Website Sustainability

Google Apps update alerts: Deprecating web hosting support in Google Drive : "Beginning August 31, 2015, web hosting in Google Drive for users and developers will be deprecated. Google Apps customers can continue to use this feature for a period of one year until August 31, 2016, when serving content via googledrive.com/host/doc id will be discontinued. In the time since web hosting in Drive was launched, a wide variety of public web content hosting services have emerged, and we think better options are available to people today. As a result, we have decided to discontinue this feature and focus on the core Drive and Google Apps experience. " To read more go  Google Apps update alerts: Deprecating web hosting support in Google Drive : 'via Blog this' All opinions in this blog are the Author's and should not in any way be seen as reflecting the views of any organisation the Author has any association with.

▶ How to build a website in 15 minutes with Weebly - YouTube : Another good video about using Weebly by Kate Russell 'via Blog this'

▶ How To Build A Website Free With Weebly - YouTube : " " I found this interesting and useful. 'via Blog this'

Previously in this blog I looked at Dropbox as a tool for web-hosting . I recently came across this link  How To Host a Simple Website Using Dropbox : a few tools to take this further. Personally, I haven't played with them so I am not sure how good they are; but the posting is interesting -  http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-host-a-dropbox-website/ If you do try them out please let me know if they are any good. Related Dropbox (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/alternative-hosting-approach-1-dropbox.html )  Google Sites (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/google-sites-for-sustainability-week-3.html  ) Hosting options: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/hosting-how-to-get-it-out-there-for.html Free tools: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-best-free-tools-for-website.html Amazon S3 (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/thoughts-about-using-ama...

Click on the following to read more  seo for free web sites- Does using free webhosting affect a site's search ranking? - Webmasters Stack Exchange Related postings: Search Engine Optimisation for sustainability: Images SEO: Keywords, description, title 'via Blog this'

Can Skydrive ( https:// skydrive .live.com/ ‎ ) be used like GoogleDrive and Dropbox as a free hosting option? The short answer at the time of writing it doesn't seem possible, in the future who knows? You can share files and even embed them in blogs, etc but shared HTML files, at the moment, just get downloaded. There is a interesting forum post about this topic at  http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/skydrive-files/host-web-site-using-skydrive/593fb442-3858-45d8-8a47-94c5142693a9?msgId=94d3f528-63ed-4d35-9699-78336ae04c04

As an example of the ideas of web sustainability can be used for local and small charities: Hartwell Home and Garden Produce Show - a village produce show run entirely by volunteers:  http://hartwellproduceshow.weebly.com/ Principles - Free web hosting; - Easy to implement and relatively quick to produce; - Web skills are likely to be basic - no HTML knowledge - Easy to maintain - it must be relatively easy to give control of the site when or if the original person leaves. For more information on the tools being used:  http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/hosting-how-to-get-it-out-there-for.html