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This is awesome! Congrats on your launch! I saw your video intro also. I tried to do something similar using Flickr API and Javascript -- to create free Photog
by justboxing 12y ago
This is awesome! Congrats on your launch!
I saw your video intro also. I tried to do something similar using Flickr API and Javascript -- to create free Photographer Portfolio websites using Dropbox for my friend.
Then I abandoned the project few days after we went live because every few days, the site visitor would get a bandwidth exceeded error from Dropbox and the site would not render.
In this context, some questions for you
1) How do you account for Dropbox bandwidth usage exceeding? Esp. if I start using your service, and my post ends up on front page of HN?
2) How do we embed Media, ex: Images and Videos? Is there some convention that a blogger must follow in the markdown posts? Should the media be uploaded to some common folder (like how wordpress has wp-upload folder) or does it reside in a sub-folder?
3) URLs? How are urls handled? Do we have ability to over-ride it?
4) Archives (for SEO) ?
5) PermUrls (for social sharing) ?
6) Sitemaps to submit to google, yahoo etc (for increasing Traffic) ?
Sorry for all the questions, but I am really looking to use Dropbox for blogging and this seems like a great idea! Just trying to make sure some/all my needs are met.
- coppolaemilio 12y agoI would love to see this questions answered!
- dmerfield 12y agoGreat questions! These are definitely things I should address on Blot's website. 1) Blog posts are converted into HTML, stored on my servers, which Blot then serves to people who visit your blog. Dropbox's bandwidth cap won't affect your blog. 2) Currently you can use markdown to embed an external image. In future I want to add a way to embed images that are inside Blot's Dropbox folder. 3) Each blog post is assigned an id. The slug after the ID is for SEO purposes. For example, all these URLs point to the same blog post: http://david.blot.im/37/san-francisco-to-la http://david.blot.im/37/san-francisco-to-la http://david.blot.im/37/foo-bar http://david.blot.im/37/foo-bar http://david.blot.im/37 http://david.blot.im/37 I plan to add a mechanism to override the generated URL slug. 4) Blot automatically generates an archives page for each Blog. See my archive page here: http://david.blot.im/archives http://david.blot.im/archives 5) I don't quite understand this question, did I answer this in #3? 6) Sitemaps are on the to do list!
- justboxing 12y agoMany thanks for answering my questions. Yes You addressed #5 in #3. Looking forward to seeing your updates on the Blot framework. Rock on!!