Have people download files from your website? How? Where?

tommy1598 · 05-Aug-2004, 05:14 PM #1

I am an intermediate at html (I can do simple stuff like marquees and such) and I have a question. When you go to download a file off of someones website you have that IE download screen come up which is usualy .zip or .exe. I have been looking for a server that holds those files so when someone clicks the link that same IE download screen comes up. I tried Comcast Personal Webpages (PWP) and put my files in .zip folders on my Personal FTP space, I added a link pointing to that location and nothing worked! Is there anyone who knows of a free server or web hosting service that can help me with this?

brendandonhu · 05-Aug-2004, 05:52 PM #2

Theres nothing special about those files, a link to them should work fine on any webhost. What code did you use for the link.

I know its just a rant, but marquees suck. They're annoying.

tommy1598 · 05-Aug-2004, 05:58 PM #3

Thanks for the tip.

I didn't use any special code but the link to the file itself if that makes sense. I get that page cannot be displayed message. I put the file on an FTP server but if that's the problem how can I put it on HTTP???

Simpler Message-

It's not working!

brendandonhu · 05-Aug-2004, 07:45 PM #4

I don't think it matters if its on an FTP server, although it wouldn't hurt to try an HTTP. Comcasts web-based file uploader should let you upload ZIP and EXE files. Just to verify, you used a normal link, something like this
<a href="ftp://blah.com/blah.zip">blah</a>

tommy1598 · 06-Aug-2004, 08:55 PM #5

What are the tags for? What do they mean? Thanks.

Okay I think I can believe 14

brendandonhu · 07-Aug-2004, 02:21 PM #6

Quote:

Originally Posted by tommy1598

What are the tags for? What do they mean? Thanks.

The <a> tag is for creating a link in HTML.

Quote:

Okay I think I can believe 14

Care to explain that?

cnelson04 · 07-Aug-2004, 07:14 PM #7

Here, i have a site that will deffantly help you get started it helped me tonz! http://www.htmlgoodies.com <---i think one of the best sites for HTML program and it has great linkz! btw good luck!

tommy1598 · 08-Aug-2004, 12:58 PM #8

Hey cnelson! Thanks for the tip. That was helpful unlike some peoples posts.
Thanks you!

cnelson04 · 08-Aug-2004, 03:24 PM #9

n/p thats what were all here for!

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