![]() ![]() It doesn’t cost that much and then you have complete control over your brand and you’re not at the whim of those free services that may or may not be available at a future date.If you are one of the 300 million people who use Dropbox, you know that it’s an incredibly useful tool for cloud-based file storage. Personally, I think it’s worthwhile to create a custom domain and manage the demos and courses that way. Odds are they’ll be gone or remove the free part of the service and you’ll be in the same place you are today. Those website services often don’t have a file/folder upload feature. You need a place to host the courses files and create a link. They are good services for websites, but sharing files isn’t easy. Can you upload your course? A lot of people use Wix and Weebly type services for their portfolios.A domain name and hosting may cost about $50/year. ![]() Buy your own domain and manage it yourself.Here’s how to set up the Amazon S3 service. In a previous post, I shared a few alternatives. That means if you shared a demo in previous challenges (or if you were using Dropbox as a free way to feature your portfolio of courses) all of those links will be broken. But the bigger bummer is that all of that content shared by the community will no longer work. It’s a bummer that the service is being discontinued. In fact, we have close to 4,000 weekly challenge entries in our weekly elearning challenges and at least 20% are shared via Google Drive or Dropbox. Many people in the elearning community currently share their courses via Dropbox. If you’re a Dropbox user you probably already received an email from Dropbox alerting you to this change. This is similar to the action Google took last month to disable webpage sharing via the Google Docs service. It’s one that many have been using to share their courses and elearning portfolios. Effective October 3, 2016, Dropbox is disabling the feature to render HTML pages. You need to stop sharing your elearning courses and portfolios using Dropbox’s public folder. ![]()
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