I have inherited the job of looking after our club website. This has been fine when all it involved was fixing a broken link or such like.

The latest request was to have the membership form on there to download. Any ideas how to go about it? I can happily FTP the word docx. to the server and even link to it. But how on earth do i make a ” click here to download” sort of thing?

Many thanks in advance

off the top of my head just use an anchor tag (a href) pointing to the file location? I haven’t done web stuff for ages, but pretty sure if it’s a doc file or similar it gives the option to download.

Cheers Warton.

I think google might just have shown me the way, even managed to cut and paste the HTML!

Cheers

Let’s assume the document is called ‘membership_form.doc’ –

Upload the document to the webspace and make sure you have the URL for it.

On the webpage you are wanting a text link from, add the following code (in this example anything shaped with <_ should actually be add with the underscore – I’ve added the underscore to make sure this doesn’t do any actual html!)

<_a href=”url_of_document/membership_form.doc” target=”_blank”>Download the Membership Form in Word format (link opens in a new window)<_/a>

This will create a hyperlink to the form with the words – Download the Membership Form in Word format (link opens in a new window) – as the actual link.

You can do the same with an image but instead of using text, you would put the html for an image in there i.e. –

<_a href=”url_of_document/membership_form.doc” target=”_blank”><_img src=”url_of_image” border=”0″><_/a>