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A fresh approach to receiving files on your site
Just grab some html to get an upload form that looks like your site. More features
After looking at a whole bunch of web sites, we realized that receiving large files is a pain in the neck.
We've seen pages and pages of instructions on how to login to FTP servers.
Or long-winded instructions on how to use other off-site services to transfer large files. We thought - woah - that's got to be pretty frustrating.
That's when we came up with uploadthingy - a simple solution to a pretty big problem.
Just copy and paste some html code on a web page and presto - you've made everyone's life a lot easier.
Try it out! It's easy for you - and most of all - it's easy for your customers and partners.
What are people saying?
- Brian says: "I am a Web Designer and uploadthingy has saved me a ton of time and work! Now my customers can upload content to me FAST without having to learn to use an FTP client. Thank you so much!!!"
- Alex says: "Your tool is fast becoming a major asset to our site architecture thanks!"
- Sam says: "This is exactly what I was looking for. I run a digital dance label and this is perfect for my artist to send me their projects. Fantastic!"
- Cody says: "This application is awesome. Keep up the great work."
- Nathan says: " Wow this is great. This will work great with our www.qkardz.com Full Color Printing Website. Thanks"
- John says: "Your upload tool is awesome. I was using sendspace which worked but with your tool I made it look like the rest of my website."
- MikeD says: "Hey Chris... Thanks again for your quick response to my question. Customer service at its best!"
- Ray says: "Your upload tool is very good we have a Full Color Printing company that was improved by your tool, thanks guys if you need me anytime www.NYCprinting123.com"
- Jeremy says: "SWEEEETTT"
Some details worth reading.
- This will work on all major browsers: PC IE6 and IE7, Firefox and Opera. Mac Safari, Firefox and Opera.
- Your widget will only work on your site, ie the domain you enter when you get your code. So if somebody copies your code and puts it on another site, it just won't work there.
- Each widget has its own file storage area. So when you put a widget on your site, you'll only see files uploaded from your upload widget.
- Receive email notifications when new jobs are uploaded.
- Up to 15 files can be uploaded per job (default is 5).
- Maximum total size of files per upload: 1GB (=1000MB)
- Uploaded files and metadata will be deleted automatically one month after upload.
- We're using amazon's EC2 and S3 services for this service.
We recently heard that Amazon's web services are serving up more data than all of Amazon's other sites combined (like amazon.com). Wow - cool stuff.
How can I customize my widget?
You have to know a little about css and javascript to do this. if you do, then it should be pretty easy.
- You'll be embedding this code on an html page that you own. The page can look whichever way you like, you can add instructions for your clients and make it look exactly like the style of your web site.
- You can place the code anywhere on your page that you like. Just make sure it's between the <body></body> tags. You can place it into tables and into divs.
- There's a javascript function called getuploadform() in the code that populates the upload form. Edit the function to change the form fields.
- Edit the javascript function checkform() to make sure your clients fill out the form correctly. You can access the form values with $('id').value.
- You can change the text that appears after the upload completes. This is not only so you can personalize the message, but also to add additional functionality such as a Paypal payment form. Just add the following line to your uploadthingy code - right below the line that starts with 'var sitecode=':
uploadcompletehtml="This is the html that will show when the upload completes.";
Replace the text in quotes with the html that you want to appear. Add '<$refcode$>' (without the quotes) anywhere you want the upload reference code to appear in your text. You can use it multiple times. Example:
uploadcompletehtml="This is the html that will show when the upload completes. Your upload reference code is: <$refcode$>.";
Can you help me customize my widget?
Sure! Let us know - we'll figure it out.
About us.
We're Uta Ritke and Chris Ritke and we're located in beautiful San Geronimo, California, USA.
See us in our 49Sparks video podcast on design!
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