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thoughts on using Dropbox for document storage for the web site #7

Open pmuellr opened 11 years ago

pmuellr commented 11 years ago

Thinking about using Dropbox for document storage for the web site.

Would be a lot easier to manage, rather than having to manually update the HTML on the web site.

We could also easily have non-public folders where we can store archives of documents, if we want.

Big downside is that the links are pretty cruddy. It would be a bit problematic, I think, to provide links to individual documents on Dropbox, on a web page, like we currently do in some cases. I don't think this is a huge problem - I mean we CAN add links with crufty URLs if we need to. And in general we can just stop providing links to individual documents, I guess.

I guess we'd also have the ability to share these folders - read-only - so any Band Booster member could link/share them from their own Dropbox account.

winemaker81 commented 11 years ago

My experience with Dropbox has been mostly with my magazine group. We have private folders that are shared.

However, it is possible to use a public folder and either post the URL to that OR post the URL of individual files. I will experiment with that.