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[Mazie]

I'm fairly new to web site maintenance. I teach HTML and think I'm pretty knowledgeable. I recently attempted to use ftp to upload a pdf file. Success; however, I'm stumped as to how to get it to show up on my site?

 

I know, probably a simple solution, but it eludes me.

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the family, and forums.

 

By show up on your site do you mean a link to it? If that is the case then it would look something like this.

 

Click here for PDF

 

Of course this assumes that you uploaded the PDF file to your "public_html" folder.

[Mazie]

Silly as this question is, where do I place the link tags?

 

Yes, the pdf file is in the public_html folder

[TCH-Bruce]

I replied to your email.

 

You need to create this link on the web page that you want the user to access the PDF file. It's the same as creating a link to another page.

[Mazie]

THank you very much for the welcome and the help. I knew it would be a simple solution.

 

Hopefully, any other questions I have will be just as simple.

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the Family Mazie

 

and your new home!

 

We really are like family here.

So if you need anything,

just ask your new family!

We love to help

[Mazie]

Thank you for the welcome, it has been very helpful. Thanks to Bruce, I finally got the pdf files up and running.

 

My latest issue is that I'm getting weird? odd? characters inserted into the file. Here's the example:

 

     Member's

 

Since I took over the maintenance for this site, I'm not totally sure of all the coding used by the former maintenance people.

 

Any help?

[TCH-Don]

What is the link to the site in question?

[Mazie]

This is not a link. Well, maybe it is. Here's the HTML for that section:

 

 

excerpt from site:

 

for an exciting evening in the charming Channel Islands Harbor on Saturday October 2nd at 4:00 p.m. The following

 

HTML for that section:

 

<td class="linklist" valign="top" bgcolor="#5a75a7" colspan="2" height="42">

<img height="34" alt="" src="../images/bottomseal.gif" width="132"></td>

<td valign="top" width="13" bgcolor="#ffffff" rowspan="2"><!--DWLayoutEmptyCell--></td><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Main Body" -->

<td class="pagetitle" valign="top" width="593" bgcolor="#ffffff" rowspan="2">

<p class="MsoTitle" align="center"><a href="Progressive Dining Flyer.pdf">Progressive Dinner</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal" align="center">Channel Islands Harbor</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal" align="center">Join fellow Management Council members and Captain Bob, your personal maitre

'd on his water taxi for an exciting evening in the charming Channel Islands Harbor

on Saturday October 2^nd at 4:00 p.m. The following four

 

 

 

I keep deleting the A, but it's there when I come back to the editor. do I zap the "DWLayoutEmptyCell" section?

[Mazie]

The web site is: http://www.vcmanagementcouncil.org and the link is "Socal Events."

[TCH-Bruce]

I saved a copy of your page to my local drive and opened it with Notepad and removed the A,A from it and saved it. Opened it in the browser and it was gone.

 

You may want to try opening your HTML document with Notepad and edit those out and save it. Then publish it.

[Mazie]

Thanks again, Bruce. That worked. The characters showed up when I went to the HTML Editor and made corrections there.

 

Is there a glitch in that editor?

[TCH-Bruce]

Is there a glitch in that editor?

Couldn't say, I code HTML by hand.