Help with designing a website.

[BoomAM]

Hi,
I was wondering, if i wanted to place a link to a file, say a driver, or a picture, on my website, how would i do it?
Would i upload the file to my webspace, and then make a link on one of the pages to the the file? If so how would that work?

Thanks in advance.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

yup, upload the file, then link to it. pretty darn easy.

<a href="filename.drv">DOWNLOAD IT</a>

make sure you have the correct path in the filename though, ex. <a href="images/picture.jpg">DOWNLOAD IT</a>

 

[theNEOone]

yah. like he said.

just remember if it's an image file, chances are iexplorer will be able to open it just fine, and people browsing your site will see the image. but if it's another format, i.e. *.zip, *.exe, etc. then iexplorer will just open a dialog box asking the user if he/she wants to download the file.

 

[BoomAM]

so for the link, say if i was to make in in ms pub, would read, "/foldername/filename.exe"

 

[RossMAN]

First you need to upload the file from your PC to the website using an FTP client.

If you're using Dixiesys as a webhost make sure ALL your files go into the httpdocs directory.

If you're using another webhost who has cPanel put ALL your files into the public_html or www directory.

Then you'll just need a link to the file would be http://www.yourdomain.com/filename.ext

Remember everything is case sensitive so picture.jpg and picture.JPG are not the same.

 

[BoomAM]

Ive just uploaded a file called:-
Peter Kay - Max`s car alarm.mp3
So how would i link to this?

If i select "link to file on another website" and then type in:-
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/boomam/Peter Kay - Max`s car alarm.mp3
Would this work?

 

[theNEOone]

also try giving files simple names w/ no spaces.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: theNEOone
also try giving files simple names w/ no spaces.

Yep file names with no spaces eithertogetherlikethis or together_like_this or make them short like carmix.mp3

 

[BoomAM]

Result!!!
Got it working using the above method.
Ignore the semi link above.
Click on the "My Website" part of the webpage, and on the main page, there a download for a small 200kb mp3 file. Download it, its amazingly funny.
Its from Peter Kays Phoenix Nights Season 2.

 

[theNEOone]

here's the link you want

left click for quicktime plugin or right click to save

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: BoomAM
Result!!!
Got it working using the above method.
Ignore the semi link above.
Click on the "My Website" part of the webpage, and on the main page, there a download for a small 200kb mp3 file. Download it, its amazingly funny.
Its from Peter Kays Phoenix Nights Season 2.

Congrats!

Now you just need to get an index.html or index.htm page

 

[Placer14]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: BoomAM
Result!!!
Got it working using the above method.
Ignore the semi link above.
Click on the "My Website" part of the webpage, and on the main page, there a download for a small 200kb mp3 file. Download it, its amazingly funny.
Its from Peter Kays Phoenix Nights Season 2.

Congrats!

Now you just need to get an index.html or index.htm page

Quit acting like you're so smart all the time. You make the rest of us look bad.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Placer14

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: BoomAM
Result!!!
Got it working using the above method.
Ignore the semi link above.
Click on the "My Website" part of the webpage, and on the main page, there a download for a small 200kb mp3 file. Download it, its amazingly funny.
Its from Peter Kays Phoenix Nights Season 2.

Congrats!

Now you just need to get an index.html or index.htm page

Quit acting like you're so smart all the time. You make the rest of us look bad.

That's kinda difficult considering you know more than I do esp about HTML, PHP, etc.

 

[Placer14]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: Placer14

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: BoomAM
Result!!!
Got it working using the above method.
Ignore the semi link above.
Click on the "My Website" part of the webpage, and on the main page, there a download for a small 200kb mp3 file. Download it, its amazingly funny.
Its from Peter Kays Phoenix Nights Season 2.

Congrats!

Now you just need to get an index.html or index.htm page

Quit acting like you're so smart all the time. You make the rest of us look bad.

That's kinda difficult considering you know more than I do esp about HTML, PHP, etc.

I don't know what you're talking about. I know how to turn the computer on and play my computer games, but that's about it.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Remember everything is case sensitive so picture.jpg and picture.JPG are not the same.

Not always true.

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: BoomAM
Result!!!
Got it working using the above method.
Ignore the semi link above.
Click on the "My Website" part of the webpage, and on the main page, there a download for a small 200kb mp3 file. Download it, its amazingly funny.
Its from Peter Kays Phoenix Nights Season 2.

Congrats!

Now you just need to get an index.html or index.htm page

I already have one. The website address is in a link in my sig.

 

[Placer14]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Remember everything is case sensitive so picture.jpg and picture.JPG are not the same.

Not always true.

True. It's dependant on the OS of the server. *nix servers are almost always case sensitive unless that was specifically turned off with the web server (and a majority of the time, it usually is because internet users are dumb). And I don't think i've ever come accross an MS server where it was case sensitive.