I want to add a download section to my site, so users can download a PDF of a specific brochure etc.
There will be an image of the front cover to click on
How do you do this with Hyperlink and where do you store the PDF when the site if live.
Regards
Mike, access your your web server with an application like Transmit or CyberDuck and create a new folder called pdf in the public-html folder. Now upload your pdf files to the newly created pdf folder on your server.
In FW click on your image and link it to the pdf on your server, the link will look something like this - http://yoursite.com.pdf/your.pdf (replace “your” with your actual url and pdf file name ).
I think the nomenclature would look more like http://yoursite.com/pdf/your.pdf (Helveticus, did you intend to put a dot where a forward slash should have been to designate the “pdf” folder/directory?).
Another option that works great for small to medium sized PDFs, is the Graphic Link to PDF action in Freeway. I don’t care for it for larger PDFs, because any minor change to where the PDF is on a particular Freeway page for that site, causes the PDF to be re-uploaded.
Joe
On Dec 30, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Helveticus wrote:
Mike, access your your web server with an application like Transmit or CyberDuck and create a new folder called pdf in the public-html folder. Now upload your pdf files to the newly created pdf folder on your server.
In FW click on your image and link it to the pdf on your server, the link will look something like this - http://yoursite.com.pdf/your.pdf(replace “your” with your actual url and pdf file name ).
One other advantage to Helveticus’s idea is that it allows you to do
tricky things with an .htaccess file to “force” the files to download,
if that’s the delivery mechanism you prefer. (Otherwise, browsers do
what browser will, and the PDF may display in the browser (breaking
the Back button) or it may appear in a helper application, or it may
download. Here’s the recipe to force downloads if that’s what you
want: http://freewaytalk.net/thread/view/36529#m_36533
Walter
On Dec 30, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Joe Sporleder wrote:
I think the nomenclature would look more like http://yoursite.com/pdf/your.pdf
(Helveticus, did you intend to put a dot where a forward slash
should have been to designate the “pdf” folder/directory?).
Another option that works great for small to medium sized PDFs, is
the Graphic Link to PDF action in Freeway. I don’t care for it for
larger PDFs, because any minor change to where the PDF is on a
particular Freeway page for that site, causes the PDF to be re-
uploaded.
Joe
On Dec 30, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Helveticus wrote:
Mike, access your your web server with an application like Transmit
or CyberDuck and create a new folder called pdf in the public-html
folder. Now upload your pdf files to the newly created pdf folder
on your server.
In FW click on your image and link it to the pdf on your server,
the link will look something like this - http://yoursite.com.pdf/your.pdf(replace
“your” with your actual url and pdf file name ).