As you may know, I have a modest little website. Yet, in my efforts to get it up to par, I've hit a bit of a snag concerning disk space with the free hosting on Tripod where it is housed. They only give me 20MB of space for my files unless I upgrade to a better plan which will cost me standard monthly net fees that I'm just not willing to pay right now. And I've already used half of that space and can see that there's no way that I can put everything that I want in with such a small amount of file space. So, my question is, is there any way that I could find another online server that is preferably free of charge with more space that I could hold my files on and then link them to my website?

I haven't been posting my own site for a while or looking into these things in much depth but there's a bunch of sites like www.free-webhosts.com/ which appear to point you in the direction of free hosting with more MBs.

Check out google as well
www.google.com/sites/h...rview.html

they offer up 20 GIG... and a Content Management System to keep it running...

Plus they have gadgets that can tie into your Google online pics if you have a picasa account...

As most of you know I not only design websites but I host them to!!! Graphicmouse has a disk space of 300 megs and even with all the art being loaded in large files plus a whole bunch of stuff you all don't see in the back door area (such as the old graphicmouse site before this one), this site has only used 100 megs so far. I have business sites that run a lot on just 50 megs, so I really can not understand with a 20 meg site how you can be running out of disk space.

Maybe Tripod just sucks Morgan. It's just that a few days ago I hadn't used hardly any space, but as soon as I started adding more graphics to the site it jumped from about only 1 or 2 MB to 10.1 where it stands right now. It doesn't make much sense to me either. Thanks for the imput everyone. I've got quite a few good ideas for options now. I'm sure to figure out something that works for me.

Yeah I agree with Morgan. 20 mgs of space should be plenty for what you have to offer. Unicornweb initially ran on 25mgs of space and everybody knows the amount of content we have there.

Maybe your files are not optimized for the web ... ?

Well, some are and some aren't, but even the ones that I didn't optimize didn't really take up that much memory space. However, what I've done is that I've taken all my images except for ten pdf files off of the file server at Tripod and put those other images on ImageShack and put in the html code to link to the files there. It freed up 1MB. So, that means that it's those pdfs that are taking up all my space even though I reduced the file size on those also! Now I just need to see if I can put those pdf files on ImageShack as well.

Admittedly I don't use PDF files much for web work myself and I think it's probably the optimal way to translate the (already) printed page to the web, STILL I'd be willing to bet if you took the time to translate those page formats to straight HTML that you'd cut your memory space (at least) in half!

I wouldn't even know how to go about doing that Pijon. As it seems like a lot of work just to translate pdfs into web pages. It sounds like I'd have to try to reacreate all the elements on the page as far as text and images to mimick what was already done. Besides, the pdf's are my work, but work that I've done for the paper that I work for. So, I probably shouldn't go messing with trying to recreate what I've done for them. Heck, I turn those same pdf pages into my company every week for them to post an archive of the papers on the company website and they just post the pdf files themselves. The only other thing that I can think of is to perhaps instead of having them as pdfs is to have them as jpgs and post them that way.

hey doesn't microsoft word come with a webpage editing program that allows you to create webpages straight from word documents..i think once created it translates the documents to html format.

It does, but there are 2 problems with it. 1. Is that it adds a bunch of code that isn't neccessary and difficult to weed out. 2. My pdfs are translated Quark documents with text and images which aren't compatible in word. Now, Quark 6.5 which I'm using at work has an export html function, but it's grayed out and I tried clicking on various text and images to no avail, it stays gray and does nothing. So, I'm not sure what that function is even for and I'm not allowed to mess with the prefrences to activate it if I even wanted to. I have a much lower version at home (4) and it's PC so probably not even compatible, and probably doesn't even have the same function. So, I'm pretty much stuck just translating the files to pdfs and posting them online that way.

This has nothing to do with Paul's dilema, but I too have an issue that I am having trouble resolving. I have been working on my ULTRA Conflict graphic novel and pretty close to completion. I have put together a series of preview pages that i would like to showcase [5 complete pages in all]. However rather than post the pages individually at various websites i would like to put the entire preview together in Adobe for download from UC web and a few other places. The thing is however when I tranfer the images to PDF's I can only package one single page rather than put them all together in one. Any ideas?

Star - send me the individual PDFS - I'll bundle it up for you..

DP - Do you have Adobe Photoshop? depending on the version it can open PDF's and save out to other formats....