I use SquareSpace for my blog hosting. It is a great service and I highly recommend it. I also use BBEdit for writing my blog posts in Markdown. The one thing about SquareSpace that I don’t like is the inability to push images up to the site via FTP. The only way I can store images on the site is to use the File Management tool which requires a lot of extra steps.
I have decided to try using Dropbox to host my blog post images. I already have a paid Dropbox account so using it for image storage seems like a “no-brainer”. Images simply need to be stored in the Public folder and then you need to grab a link to the image from either the desktop client (on the Mac you control click on the file and select “Copy Public Link”)
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I’m not sure I will make this a permanent procedure, but I am sure interested in trying it out. Word is out that the new version 6 of SquareSpace is coming soon and will have some awesome features!
great solution. I have been doing something similar for a while. We have a series of webinars that we syndicate as a podcast through the iTunes music store. We use a Squarespace journal page to post the entries and generate the feed for iTunes, but all of the actual mp4 video files (~200mb) each are in a folder in my Public folder in Dropbox. We have a few giga bytes of video that is all being served from the Dropbox public folder.