You can make simple web pages that are instantly published online leveraging the power of free easy cloud tools dropbox, pancake.io, and markdown. Here’s an example: Changed My Delicious Styling. Get ‘em installed and you’ll be making quick little pages live in 5 min. You can use HTML, but using markdown (a ‘simplified HTML’), is just so quick and easy.
The Tools
- dropbox syncs a folder on your computer to the cloud
- pancake.io publishes files in a dropbox folder to web pages
- MarkdownPad (Win) or Mou (Mac) lets you instantly see markdown
- Handy markdown reference or one-page PDF cheatsheet
Just 3 Steps
- Download apps and create pancake.io account
- Open your Dropbox\Apps\Pancake.io folder and create a new .md markdown file using the editor
- Go to you pancake.io account, click the file, and grab the URL. that’s it
Site44 allows you to sync a Dropbox folder with a Site44 website. Add a new HTML file in the folder, and a minute later, you can hit that page on your website. They had a Dropbox credential issue a couple of months back but have solved it. On the back-end Site44 uses AWS.
Nice find, thanks Scott, I’ll have to check that out. Looks like they have a focus on separate websites where pancake.io is on quick pages w built-in markdown rendering. It’ll be interesting to see who implements this dropbox publishing workflow for like node.js sites or similar.