PDF file..

[Fernando Mol]

You can place a direct link to your document.

<a href=https://www.yourpage.com/docs/yourdoc.doc>download the doc</a>

Why can’t you open a .doc file?

If you don’t have MS Office, you can download Open Office for free.

[Jesse Soober]

Ok, well the owner of the site emailed the docs to me and told me to put them on. I’m on a Mac, so can I still download the Open Office? And how do I download the docs to the website?

Thanks

[Fernando Mol]

You need to “upload” the documents to your server.

How are you managing the site? Are you FTP connecting with Dreamweaver? If not, you can google for some free FTP manager. Upload your docs to your server and add the links to your HTML pages.

You can find a Mac version of Open Office in https://www.openoffice.org/

[Jesse Soober]

Ok, I downloaded Open Office and I can open the docs now, so how do I go about uploading them to the site? I’m FTP connecting with Dreamweaver to manage the site.

Thanks

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

a web server is just like your computer with a file structure. all web pages exist in a directory on that server. impossible for us to theorize where outside of a few traditional locations, but since we don’t know the os or other info, we can’t say.

i guarantee that the host for your account has instructions on their site as to how to ftp up content to your site – best plan for you is to follow those docs and you’ll be good to go.

sitruc

[Fernando Mol]

Place your docs inside your site folder.

In Dreamweaver go to the files panel (if it’s not open just click F8). Be sure the drop down menu in the middle of your files panel is in “local view”.

Select your document.

Close to the upper right corner of the files panel there is a blue upper arrow button. Click on it.

A window will pop up giving you some feedback of the process.

After a few seconds it will close.

That’s all. Your files are in your server.

[Fernando Mol]

Curtis is right.

I’m assuming you already have configured your site in Dreamweaver to FTP connect.

Are you?

[Mike Smith]

You might want to point your client towards one or more of
https://www.useit.com/alertbox/open_new_windows.html
https://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030714.html
and
https://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

[Jesse Soober]

Those are really helpful links, thank you!
So my question now is, what is the best way to put my files on my page? They are for a competition. One of them is a list of the classes in the competition(.doc), one is an entry form for a competition(.doc) and one is a release form for the competition(.pdf). All of which I could imagine people would want to print, but I’m not sure if they would need to read them online.

I’m really new at this kind of stuff and am totally lost. I have no idea how I should go about all of this. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[Fernando Mol]

You may want to put some information online and then a link to the printable document.