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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>