in putting ms word forms in website

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I have several brochures and application forms that I would like to have
visitors to be able to down load from our website. How do I do that....

please be specific as i am not a seasoned website developer
 
To make a file downloadable, import it into your FrontPage web using the
File | Import File feature after you've already opened your FP web. Then
link to the file as if it were a web page. Some browsers, such as IE, can
recognize the type of document and will launch an appropriate viewer within
the browser. To avoid this you can instruct your viewers to right-click on
the link and select "save target as" to save the file that the link points
to, or the easiest way is to put the file(s) into a .zip file and link to
the .zip file instead. Zip files don't get opened automatically by the
browser so they can be an elegant solution.
 
....but...you'd be better of using PDFs, especially with a form you want
someone to fill out. Because if you've ever filled in a Word form you'll
notice that the user's input totally wacks out your formatting - so you get
back a totally wonky looking form.

You would need a PDF creator like Acrobat (not just the reader) capable of
creating a fillable form (there may be some free pdf creators that can also
do this). You'd print your Word form to the pdf creator and save it, then
open the form with Acrobat and create fillable form fields and then save
that. Then Import the pdf form into your FP web and create a link to it.

You can do the same with your brochures, except you'd not have to create a
fillable form.





|I have several brochures and application forms that I would like to have
| visitors to be able to down load from our website. How do I do that....
|
| please be specific as i am not a seasoned website developer
 
thanks for your help... it worked like a charm - one other question - how
do I get metatags in my website so it gets picked up by the search engines?
thanks - you were a life saver...
Have a blest week
carolann
 
Meta Tags are not used by Search Engines the way the were a decade ago;
Search Engines now search/index your entire site; so it is the actual
content that matters, rather than a 'description' or 'keywords'.

<meta name="keywords" value="keyword1, keyword2, keyword3">
<meta name="description" value="this is a description of your web site">

The above go in the "head" section (look at the "Code" view).

Read this link: http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167931
or Google "Meta Tags" for more info.
 
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