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After a lot of searching and experimentation, the best option seems to be to host your own wink files. This allows you full access to them at all times if you should want to edit or delete them.

There are several options for hosting your wink files for the purpose of displaying them on this board, e.g. you could host them on your own website, but this will cost you precious bandwidth.

A simple, quick and easy, (and totally free) solution is for you to create an account at a web host such as SiteSled.com (this account can also be used to host any other FTP files).

After signing up and verifying your email addy you can then go to your SiteSled File Manager, simply upload your three wink files (htm, .js, .swf) then right-click on the .swf file and select copy shortcut to get the download link (the files are available for use immediately) - that's all you need to do at SiteSled and it's all very intuitive but SiteSled have help forums if you get stuck.

Note that SiteSled is a webhost and their terms of service require that you have a web site {you have 7 days to submit its URL to them} - if you don't already have a website, there are plenty of free ones such as flashbuilder.net or geocities available.

Here is a summary of some of the things you get with a SiteSled webhosting account:

1) Free Personalized Web Address:

• e.g. 1: yourname.sitesled.com,

• e.g. 2: to open your presentation in the current window, your presentation need only then be enclosed in the boards 'flash' tags wrapped around the files addy i.e. similar to this
  

• e.g. 3: to open your presentation in a new window, change the swf extension to htm, your presentation files addy would then be in a form similar to this

Note that while this last option gives the highest quality image it's also very very slow to load and you have no control on the window size (which may present huge problems to users with a lower screen resolution than your own).

2) 250MB Disk Storage

3) 1 Gig/Day Bandwidth w/ Usage Stats

4) No Max File Upload Restrictions

5) "Our offer to host your website for free is a lifetime offer. We do not use activity monitors or anything else to delete accounts"