Yes, you're grandfathered -- anyone who got a free Dropbox account before the change still has their Public folder, but new free accounts don't have one.

eb

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Eliza Bettinger
Digital Geo-Information Specialist
American Geographical Society Library
UW-Milwaukee
Milwaukee WI USA
414-229-6282

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From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Joel Marchesoni <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 10:17 AM
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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

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eliza Carrie Bettinger
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 10:25
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Unfortunately, "Public" folders are no longer included in new free Dropbox accounts -- if you want that feature you need a paid plan.

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Eliza Bettinger
Digital Geo-Information Specialist
American Geographical Society Library
UW-Milwaukee
Milwaukee WI USA
414-229-6282

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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
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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
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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]>
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> 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
>