Windows users may right click the file name to rename it. Be sure you leave the end of the file name as .PDF (dot PDF.) Blogware users: You can rename very easily right at the UPLOAD button.
Step 1: Upload MyFile.PDF to your website. For ordinary websites, use your FTP software for the upload. WARNING: Set your FTP upload software to Binary mode to upload a PDF - ASCII mode will corrupt the PDF.
If you are lucky enough to have a Blogware blog - just click the File Manager tab, then "Upload New File."
Step 2: Prove to yourself - and me - that you know exactly where you put this PDF file and what it is named exactly. Use your web browser to go to
http:// YOUR WEB ADDRESS /NameOfYour.PDF
If this does not work - check your spelling character by character. You may have to use "exact case" - ie upper or lowercase exactly as you named the file. If you uploaded the file into a sub-folder of your website, include the folder name in your browser:
http:// YOUR WEB ADDRESS /some_folder_name/NameOfYour.PDF
When you have found the correct location of your uploaded file, and successfully see your PDF displayed in your browser WITH your website address in front of it - Copy the whole address to your clipboard. IE, highlight the entire web address, pull down menu Edit, choose COPY.
Step 3: Type the link code into your web page and save. I'll explain to make the code for the link.
A link has three parts:
- a beginning which includes web address of your PDF file
- a middle which is the text you want people to see and click on to get to your PDF
- an end - just to mark the end of the text you want people to see and click on.
The beginning: Type this exactly as I am showing it
<A HREF="
Now, with your cursor right after the quotes, pull down menu EDIT and click PASTE. The web address of your PDF file should paste in automatically.
Close the quotes and close the tag like this: ">
So far, you should have code that looks something like this:
<A HREF="http://adl.blogware.com/Test.pdf">
The middle: Here you can put anything you want, such as
Click here for a printable brochure
The end: End the link like this: </A>
Save / publish / upload the web page.
The code of your completed link - beginning, middle and end all together should look something like this:
<A HREF="http://adl.blogware.com/Test.pdf">Click here</A>
On your website, the link should show only the "middle" part, like this:
Click here
Blogware users: You don't have to write out the beginning and end of the code at all - just type the middle, highlight it - then click the button that looks like three links of a chain. It's the 4th button over from the right.
Paste in the web address of your PDF that you Copied (saved to your clip board) earlier.
Click OK and you're done!
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This blog is created using Blogware. Even though I have the skills to create code by hand, I find Blogware faster and easier.