Help needed from web design types

[Biff]

Help please.

I've just lauched a web site for a friend, built using Dreamweaver MX. So everything has been written using very basic html (except ye ole browser detect JS) - so please don't blind me with PHP etc gobbledegook.

Anyhoo - I'm trying to create a link to an excell spredsheet (I want to upload) on the host's servers, that will be available for people to download.

Any ideas that the html code is please?

Would 'href' or similar do the do?

Please help me. Joining the forum on webmonkey.com kinda scares me.

Ta



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[Karma]

just a stright link to the file will do, it will then give the persons browser the option to either save or open the file.

<_a href="file"_>This is a file<_/_A_> or something, without the _'s of course

[Big Dave]

I would make the excel spreadsheet a .pdf and have it for download rather than the excel file?

[Street Gerbil]

Hmmmm... What about saving the excel as the html table and just inserting it into the website? Will make the data available to those of us without excel installation.

[Busy]

If you just want them to download (not view) it, just .zip the file, then use the code Weasel gave
winzip is free if you havent already got it