How to use Dropbox to add media to your blog

Using Dropbox is a great way to store your stuff on line but you can also use it to link to other media like pdfs, video, audio and stuff that you have made but that Blogger won't handle. It does all the tricky stuff for you. Dropbox is way easier than using Fileden which is a bit of a complicated rigmarole.

The first thing you need to do is got to Dropbox and watch the little introductory video and then download Dropbox to your desktop.
Launch the application and it will put a little icon on your taskbar. When you click on it it will get an option to open a folder. Now you can put stuff in it. You can now go to any computer with Dropbox installed and get your stuff. If you haven't got Dropbox installed (say you are at a friend's place and want to show them something) you can still go to their website- log in- and download your stuff.


My Dropbox has got stuff in it now but it comes standard with a Public Folder- put the stuff you want to link to in that. I have made my Dropbox folder all pretty cos I'm an Apple user but yours will look something like this but without all the pretty colours and the stuff that I've already uploaded.

Once your stuff- a movie, pdf, audio or whatever is in your Public Folder go to the website by clicking on the wee box in your task bar and clicking Launch Dropbox website.

Now click on the public folder to open it.

Find the file that you want to make publicly downloadable on your blog. Click on it to open the little down arrow and copy the public link.

A little box will come up with a web URL so you can share your files on your blog.
Paste this into your blog and make it into a link by highlighting it clicking up to the link button, paste the link into the pop up box and you are there.

Click publish and all people have to do now is to click on your link and they can listen to or download your media.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/879523/Recorder1.mp3

To go one step further you can tidy it up if you like by going into the EDIT HTML tab and put that link in the place of my word link below. Then going back to COMPOSE and publish.

Download link code

I have made a pdf for you to download because when I put the code in the blog post the blog thinks I really want to do it and you can only see the link.

So what your readers will actually see is

Recorder Music

Outstanding!