HEEEELP!!!!!

Report · Mar 16, 2007

Please someone help me ... i've been learning how to use dreamweaver for
approximately 6 months now and read countless books on both dreamweaver and flash mx .
I then started to think about web design as a business and offered to do my cuurent employer
a free website as practise for me ...... hoever he wants me to create a page where the user
clicks on a file and get's a download pop-up box for them to download a file. this was never
covered in the literature i've read and i have'nt got a clue how to go about it
can anyone shed some light on the subject please i would be ever gratefull

many thanks
xxxxx Daveyboyi xxxxx

Report · Mar 16, 2007

> can anyone shed some light on the subject please i would be ever
> gratefull

<a href="path/to/your/filename.doc">Download file</a>

-Darrel

Report · Mar 16, 2007

hi darrel t
hanks for the quick response ...what does this mean ?? is it coldfusion i have to use or is it something else
i'm a designer not a script writer, so i'm not really clued up on script .

Report · Mar 16, 2007

If you want to use DW you will have to add to your skills and learn some
HTML.

What darrel is saying is that if you just LINK to the file, as you would
with any other file, you can then download it by right clicking on the link
and selecting Save Target As....

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":-)(-:MEEEBOP:-)(-:" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> hi darrel t
> hanks for the quick response ...what does this mean ?? is it coldfusion i
> have to use or is it something else
> i'm a designer not a script writer, so i'm not really clued up on script .
>

Report · Mar 19, 2007

AHA now that i can do .. i can put a link to word files that are in the root folder but
i wondered if that was a bit unproffesional just asking the user to right click and save as.
i was trying to avoid this and get the pop-up box that asks if you want to save this file.
a good example of what i'm trying to acheive is @ the link below

example

here you can see the pdf files at the end of each descriptor and if you click on one you get a pop-up box which asks if you would like to save the file ... this is what i am trying to acheive... please advise if you know any further
and once again many thanks for your patience
daveyboyi

Report · Mar 19, 2007

Zip the file first. Then link to it.

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":-)(-:MEEEBOP:-)(-:" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:etn01k$d6f$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> AHA now that i can do .. i can put a link to word files that are in the
> root
> folder but
> i wondered if that was a bit unproffesional just asking the user to right
> click and save as.
> i was trying to avoid this and get the pop-up box that asks if you want
> to
> save this file.
> a good example of what i'm trying to acheive is @ the link below
>
>
> http://downloadcentre.omron-industrial.com/dlc3/browse.do?path=Products%2FCX-One
> %2FRegulation+and+Switching%2FCX-Process
>
> here you can see the pdf files at the end of each descriptor and if you
> click
> on one you get a pop-up box which asks if you would like to save the file
> ...
> this is what i am trying to acheive... please advise if you know any
> further
> and once again many thanks for your patience
> daveyboyi
>

Report · Mar 20, 2007

hi murray thanks for the reply

tried to link to a zip file and all it did, when i clicked on the link whilst preveiwing it in my browser, was show the contents
of the zip file ???
does it only work when i upload to server then ??

Report · Mar 20, 2007

> was show the contents of the zip file ???

Give me a link. This is not what one would usually expect if the server has
mime types properly set.

> does it only work when i upload to server then ??

Well, yeah.

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":-)(-:MEEEBOP:-)(-:" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> hi murray thanks for the reply
>
> tried to link to a zip file and all it did, when i clicked on the link
> whilst preveiwing it in my browser, was show the contents
> of the zip file ???
> does it only work when i upload to server then ??
>
>

Report · Mar 18, 2007

>> can anyone shed some light on the subject please i would be ever
>> gratefull
>
> <a href="path/to/your/filename.doc">Download file</a>

If you've been learning DW for 6 months and you don't yet recognize HTML, it
might be time to change tactics a bit. I'd suggest dropping any DW
books/courses and switch over to learning some basic HTML. HTML is the
foundation for everything you do in DW, so you really need to learn it if
you want to have success and less frustration when building web sites.

As Murray points out, my above example is just an HTML link to a word file.

-Darrel