Hantsweb Technical Guidelines
Document downloads
To make a document in Excel, PDF or Word available to download, firstly create your document and save as usual. Then upload the document on to the server using FTP.
When making a PDF document available for download you must remember to create a link to Adobe Acrobat Reader. This allows the user to download the software they need to view the PDF document.
Make sure you place a prominent link on the web page indicating the availability of the document to be downloaded. Depending on how the users browser is configured, the document will either open directly in the browser window or they will be prompted to 'save file' (the user then saves the file to their hard disk).
Example: Download this Word document.
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