Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours

By Dick Oliver

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Put Your HTML Page Online Today
  • I. Your First Web Page
  • Hour 1. Understanding HTML and XML
  • Hour 2. Create a Web Page Right Now
  • Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages
  • Hour 4. Publishing Your HTML Pages
    • Setting Up an Internet Web Site
    • Transferring Pages to a Web Server
    • Making a File Available for Downloading
    • Putting Web Pages on an Intranet
    • Publishing Web Pages on Disk
    • Testing Your Pages
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • II. Web Page Text
  • Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists
  • Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
  • Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
  • Hour 8. Creating HTML Forms
  • III. Web Page Graphics
  • Hour 9. Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
  • Hour 10. Putting Graphics on a Web Page
  • Hour 11. Custom Backgrounds and Colors
  • Hour 12. Creating Animated Graphics
  • IV. Web Page Design
  • Hour 13. Page Design and Layout
  • Hour 14. Graphical Links and Imagemaps
  • Hour 15. Advanced Layout with Tables
  • Hour 16. Using Style Sheets
  • V. Dynamic Web Pages
  • Hour 17. Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages
  • Hour 18. Interactive Pages with Applets and ActiveX
  • Hour 19. Web Page Scripting for Non-Programmers
  • Hour 20. Setting Pages in Motion with Dynamic HTML
  • VI. Building a Web Site
  • Hour 21. Multipage Layout with Frames
  • Hour 22. Organizing and Managing a Web Site
  • Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages
  • Hour 24. Planning for the Future of HTML
  • VII. Appendixes
  • A. Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions
  • B. HTML Learning Resources on the Internet
  • C. Complete HTML 4 Quick Reference
  • D. HTML Character Entities

Making a File Available for Downloading

Many Web authors want to know how to make a file that isn't a Web page available for downloading from a Web site. A zip archive and an .exe program are good examples of such files.

Just upload the file to your Web site, following the instructions in this hour for uploading. Create a link to the file on one of your Web pages, as explained in Hour 3. For example, if the file were called neatgame.zip, the link would look like this:

<a href="neatgame.zip">Click here to download a neat game i wrote.</a>

You might want to put a reminder somewhere near the link telling people that the easiest way to download the file is to right-click (or, if you're a Macintosh user, hold down the mouse button) on the link and select Save Link As from the pop-up menu. (It also works fine if people just click the link normally.)

Remember that some Web host services charge by the number of bytes sent out, so if 10,000 people a day download a 2,000,000-byte file from your site, it might start costing you some serious money and overburden your Web server.

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