G'day all Peter's enquiry about cheap web hosting made me think about Dropbox as an option. I don't know if anyone else will find this useful but I've started using it and it works well.
Dropbox is basically an online file storage / file sharing service but it can also be used to host photo galleries and websites. If your ISP is a bit stingy with your free website storage, Dropbox could be just the thing! You install the Dropbox software on your computer and during the installation the software creates a special "My Dropbox" folder. Anything placed in that folder gets automatically uploaded in the background to the Dropbox storage (assuming you have Dropbox running). If, say, you create a web gallery with JAlbum or Lightroom and you copy that gallery into the Dropbox public folder, it gets uploaded and becomes publicly available for viewing. Here's a small, quick and dirty gallery I created with JAlbum and placed in the Dropbox public folder (these are just snapshots of no great interest to PDMLers - it's just for illustrative purposes): http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1370864/album-200609/index.html The 'My Dropbox" folder also contains a "Photos" sub-folder. If you're not fussy about having total control over how a web gallery looks, you can just copy image files into that sub-folder and Dropbox will upload them and create a publicly viewable gallery for you. Here's the Dropbox link: http://www.getdropbox.com/ The free account with Dropbox gets 2GB of ad-free storage. There are paid options to access greater storage but you can develop very large galleries and websites with 2GB! There may be other similar systems but Dropbox is the first one of its type that I've come across. Dropbox runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. It's still at version 0.6 but I've not seen any problems in using it on Win XP and Vista. Now back to our regular programming...... Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
