Looks interesting. I like that it's free, and unlike places like
flicker, you can control the presentation. If not the answer I'm
looking for it looks like part of the answer.
Brian Walters wrote:
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
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/
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