Superb advice in here. I am creating my business plan and about to get into the finacial portion and have been struggling with what to charge, what I can for my performing clinet base ect. I think I will have to create a tier system for sure but you are bang on about hosting ect. I plan on creating how-to videos for simple editing and using the cms. A value added approach. Lots to think about. Thanks
hey guys! 
i am working a lot with videos at the moment. first of all… i was wondering. you guys added the background video element which is great. but i would like to use the feature together with the cms. i think this is not possible right now. you cant upload videos in the assets window. and you cant see uploaded videos via the background video element here too. also you cant upload videos in the cms.
i built a workaround. i added the dynamic embed element and manually wrote the code for displaying the video. the url comes from a plain text field inside the cms. that works great. but wouldnt it be nice to make the background video element available for the cms natively? also right now i had to host the videos on my own server. which is sad because the webflow servers are extremely fast. and we are paying to use them. i found another workaround. i added a few background video elements. and just copied the url from within the web inspector. i now use them in my plain text fields. that works too. but its a lot of work. please think of making this easier.
also i found out that the videos i uploaded were scaled down by webflow. why is that so? i was spending a looot of time working on the perfect compression and size. please make that optional.
thank you!
jaro
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You should split this into another topic.
Hi Ben @Bissenmann
Do you have any idea if file Webflow uploads/downloads are coming any time soon?
Thanks.
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Could use dropbox or something similar and add links - you can then employ their security passwords on files.
What Ive done is have a password protected folder on Dropbox linked to webflow. Then whatever my client wants to drop in that folder is protected. They dont have to worry about passwords or links.
Alternatively All normal hosting company’s offer storage, for another client, Ive used the storage facility of the company I registered the domainname with, then just added the link to webflow. The good thing about this was that the storage was not branded. So it feels like its part of the website experience.
Even a small size and limit would be better than nothing.
i have other sites and dropbox and ya they work, but getting files from another site seems odd - yes it can be rather easy… but it technically is an added expense *monthly additional hosting… and hassle for something very straight forward… nevermind if customer wants to put a pdf file up… or collabors putting up files… dropbox files often get erased or moved by accident and links get broken …
I would like to bring everyone’s attention to another option for PDF and file hosting on Webflow. Earlier in this thread I outlined how you can use Dropbox to create a direct download link. You can do this same thing using Google Drive.
- Upload your file to Google Drive
- Right click on your newly uploaded file and click “Share”
- Change the share settings to “On - Anyone with the link”
- Copy the link from the Share menu
- Paste your link into this convenient tool.
You now have a direct download link to any file you want, all hosted on Google Drive. Take this link and paste it into the settings of a button or a link in Webflow and set it to open in a new tab. Done.
Also, this solves any cost or erased file issues @klubjunk considering Google Drive is reliable and free. I will be using Google Drive from now on rather than Dropbox on my Webflow sites for file hosting.
Best,
Christopher Travers
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