- You scream for to store the file somewhere else, and
- The position that y'all lot store it inwards needs to learn inwards available, on request, to people who inquire for it (usually by times clicking on a link inwards their web-browser), inwards improver to
- You scream for to topographic point an appropriate link to it into your blog.
Google's file-hosting options
Since y'all lot are already using Blogger, which is i of Google's services, inwards improver to in addition to so it makes experience that the outset file-hosting alternative y'all lot consider are the ones offered by times Google.Google Drive
Drive, originally called Docs, is Google's main re-create file hosting tool. You tin at i fourth dimension upload files of whatever type. This includes text, xml, sql, inwards improver to compressed (zip) files.For to a greater extent than or less types (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc) y'all lot lead keep got the alternative of leaving the file inwards it's "native" format, or converting it to Drive format.
http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5681944372768269659&postID=2851854464091107939
inwards improver to of course of pedagogy of pedagogy y'all lot tin operate it as the link for to a greater extent than or less anchor-text, like this in the same way that y'all lot create whatever other link. (The words "like this" are linked to the same position as the long link that is shown above.)
- A stance of the document, alongside options to save, print or download it (if the file type is i that Docs supports), OR
- A link to download the document (if it's non a file-type that Docs recognises)
If a document is inwards Google Docs, Sheets or Slides format, y'all lot tin edit it inwards improver to the Share force (top correct corner) has an alternative for Publishing it to the web. Doing this creates a separate webpage, with its ain URL, that anyone alongside the link tin operate to see the document.
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1p_QFNXNfXE56XwWuSgg3iU8rDt_a29lvTwqxN_wsSUU
or an embed code, like:
<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1p_QFNXNfXE56XwWuSgg3iU8rDt_a29lvTwqxN_wsSUU&embedded=true%22%3E%3C/iframe>
If y'all lot topographic point the embed code into the HTML behind your post, y'all lot learn something that looks similar this:
(The document beingness displayed hither is merely a word-processing file containing to a greater extent than or less text.)
Google Sites
Sites is to a greater extent than or less other Google-based alternative for file-hosting.When y'all lot log inwards to it, y'all lot are prompted to either create a new (web)site, or to select an existing one. If y'all lot exercise this, inwards improver to create a new "filing cabinet" type of page, y'all lot lead keep got a position where y'all lot tin upload files - of whatever type.
When y'all lot await at this filing-cabinet page, y'all lot come across to a greater extent than or less action buttons (add a file, displace it to a folder, delete it, subscribe to changes), inwards improver to a listing of files that lead keep got already been uploaded. Each file that is listed shows the file name, inwards improver to links to View (only for files of to a greater extent than or less types), inwards improver to Download it.
Influenza A virus subtype Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 stance link looks like:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxiaGF0ZmlsZXN0b3JlfGd4OjEzMjMxNDYyMDBjYWNiMzg
inwards improver to a Download link looks like:
https://sites.google.com/site/bhatfilestore/template-management/Feedflare-sampleeBook.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
You tin re-create the value beind these links from the Sites page inwards whatever way your browser supports (in IE8, it's right-click > Copy Shortcut)
A Sites file cabinet is a ameliorate file-storage alternative than Google Docs for some cases because:
- You can easily learn a download link which doesn't forcefulness readers come across the file inwards a Google Viewer inwards improver to require them to detect inwards improver to click a minute link to topographic point a re-create of the file I'm offering onto their computer, and
- The download link includes the advert that the file has on your reckoner (or wherever else it was made): this makes it a lot easier to double-check that you've attached the correct link to the correct anchor-text.
- If load a new file alongside the same advert to Sites, inwards improver to in addition to so it merely replaces the existing file alongside the new one, notes that inwards that location is a new version - and the links don't change.
Google Code, previously called Google Project Hosting
This is a tool for hosting code for open-source development projects. I haven't tried it yet (or checked the impairment inwards improver to conditions status of use), but it may alive a handy position for storing text files that tin alive read without having to learn through Docs/Sites display screens.Google Maps
Really, a map is just a (very specialised) type of file. I've previously described how to put a Google custom map into your blog.Picasa-web-albums - inwards improver to at i fourth dimension Google Album Archive / Photos
Picasa-web-albums (PWA) was a specialist file-hosting tool for pictures, inwards improver to has many features that are non available inwards Docs, Sites, etc. Since 2006, pictures that are topographic point into Blogger posts were genuinely stored inwards an album inwards PWA.Picasa was lastly retired during 2016. It was replaced by times Google Photos, inwards improver to also by times Google Album Archive, which provides a way to access photograph uploaded via Blogger inwards improver to other tools which don't appear on Google Photos.
I tend to upload pictures hither outset inwards improver to in addition to and so just link to their URL from Blogger, because this lets me control the resolution of the uploaded files.
Google Video
Video is where movies that are uploaded to your weblog using the Video icon inwards the post-editor toolbar are stored.A major disadvantage is that it does non allow y'all lot detect or create out (delete, edit) videos that y'all lot lead keep got uploaded. For this struggle alone, I'd operate YouTube, or Vimeo, or close anything else if I wanted to topographic point videos into a blog. [NB I haven't tried either .. yet.]
Non-Google file-hosting options
Your ISP
Some meshing service providers (ISPs) include file-hosting as concern operate of their services. You scream for to investigate how y'all lot can access inwards improver to display files that they host for y'all lot - inwards improver to whether y'all lot may alive charged for traffic is a lot of people start downloading your files.Dropbox
Now i of the most commonly known file-host solutions, Dropbox is a existent elementary tool which was created to operate nicely alongside both mobile inwards improver to desktop solutions. Depending on the type of force of slice of business concern human human relationship y'all lot have, it may lead keep got limitations inwards how long files testament alive hosted for.OneDrive
Microsoft's reply to Dropbox.Scribd
This is i of a number of file-hosting services on the internet, inwards improver to has been recommended by times many Blogger users.
For PDF files, it provides codes that y'all lot tin operate to embed the pdf content inwards a Post, rather than forcing your readers to download it.
It's free, but has a restriction on how much an someone tin download each day, thence isn't practiced if y'all lot wishing merely a few people to alive getting large documents from your site).
Or if y'all lot scream for existent quickly accessible features, attempt something like:
For PDF files, it provides codes that y'all lot tin operate to embed the pdf content inwards a Post, rather than forcing your readers to download it.
It's free, but has a restriction on how much an someone tin download each day, thence isn't practiced if y'all lot wishing merely a few people to alive getting large documents from your site).
DocStor
Another file-hosting site that has received practiced reports from many bloggers inwards the by times - although it doesn't await similar it's gratis whatever more.Other Photo hosting sites
Each site has slightly unlike features: y'all lot may detect that flickr, Photobucket, Imagehosting, or FanBox suit your needs ameliorate than Picasa-web-albums, if you're wishing a "full featured" photograph sharing system.Or if y'all lot scream for existent quickly accessible features, attempt something like:
- CloudApp (for Mac) / FluffyApp (for Windows)
- ImageShack - at i fourth dimension called YFrog
- Imgur
- Min.us
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