Re: Download tag

Kym--

I think this is your problem:

You named the download page "fuschia.zip" and placed that page in the 
images directory. Consequently, when you access the link

	http://www.angelfire.com/biz3/makinwaves/images/fuschia.zip

you get the page called fuschia.zip and you do not get a file download.


What you want to do is:

(1) Create your zip file: e.g., fuschia.zip.

(2) Organizationally, you're probably better off creating a separate 
directory for downloads, rather than placing the zip files in the 
images directory. So, create another directory: e.g, downloads.

(3) Now, the html page which will contain the link to this file 
should have its own unique name: e.g., getfiles.html.

(4) The link will be similar to what you tried, but of course you'll 
have the correct path: e.g.

	<A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/biz3/makinwaves/downloads/fuschia.zip

You can leave out the http:// and use a relative path name, if you 
want, so long as the download link path is correct relative to the 
html file's location. Or use the absolute path if that's what you 
usually do.

(5) Upload the html file to the appropriate directory. Create/upload 
the downloads directory and upload the fuchia.zip to that directory, 
etc..

It should work.

Another option is to use an ftp server. You may want to tackle that 
some other time.


--Jeff




>Hi guys,
>
>I have just put up some pages and want to make a .zip file available for
>download by clicking on an image.
>
>The main page is at:
>
>http://www.angelfire.com/biz3/makinwaves/garden.html
>
>and the various pages link from the images thereon. On each individual
>page, I would like to make a zip file available of all the graphics in a
>set but try as I might, I cannot get the code right to go to a download.
>If I include "makinwaves" in the HREF tag and click on the link, I get shot
>back to my main homepage of 
>http://www.angelfire.com/biz3/makinwaves/index.html
>
>So far, I have tried:
>
>A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/biz3/makinwaves/fuschia.zip"</A>
>A
>HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/biz3/makinwaves/images/fuschia.zip"><A>...I
>think the file is in my images directory on the server.
>A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/biz3/makinwaves/index/images/fuschia.zip"</A>
>
>and lord knows how many other combos...none of which seem to work.
>
>Can somebody help me out with the right HREF code please.
>
>TIA
>
>Kym
>
>
>
>p.s. I have removed all reference to a download at this point, because I
>don't want something sitting there that doesn't work.

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