Website Sustainability

In an earlier blog entry the use of the public folder within a dropbox account was discussed as a way of hosting a website. Dropbox is a fanatastic tool, it provides an easy and free way of moving a site if you are happy to have static content. So for rescuing a site this is a great tool. I have found a few problems, which is not surprising as it is being used in a way it was not designed for, - You can add google analytic s to it, but it is difficult to (I have found a way yet) of adding a Webmaster profile to it though. -Similar problem with Bing Webmaster toolbox you can add a profile but not a sitemap. So it will allow verification of the site through meta-tags. Survey about this material can be found at:  http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=67775a0a-336f-45a5-a222-2f1a6615752c  please feel free to fill it in or  http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=cec22f0a-e467-4c15-a319-74d96bb8ed9d

The aim of this project is to transfer the website of the East Midlands Knowledge Network ( http://www.emkn.org.uk/ ) to the free web creation and web hosting service – Google Sites, in order to save the useful resources and make them available after the original web site is closed. Google Sites is a free tool to quickly create and publish web pages and it is available under: https://sites.google.com/ . In order to use the service, it is required to have a Google Account which is also free. Since I have both Google Account and a little experience in creating Google Sites (I set up a website for my maths group project, 2 years ago) I thought that the task would be fairly easy. The EMKN original website looks nice and modern, but it is made only with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. All the data is static and there is no database or server-side scripting behind the website. Setting up the page is very quick, the user just needs to fill in a form where they choose properties of the website, suc...