Pop-up & Stay up

I am trying out Xara, and from what I am experiencing this is a definite buy for me. I have no graphics or web design experience but Xara, this forum, the Xara Xone and the video tutorials make it a lot easier to learn.

I followed the Xara Xone Workbook on web site creation and I am now trying to create one of my own with a few extras.

I inserted a picture (that's easy) and would like to show a title and a short description when you mouse over and the same picture & title with a long description when you click on the picture or the short description or the word "More..." (i.e. a link) ending the short description.

The other feature is a download link. How can I put in a link that will cause a file (e.g. a product brochure) to be downloaded (or uploaded) when clicked.

Can anyone help?

Thank you

Laurent

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Originally Posted by ldup

The other feature is a download link. How can I put in a link that will cause a file (e.g. a product brochure) to be downloaded (or uploaded) when clicked.

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For the web address link to an object or text, just type the URL to the resource (file) you want as the download. eg; http://www.myhost.com/files/brochure.pdf

Thank you sledger.

I am still testing the pages locally. So I used "file:///c:/test.pdf" as the URL. It works. What will happen when I upload the web site to the web server? Do I need to use a URL like "http://www.mysite.com/files/test.pdf" Could it be an URL that is relative to the page being viewed.

Usually the web site is located on the host server in a folder named "public_html" If I create a sub-folder named "files", how can I point to files stored in that folder. Could I also reference files stored under "public_ftp" (same hierarchy level as public_html)?

Thank you

Laurent

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Originally Posted by ldup

If I create a sub-folder named "files", how can I point to files stored in that folder.

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In the Web address box type: files/brochure.pdf
If you include the link in pages that are NOT in the root (/public_html/) then you need to change this to ../files/brochure.pdf
The double-dot+slash ( ../ ) is so that referrence is from the domains public_html root first.

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Originally Posted by ldup

Could I also reference files stored under "public_ftp" (same hierarchy level as public_html)?

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No - you'd likely need to setup FTP username/password logins to use this.