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files can you upload?
To
extend the scope of your easisites website, there is
the facility - available by clicking the Extras
button on the gold bar at the top of the page when
you have published and paid for your site - for you
to upload as many as six extra files - effectively six extra
pages. These will appear as click-links for your visitors.
You
can use this facility to provide order forms for customers to
print out, a price list ... or anything else you can supply a
file for - even a brochure.
You
can provide the files in any format - such as Acrobat PDF files, Microsoft
Word documents and any other file type that can be read on the web.
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Not
everyone has Microsoft Word on their computer. To be safe, you
should first use Word to Save As... and choose RTF instead of
Word Document. RTF is a universal format that almost all word
processor programs can handle. |
Important:
When your site visitor clicks for an extra file, what happens will depend
on their computer and what it can cope with. An extra web picture will
be no problem, but if your word processed document uses fonts that your
visitor doesn't also have on their PC, the document won't display properly
for them. To be safe, stick to ordinary fonts like Times and Arial.
You
can also use the extras facility to upload additional
pictures - gif or jpg files - to display on your easisites website.
How
to create links to your extra files
To
put a link in your "Freestyle text"
to one of your extra files, type it between angle-brackets while
you are updating your site. - Like this:
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<easiextra3/words for your link> |
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| Use
your mouse to highlight the example link to the left, then Edit/Copy
from the window menu. After you Return
to editing your site you can Edit/Paste
in the Freestyle text and finish by altering the number and
words to suit your needs. |
This
would create a link to your third extra file and show it underlined
with whatever words you type after the slash. Don't type any spaces
except in the words you want underlined. If you upload a replacement
third file the link will connect to that instead. You can put these
links on any of your pages and as many times as you wish.
Example
link to an extra file
Suppose
the second extra file you uploaded were a Word Document of your usual
paper-based order form. You could refer to it in your freestyle text
like this.
This
example means "link to my extra file number 2 and do so with the words
Order Form underlined for clicking".
Your
web visitors will see it as a normal click link.
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