap]

I suggest you put in some panorama image thumbnails which link to your panorama html's.
It's really straightforward.

There is also an alternative way (I'll pm)

[CRygier]

The problem is that with squarespace there is nowhere to place external html files or image files. They dont act as a traditional host where i can connect using a ftp client and send files over.

[Tony]

I'm also on Squarespace, 5 & 6, but I also have access to another server where I post my panorama files. In my blog on Squarespace 6 I use a code block in my blog and use an iFrame to reference the files from my server. Unfortunately you are going to have to find a location to host your files.

You can see the result at http://tonyredhead.com/blog/the-great-ocean-road.

Tony

[Tony]

I just finalised a workflow for my panoramas on Squarespace, with delivery via HTML5 to iPad, iPhone and Nexus 7 with Flash fallback for those who have it. Very happy with the results, you can see the blog here http://bit.ly/1bNRqcL and the results here http://bit.ly/1alTZ7P (Note: it requires a server to host the files and uses an iFrame to embed in the blog post)

[JezUK]

Thanks Tony for this information and especially for the blog.

This is exactly where I'm at right now - needing to design a website with the ability to place Pano2VR and Object2VR's on there....

Wonderful news.

Kindest regards,

Jez

[bellevuefineart]

I too would like to know how to embed a tour on a squarespace website. I am capable of hosting the tour on my own website, but need to know how to embed it. The blog mentioned in this thread is gone, as are all references to how to do it.

thanks

Scott

[bellevuefineart]

I too would like to know how to embed a tour on a squarespace website. I am capable of hosting the tour on my own website, but need to know how to embed it. The blog mentioned in this thread is gone, as are all references to how to do it.

thanks

Scott

Do the admins here at Gnome read the forums? I'm sort of disappointed that this has gone unanswered for 9 day now. I'll try and figure it out on my own.

[Hopki]

Hi bellevuefineart,
Pano2VR outputs all the files needed to display on a website in one folder, the default name for this folder is output.
So to display this on a website it needs to be uploaded.

Also please understand there are many host providers and website, we can not know how to upload to then all without spending time doing so.
Your best advice is rather asking here about Squarespace, ask the question at Squarespace, or even better ask the question in a Squarespace forum.

We have provided solutions for CMS website as these are quite difficult to deal with but then only the most popular.
Any how reading this post I see one quote:

there is nowhere to place external html files or image files

So this says you have to upload the files to a different server or same server using FTP bypassing the Squarespace website.

Once uploaded I assume you can use an iFrame to embed the HTML page from the output folder into your own page.
You would use something like this:

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<iframe src="http://hosting.com/output/pano.html" name="panorama" width="640" height="480" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" style="float:left; margin-left:0px" allowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true"></iframe>

You will see in the above code the src is pointing to the pano as uploaded to a website.

I Googled Squarespace and Iframe and found this page.
Even this does not look that straightforward.
I see Tony has got it working, but had to use a separate hosting:

I'm also on Squarespace, 5 & 6, but I also have access to another server where I post my panorama files. In my blog on Squarespace 6 I use a code block in my blog and use an iFrame to reference the files from my server. Unfortunately you are going to have to find a location to host your files.

I hope this shines some light on this and my apologies for not being able to just give you the answer, but as you can see to display on Squarespace is not that straightforward.

Regards,
Hopki