Website hosting issue.

Hugo93

Hello,

I hope ye will be able to help me figure something out.

I am a trainee teacher putting forward a masters proposal to develop a resource for my subject Technical Graphics in both Irish and English. I use mainly PowerPoint's with videos attached from a overhead projector. The slideshows are hyperlinked to navigate through them very quickly.
I am having trouble attaching them to a website as the PowerPoint's are 500-700mbs and I don’t want them to be downloadable.
Any suggestions of programs other than PowerPoint to use or a website host that will allow me to upload large files?
Thank you in advance for the help on this.

Red Hare

Hello Hugo- I am a teacher myself and I use wordpress.com for my art history website. It works great for me http://arthistoryleavingcert.com/ - but i have never used powerpoints.

There is a website that uses powerpoints http://leavingcerthistory.net/. its is also a wordpress.com website - maybe your could use the contact form on the website to ask this teacher if they have problems attaching powerpoints.

One important point is if your going to use Wordpress - I recommend to use use wordpress.com not wordpress.org. ( .org is far more complicated )

Mrs OBumble

Ahh, so you want to upload large files, and presumably for your website to be able to display them (if no one can see them, then there's no point). But you don't want anyone to be able to download the files. You may be pushing your luck there, I think.

Re size, have you experimented with exporting from PPT to video format? I've had some good results with taking things to MP4 format.

Hugo93

Thanks for the help everyone. I will look at wordpress as a option. I have messed around with many other providers only issue is that they don't always display their upload limits until you join and try to upload something.

In terms of converting them to mp4 files. As far as I know I will lose the hyperlinking with the powerpoint, but I will experiment with that now

M.T.D

Visitors to your site can't view a file with out downloading it.
Huge files take ages to down load (don't believe UPC most of the country does not get 240meg broadband)
a 500mb file on a laptop in the class room might be ok but on line to use live aim less than 500k, for a downloadable PDF or PowerPoint the smaller the better a 20mb file for many people will take several minutes to appear on their screens.
Whether your provider lets you put huge files on line is not really relevant if no one can view them.

Microsoft files are not known for their compactness, Word is bad and PowerPoint is worse.

If your users are displaying on a screen then make sure all the constituent files are optimised for size before you add them to your presentation.

A 20mb 6k x 4k pixel png photo will look the same on an average monitor as a 100k 1200 x 800 jpg.

Mrs OBumble

A thought: Try Google Docs.

If you make upload your PowerPoint and convert it to Docs format, then you can use the publish > embed option.

With this

... the publication isn’t the original item but a separate webpage version. In other words, by publishing Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides, you’re creating a copy of them that’s a unique webpage with its own public URL.

Now, it will still be possible for someone to download the webpages - there is not way you can stop that. But the won't be able to download the presentation file (unless you make the link available).

IRE60

try Issuu

http://issuu.com/