Cool idea. Homepage needs tweaked for iPad. Content pushed to absolute edges with 0 margin.
Thanks. We'll take a look.
Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites
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Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. Site44 only uses Dropbox for the sync, then serves out the site over its own infrastructure.
Very interesting idea! This is really smart and handy for small business or blogs. I wonder what Dropbox thinks of this idea.. maybe they should incorporate it into their own service?
Hi, I'm one of Site44's founders. Dropbox has been quite supportive in helping us to use their API. If you're curious how we interact with Dropbox, read our guest post on their developer blog: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/23.
Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites
#53This is already possible through the public folder function on Dropbox. You can still turn it on in Dropbox if you don't have it.
There is a post above by a guy who makes a significant case that dropbox will eventually shut you off for such usage patterns. -- Also, can you use your own domain that way?
Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites
#54How do you make a website that is 100% client side? Where is the SQL, PHP? I am not sure I know who this for...
Tons of people make websites without SQL or a server side language.
Here's a list of static website generators:
http://iwantmyname.com/blog/2011/02/list-static-website-gene...
My personal site is just a couple html files.
Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites
#55Sounds very useful, but can't you just put pages in your public folder?
The public folders are going away
Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites
#56I give site44 a few weeks before they have to stop. DropBox, unless they have changed in the last ~6 months, won't let you do this. I'm not sure if it's in their TOS anymore since they went through the whole TOS fiasco a while back, but I've tried this and been shut down. I'm not known on the Internet at all. I have perhaps 30 friends in Facebook. I had a Wordpress blog and grabbed an image I had sitting in DropBox a…
Hi, I'm one of Site44's founders. We've been running for about six months now and have thousands of users, and Dropbox has helped us with our API use since the beginning. Yes, the OP (www.site44.com) is hosted on Site44. Here's a guest post on the Dropbox developer blog about how we use their API: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/23 Perhaps your confusion is that you assume we're using Dropbox public folders o…
Yep, my bad, I didn't notice you were sucking the site up and hosting it yourself, I thought you found a crafty way to service dropbox through the OS over the users local port. My mistake.
Great idea and good luck.
Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites
#57You should have a clear link to pricing in the front page. Now it's hidden behind "learn more".
Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites
#58Any examples anyone can show? I'd be interested to see how these pages perform.
www.site44.com itself is hosted on Site44. My blog is too ( http://blog.smarx.com ). Be careful when testing performance... browser refreshes trigger us going back to Dropbox to look for changes to files, so they're considerably slower than just navigating around a site (where we typically serve pages from an in-memory cache). EDIT: Forgot to mention I'm one of the founders of Planet Rational (the company that made t…
Are you using the /delta API? https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/15
Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites
#59I love it! Works like charm for small projects, for example I've built a simple private app that is both hosted on Dropbox (thru Site44) and uses Dropbox as DB (thru API), so everything is in one "box" which makes working on it really pleasant :)
Re: Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites
#60I would probably use this if PHP were enabled.