How to host your site on Dropbox. Part 3, or how to share files beautiful
Web Services / / December 24, 2019
If you know what Dropbox, if you tried to share is content of your folders with other people. Sitedrop.com creators decided to make this process more visible. It turned out they are so cool that obtained immediately ready sites. Of course, the result will play the majority of site builder or CMS functionality, but more importantly in sitedrop is the speed and simplicity.
If you know what Dropbox, if you tried to share the contents of your folders with other people. Sitedrop.com creators decided to make this process more visible. It turned out they are so cool that obtained immediately ready sites. Of course, the result will play the majority of site builder or CMS functionality, but more importantly in Sitedrop— This speed and simplicity.
Immediately it is worth mentioning competitors sitedrop.com. About them we have already wrote in 2012. Sitedrop came later, so the design you get a more modern. Firstly, it is adaptive, which means it will look good on all screens; Second, the design of your site is the Flat, that is trendy right now iOS 7 style. The only thing you can replace the design of your site,
— this logo. Everything else in the design can not be changed: Left — menu (the structure of the files in your folder), center — contents, and on the right — comments.When you register you will be able to make as many sites as you want. Under each of them will create its own folder in Dropbox / Sitedrop and domain type IMYa.sitedrop.com. Unfortunately, link your domain is currently impossible.
Settings for each site as follows:
In addition, directly on the site in each folder, you can set the switches sorting files and specify the possibility for users to upload files into their folder.
By the way, about the files. They can be of the following types:
- Text: Files with the extension txt and md will be immediately displayed on the site. In this case, they will be translated into HTML by the rules Markdown markup.
- ImagesAll images can be immediately viewed. And he will make Sitedrop miniatures. Full-size image will be uploaded only when you click on them.
- Audio: You can immediately play right in your browser.
- Video: As well as audio, you can immediately view in the browser. In addition, you can insert webloc with links to Youtube / Vimeo, which will be immediately processed. This is especially convenient for Mac users, while the rest can simply edit webloc-file from the example in any text editor.
- Other materials: In other materials will be displayed just names. And, of course, they can be downloaded and comment, as well as others.
Yet I would also like to mention the service for writing texts using Markdown — this is Dilinger. He immediately shows how your MD-markup will be displayed in HTML.
An important advantage of this online editor is the ability to save / overwrite files directly in Dropbox. It turns easy WYSIWYG-editor for Sitedrop.
Many foreign services can not work with the Cyrillic alphabet, but Sitedrop able. the main thing — to give the files to UTF-8. It is in this format are stored Dilinger'om files, so try to make your website with this bunch. While I have tested Sitedrop, I turned such site.
In conclusion, I will share examples of great websites made using Sitedrop:
- attachment twodots;
- company farmhouse;
- photographer ian Brewer.