Hosting pet profile CSS offsite?
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Is it still possible to do this? If so, can someone please guide me through it? Or share what you use to host your pet CSS! c:
I know it used to be possible with Google Drive, but that's apparently been discontinued since August 31st 2016.
Kind of wishing Subeta offered this option in the first place. Y'know, for people who use the same profile template for like 50+ pet profiles, but also have a ton of character story, details and info to write down.
I used this with dropbox before. After you upload the file, you need to right click where it is (web interface) then select [ View direct link ]
I don't think the .css file absolutely needs to be in a folder set to "public" but I think I would do that just to be on the safe side.
ancient guide i wrote a while ago, I hope it's err,,, understandable.
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If you didn't know, Subeta has some kind of character limit set on pet profiles (I can't remember what it is).
If you run into the problem of having WAAAAY too much code-text, you can upload your .css file somewhere else, and call it up on the pet page. It's super duper awesome, and that way you don't have to scroll through (or accidentally scroll through) masses of code text and just work on your huge story (if that's the case).
Okay, but the problem is that a lot of hosting sites (example, popular image hostings site are like flickr or photobucket) don't let you upload .css files, or when they do, you can't direct link them (or you have to pay to direct link)! time to cry...
OH! BUT LOOKIE! dropbox.com is free for 2Gigs of information (that's definitely enough for more than a thousand little css files!) and you can set your folders to public... and then BAM view the css file via direct link!
You need to paste your CSS code into notepad (or whatever coding programs you have) without the <style> tags.
Then name the file "NAMEHERE.css". THAT ".css" IS SUPER DUPER IMPORTANT!
Once you figure out how to upload a file to your dropbox (you don't actually have to download the program, you can manage your files online through your browser just as well), you upload that .css file to your dropbox, move it to whatever folder, etc.
Then RIGHT CLICK >> View Direct Link
with this direct link (the text file, it SHOULD end with ".css"), use this code in your CSS on your pet page (in between <style>HERE!</style> the style tags!)
url(PASTE YOUR CSS FILE'S URL HERE);
AND THAT'S IT! the code tells the page to read the css file for that page :D it's super duper awesome!
I thought I should share how I manage story-book profiles if you have a lot of text and not just text-on-images.
@ Chen Ahaha, I forgot all about dropbox. :'D Thank you so much!
The guide looks fine to me, I'll give this a shot in a few minutes and see if it works better than Google Drive did.
There was always a bit of lag with Drive before the offsite CSS kicked in. 3-8 seconds, just enough to be annoying. Dunno if that's generally a thing with offsite pet page CSS, of it Google was handling it poorly? Drive wasn't exactly intended for CSS hosting.
[edit] Definitely a lot less lag with loading the CSS through Dropbox than it was with Drive!
For anyone who wants to do this themselves
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Make free account on Dropbox, or log in through Google
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Upload .css file according to 's instructions above
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In the web uploader - click "share" link on your file. Get link.
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Tweak link! Replace www with dl
So instead of https://www.dropbox.com/otherstuff.css It needs to be https://dl.dropbox.com/otherstuff.css
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Use 's code above:
<style> url(PASTE YOUR CSS FILE'S URL HERE); </style> -
Replace the big bold text with your tweaked dropbox css link.
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Boom! You're done!