If I host images for my website on google drive, will they stop displaying after a certain number of views of the webpage? I can't find anything in google fair use but I know I've seen pages with broken image links that say things like "this file has been viewed too many times" or similar things.
Don't do it. Google decided a couple of years ago that it didn't want G Drive used in this way.
If you're looking for free website storage, AppEngine has a free tier that will probably suffice.
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I am starting a new career as a developer and I am trying to offer my services to shops in my area for free to use as my portfolio. My question is, is it okay to deploy/hand off a website to my client using google domains and GitHub pages? Since it is the cheapest way to deploy a website?
What is the downside of doing so, or should I just suggest using a hosting site such as Hostgator?
I have created a website that is ready to be handed off.
Here are my thoughts:
For a simple static website that doesn't have server-side scripting (such as PHP, etc.) GitHub pages are a fine route for deploying your website.
Another factor to take into account would be the GitHub pages limits.
No larger than 1 GB
Bandwith limit of 100 GB per month
Limit of 10 builds per hour (excluding custom actions workflows)
Other options
AWS
Google Cloud
Heroku
"I am trying to offer my services to shops in my area for free to use as my portfolio."
Based on this alone, I will tell you that GitHub pages are probably the most ideal way to go for a portfolio. If your website is more complex, however, I would go for one of the options I listed above. Since GitHub pages is free and very easy to use, though, I do recommend it. Say your website grows in complexity and you begin to feel you need more wiggle room/flexibility to control how it's hosted, you can always start using something else.
I would personally, at the very least, use GitHub pages as a starting point for a static site.
I have been developing one Windows Store app for Win 8.1. Is there a way to access the user's OneDrive which is already synced on the hard drive? I need to access it as a StorageFolder. Similarly to KnownFolders and all the libraries. The reason behind that is that I am doing something like a gallery app that displays thumbnails of videos and pictures. When the users decides the app shows the media in full size and if it is a video, it is played. The app counts on the fact that OneDrive automatically syncs all the data, so it does need to be retrieved via the Live SDK API. If I use REST, it will be just too slow. Do you know if there is a way to achieve the mentioned approach effectively or maybe some alternative?
I have been researching extensively, but with no avail.
Thank you!
All the best,
Rosko
As Nate mentioned, you gain access to the folder through the FolderPicker API. There's no direct way to obtain the StorageFolder for that location.
Once you get that StorageFolder and enumerate contents, the extra piece you want to know about is the StorageFile.isAvailable API, as well as StorageFile.getThumbnailAsync/getScaledImageAsThumbnailAsync. The isAvailable flag is what tells you whether a file has actually been downloaded/synced, because the user might have indicated "online only" for any files.
I write about this a bit in Chapter 11 of my free ebook Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, 2nd Edition (page 575, pages 593-597), including a table about how OneDrive availability works with metered networks. This includes using thumbnails.
There's also a talk from //build 2013 on this, "What New in Working with Files" by Marc Wautier, http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Build/2013/2-119. Should answer your OneDrive questions.
I am fairly new to Google Apps Script for something complex like this. I am attempting this small project to investigate and improve my understand of Google Apps Script. I have spent a lot of time off and on on this task. I feel like I'm approaching this task all wrong and I need a some guidance. BTW, the end user is my brother.
Overview:
The end user performs inspections and he takes pictures of issues that he discovered. I would like to create a Google Apps solution that will allow the end user to upload the pictures, make notations, then generate a PDF report to print/email. The solution would allow him to upload his pictures and make notations or provide descriptions.
Problems:
The pictures are high resolution pictures that can be about 5-6 Megabtyes each, but the final report usually does not need this high resolution of pictures. I think I would need to reduce the picture resolution to an appropriate level for the reports.
I would like the end user to be able to perform all the tasks within the custom Google Apps Script workflow solution without having to jump to this, that, or the other application (like using Picasa).
Would I create a UiApp to create a form to use for uploading the pictures and making notations?
Thanks for all the help. Just let me know if I need to provide any more clarification on my request.
Sincerely,
Have you seen this post where I suggest a complete workflow to handle image upload with automatic resize. You should only add a textArea widget to type the comments wich would be a good GAS practice exercise :-)
The post has a couple of links to online demo form , doc and spreadsheet, feel free to have a look, many people have already posted a lot of images of all kind !!
Following your comments - this script does not modify the original file, it would be possible to upload multiple files in one submission, Picasa is probably a good idea, have a look at this tuto to see how to integrate it in gas, have a look also to Romain Vialard and James Ferreira website (easy to find in a google search)
I have been using Google Drive files shared with "View Everybody with Links" to store images that are included in transactional emails (like header images, etc).
I get the links using the SDK, and my links look like:
https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id={somefileId}.
This is basically the technique from Displaying files (e.g. images) stored in Google Drive on a website.
This works... most of the time.
Sometimes I get reports of users not being able to download the images. I cannot figure it out what is going on, but I believe it is that there is a limit on how many concurrent or maybe accumulative requests can be done on a given link and/or user account.
I am looking for documentation that confirms this. My specific question is: does anybody know the quota limits imposed by Google Drive? (if you have a link to official information it would be great).
Thanks.
Same problem for me,
It seems Google drive has limits when sharing files,
I hope this link will be useful,
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2494827?hl=en
The help does not indicate whether the limits are daily, always ....
Regards
Does anyone know of any good tutorials that would show me how to create a sitemap similar to the image below. I can't figure out how to add the different sections underneath like the Your Account, FAQs, etc.
Any help would be extremely helpful. Thank you.
google search for instagram
What you want is what Google calls Sitelinks.
The process is automated and it's not possible right now to create them but you can manage them with the Google's web master tools. The algorithm used by Google to generate them is not public.
You can try this: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/, or just google 'xml sitemap generator'
I remember that what happened (in my 'previous' life, when I had to take care of all the gory details of our company site) I just followed google's recommended seo suggestions. It was painstaking and slow, but over time when we started turning up at the top of sear results, that exactly how google presented us. It pulled relevant information on it's own and created that nice display. Looking at my old codebase I don't even see a sitemap file there. But I do remember using one of those online generators and then hand turning it a bit.