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Hyperlink Properties - "Save As"

Jimbo

2004-07-29, 7:15 pm

Hello all,

Is it possible in FP2003 to specify that when a user clicks on a hyperlink,
that the file being opened is "Saved to disk" instead of opening?

We have a fmily website with video of our kids on it and I would rather that
people had to download and watch, rather then have it sucking up bandwidth
streaming from our server.

Is there an EASY way to do this? I am not a big writer of HTML script!

Thanks,

JS

Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FP]

2004-07-29, 7:16 pm

You would need to zip the file and import the zipped file into your web and
create a link to it.

--
~ Kathleen Anderson
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
Spider Web Woman Designs
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/

Jimbo <sorry@nospam.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Is it possible in FP2003 to specify that when a user clicks on a
> hyperlink, that the file being opened is "Saved to disk" instead of
> opening?
>
> We have a fmily website with video of our kids on it and I would
> rather that people had to download and watch, rather then have it
> sucking up bandwidth streaming from our server.
>
> Is there an EASY way to do this? I am not a big writer of HTML
> script!
>
> Thanks,
>
> JS

Mike Mueller

2004-07-29, 7:16 pm

:"Jimbo" wrote
: Is it possible in FP2003 to specify that when a user
clicks on a hyperlink,
: that the file being opened is "Saved to disk" instead of
opening?
:
: We have a fmily website with video of our kids on it and I
would rather that
: people had to download and watch, rather then have it
sucking up bandwidth
: streaming from our server.
***********************************************************
Jimbo-

A couple of things here...
#1 Seeings your video is of a known file type to the
browser, it will try to open it with whatever plugin is tied
to that file type, eg a movie opens with MediaPlayer. The
ways around this are either to provide instructions to right
click and choose save or to zip the file

#2 Downloading the video and streaming will use the same
amount of bandwidth. The only way to reduce that is to zip
it

Mike

Jimbo

2004-07-29, 7:16 pm

Thanks Kathleen - that is what I will do. At the moment the video just open
in WMP and play. Iw ill zip them and try it - but -

Another issue has popped up.

The videos just added (still unzipped) are now requiring a username/password
to open. PLease note that our family website does not allow anonymous
access - so users of our "domain" are required to log in before the site
loads. We did this due to our ISP not allowing anonymous access to servers
on the network.

We run SBS2003 and this HTML website is NOT a sharepoint site - but is the
default HTTP site now on the server. This should NOT matter, because all
photo galleries (some new today also) and new web pages load and operate
perfectly. This is ONLY happening with the videos.

What must I change?

Thanks

JS

"Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FP]" <spiderwebwoman@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> You would need to zip the file and import the zipped file into your web
> and
> create a link to it.
>
> --
> ~ Kathleen Anderson
> Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
> Spider Web Woman Designs
> http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/
>
>
> Jimbo <sorry@nospam.com> wrote:
>

Jim Buyens

2004-07-29, 7:16 pm

Howdy.

Please refer to:

Offering Files for Download
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/ti...how.aspx?tip=27

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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>-----Original Message-----
>Hello all,
>
>Is it possible in FP2003 to specify that when a user
clicks on a hyperlink,
>that the file being opened is "Saved to disk" instead of
opening?
>
>We have a fmily website with video of our kids on it and
I would rather that
>people had to download and watch, rather then have it
sucking up bandwidth
>streaming from our server.
>
>Is there an EASY way to do this? I am not a big writer
of HTML script!
>
>Thanks,
>
>JS
>
>
>.
>