Not a document. A journey.
A ScrollStory is what happens when you treat a webpage not as a document but as a designed experience. As readers scroll, backgrounds shift, images emerge, and text appears in rhythm with the narrative. The design decisions—pacing, scale, visual rhythm, contrast—shape how your audience encounters your argument. It’s not just reading. It’s moving through a story.
ScrollStories are built on the same open-source platform as all our websites, which means your story, your images, and your design choices live in files you own—not locked inside a proprietary database. They work on any device, cost nothing to host, and will still be online years from now.
You don’t need to be a designer or a developer to build one. If you can write in Markdown and choose images that matter, you can create a ScrollStory. We provide the templates, you bring the narrative, and AI helps smooth over technical bumps.
Why Amaranth?
From Greek mythology to Aztec sacred rituals to modern superweeds, the amaranth plant embodies the contradictions at the heart of digital humanities work.
Mesa Vista Hall
A demo scrollstory with images from the history of the building that was once a dormitory and now houses many different types of university office, including the History Department.
A Cultural History of Arkham Asylum
Deep scrollstory with many images, demonstrating how visual analysis and narrative layering explore complex cultural history
Sugar, Emeralds, and Unicorn Horn
A more beginner-level scrollstory that includes several images but lacks the immersive layering in the other examples.