[nabs-l] Web site and cloud question

[Kaiti Shelton]

Hi all,

To reiterate what I said in my first email, I need the actual files to
be accessible from my site.  Putting a link to another blog would be
redundant, and look really tacky as it would not be uniform with the
rest of my web site.  This is one of those projects where visual
representation is everything.

Tyler, what you mentioned would be preferable, but I was trying to go
the cloud route because I'm using a free web site tool which doesn't
support file storage unless you pay for the full version.  As a
college student, if I can go professional and free to low-cost, I
will.

Bobby, Does Scribd cost anything?  That sounds exactly like the thing
I'm looking for.  I'm using Wix right now because that's the site
builder everyone was told to use, but if it's giving me trouble with
meeting requirements I might just switch to wordpress or something,
which I think is more accessible anyway.

On 10/9/13, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:
> Hello:
> I'd recommend skipping dropbox--it's actually stated in the tos that you
> don't use itt as a CDN. Instead, just host the files on your website. If
> you want most websites allow you to just show a big folder of files, so
> you can have a reports folder and you can just link directly to that.
>
> HTH,On 10/9/2013 1:40 AM, Kaiti Shelton wrote:
>> Hi NABS,
>>
>> I could be totally ignorant here, but I have a question about what I
>> might be able to do using DropBox as a place to store files for my web
>> site.  I am required to maintain a professional web site for marketing
>> purposes and am graded on it once a semester in my jurries, (AKA,
>> music major exams).  One of the requirements for a larger exam meant
>> to see if I have been making adequate progress that I'll have to take
>> in early march is to put any analytical papers about pieces I've
>> listened to or performances I've attended on my site.
>>
>> Pasting the text of these papers into the text boxes will look really
>> tacky, not to mention less academic.  I was thinking of putting a link
>> to a dropbox folder on the site with instructing viewers to click on
>> it to access the files.  E.G, Click the link below to access Kaiti's
>> Performance Reports and Listening Logs:  Dropbox link to a folder
>> entitled "Reports".
>>
>> The last time I coppied a link to a folder the link did not work
>> propperly.  I put it in an email so I could share music with two
>> people, and the second person to get the email was not able to access
>> the link because it died after the first person used it.  I need the
>> link to stay live for many uses, as several professors will be looking
>> at it in this one exam and will look at it again in the future.  Once
>> it is up there, I'd rather not deal with changing the link if I don't
>> have to and just add files to the folder as needed.
>>
>> So, I'm wondering what did I do wrong?  Should it work fine?  Is there
>> anything I need to specifically do to make this happen?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice.
>>
>
>
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Kaiti