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I've used https://divshot.com/ to host a quick static site for free. It looks like they do more than that even. -- Tommy Keswick, MLIS Drupal Developer The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com/about/tommy-keswick On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Joel Marchesoni <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I've never paid a dime for Dropbox (although I probably should at this > point) and I've still got a public folder. Maybe I'm just grandfathered in? > > Joel > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Eliza Carrie Bettinger > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 10:25 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] looking for free hosting for html code > > Unfortunately, "Public" folders are no longer included in new free Dropbox > accounts -- if you want that feature you need a paid plan. > > -- > Eliza Bettinger > Digital Geo-Information Specialist > American Geographical Society Library > UW-Milwaukee > Milwaukee WI USA > 414-229-6282 > > ________________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Joel > Marchesoni <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 8:48 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] looking for free hosting for html code > > +1 for Dropbox, I use it a lot for prototyping pages. As long as the code > is client-side (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) it works beautifully. As a bonus you > don't have to do any uploading, just let it sync. It's easiest to just put > it in the "Public" folder, that way you don't need to worry about setting > up sharing on other folders. > > Joel Marchesoni > Tech Support Analyst > Hunter Library, Western Carolina University http://library.wcu.edu/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Charlie Morris > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 09:14 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] looking for free hosting for html code > > I've never done this, but I've heard you can use DropBox in an unofficial > capacity to host basic pages too: > http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/host-websites-with-dropbox > > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Joe Hourcle < > [log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 May 2015, Sarles Patricia (18K500) wrote: > > > > [trimmed] > > > > I plan to teach coding to my 6th and 12th grade students next school > > year > >> and our lab has a mixture of old (2008) and new Macs (2015) so I want > >> to make all the Macs functional for writing code in an editor. > >> > >> My next question is this: > >> > >> I am familiar with free Web creation and hosting sites like Weebly, > >> Wix, Google sites, Wikispaces, WordPress, and Blogger, but do you > >> know of any free hosting sites that will allow you to plug in your > >> own code. i.e. host your own html files? > >> > > > > If it's straight HTML, and doesn't need any sort of text > > pre-processing (SSI, ASP, JSP, PHP, ColdFusion, etc.), I think that > > you can use Google Drive. This help page seems to suggest that's true: > > > > https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2881970?hl=en > > > > With all static files it might also be possible to lay things out so > > that you could serve it through github or similar. (and teaching them > > about version control isn't a bad idea, either) > > > > -Joe > > >