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Avoid ISP size pitfalls when delivering files

Electronic delivery of large files to customers, partners, and vendors is a requirement of doing business in the Internet age. The problem is that files are getting larger but Internet Service Providers limit the size of attachments you can deliver — and you can't predict your recipient's ISP limitations. My Docs Online solves this problem with the "Give" feature.

Better than FTP:
An advanced, yet easier method to deliver or receive files

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) has been around longer than the Web, and was once the premier method of uploading files to a server or downloading files from a server to a PC. Today, however, there are better methods based on the Web protocol (HTTP) that don't require users to install special clients, are more familiar, easier for the user, and therefore more successful.

Create a web site using the Public folder

My Docs Online users with basic HTML skills can host simple yet complete web sites within their account's Public folder and its subfolders. All it requires is creating an appropriate "index" or "home" page including links to other HTML files, to image files or to downloadable files of any type.

Advanced techniques for using Microsoft Office and My Docs Online

Microsoft Office's built-in support for Web Folders combined with MDO allows file "locking" to avoid simultaneous update problems when sharing files that are actively edited online. When an Office application's ability to "Save As HTML" is used via Web Folders to upload files to the My Docs Online Public folder the result is read-only web versions of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files.