Website Sustainability

Is Leaflet a better tool than Google Maps? | netmag | Creative Bloq :  "If you need to embed a map into your project, you could be forgiven for thinking Google Maps is your only choice. It's used by over 2 million sites and it's a proven technology, having been launched in 2005. There's however an alternative – Leaflet. It's is an open source JavaScript library that provides mapping capabilities. It was developed by Vladimir Agafonkin, it launched in 2010 and is used by over 20,000 sites." To read more go to:  http://www.creativebloq.com/web-design/leaflet-google-maps-121413738

As a break from the usual posts here is a question: Can Google App Engine be an alternative way to produce sustainable web solutions? I would be interest to read your comments on this. Could static content be transfered across and extra interactivity missing from some of the other solutions in this blog be added through programming/scripting?

The currently free Dropbox   provides an alternative place to store a website. But only if we talking about static content (ie. content which is not changed dynamically by PHP, etc but is basically HTML). Dropbox provides a public folder which can be view by one with the appropriate link. First we need to copy the site, so we have local copy on our own machine. This can be done using the method as an example shown in  the earlier blog entry Caught it . Next, we need a Dropbox account. Go to www.dropbox.com and you should see the following: Click on the download button and follow the instructions. You will need an email address. We actually on need the Typical setting. This will add a piece of software to machine. With a little box icon at the bottom of your screen, if we click on this we see the files and folders in the dropbox, open the public folder, now.transfer files over to public folder Go to the dropbox website and log-in Then do Step 2...