Using your Static Folder

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=Using your _static/ folder=

You may have wondered what the '_static/' folder in your LibSyn account was for.

Recall that part of the wonderful deal we have with LibSyn is that we get to upload a fresh 100 Mb or 250 Mb or whatever each and every month without having to pay more and more money. This is because media files uploaded to the root level directory are archived after they've been up for 30 days.

Your listeners will always be able to get to your old files this way, without your having to buy more and more storage space.

The catch is this: after a file has been archived, you don't have access to it to edit or change it. It's there the way it was when it got archived.

So let's imagine that you want to link from your blogpage to another HTML file, for example, such as a bio page or some other kind of webpage associated with your site. But you want to be able to update this file two or three or four months from now.

Just create your webpage with an HTML file, and upload that file to your _static/ folder. Files in this folder will not get archived, so you will always be able to get to it to update it, when your name changes or you make the top 10 in Podcast Alley or win a Nobel Prize or something.

You'll want the world to know about these things…

Remember when you link to it, from your blogpage or anywhere else, that you have to link to it as follows (using my own site as a totally self-serving example):

http://libsyn.com/static/thewordnerds/TWNBio.html

If you have your own website you can call the file like this: http://website.com/static/<username>/<filename>

The final result will be: http://homedir-a.libsyn.com/podcasts/<username>/_static/<filename> but no one will see this in the browser.