Dreamweaver

Hi Paulette,

It depends how you want your visitors to see the document. If you wish your visitors to download/see your publisher file as it is, remember that they will need to have Microsoft Publisher installed on their computer too.

A more common method of distributing files is to use PDF. To do this you would convert (or 'print') your publisher file to a PDF file (if you don't have this option, perhaps use one of the free PDF creation files such as PDF995). Then when you upload your new PDF document, most people will be able to see that (and if not, then Adobe PDF Reader is free for them to get and install).

Having said that, if you did want to upload a Publisher document, or indeed any other type of file, you just upload it like a normal HTML or HTM file. I would recommend you create a separate directory in your local structure eg. 'downloads'. Copy the document you want to upload to this directory, then use Dreamweaver to upload the file (click the file, then press PUT button).

Then, all you have to do is link to the document, like you would link to any other web page. The code would look like this:
<a href="/downloads/my-file.pub">Download the publisher file</a>

I hope this answers your question, Paulette.

Regards, Rich.