You can either attach the office document (excel or word)
as a plugged in file, or convert the office document to html first and
then attach it. When you just link directly to an office file (.xls ,
.xlsx, docx or .doc ) the person looking at your web site will need to
have the
same program or a higher version or will need a free viewer installed.
In your starter survey, I had you check whether you could view a
powerpoint presentation and asked you to download a viewer if you did
not have it.
(Note: If you use Open Office, you can create .doc and .xls file types
by saving as microsoft office types.)
The following link is to an office document (a powerpoint presentation)
directly, without first converting to html: Power Point.ppt
The following link is to the same office document that has been first
converted to html: Power Point.htm
In your project, you need to have one document that was first converted
to html. To do that, you need to do the following:
In windows explorer:
Put the document into the same folder as your index.
Rename the document to be only one word, just so it is easier
to work
with.
Open the document in word, excel or ppt (Powerpoint 2010 has
removed this option.)
File / save as
(In 2007, you will need to choose either "web page" or "other
formats" and then "web page")
Change the file type to "web page" or "html", but not to
"single file web page"
Close the document (which is very important because office
locks the files so they cannot be transferred to panther.
In windows explorer, open the folder that has your index
Choose view / refresh
See that two new things are in that folder.
- the new .htm file (which as you know holds no pictures)
- a new folder with a similar name to your document
(If you peeked inside that folder, you would see it had all the
pictures that were in your document as individual files, plus a ton of
other stuff.)
Now, you just need to link one of the pages on your site to that
new
page:
open Mozilla
windows / composer
open file and choose index or any other page
type the link words and highlight them and insert / link
Connect to panther by choosing file /
site manager/ and clicking on your site and hitting connect. If your
site is not set up, click here
to see the ftp guide
Change FileZilla's "local site" to
c:\my_public_html
Change FileZilla's "remote site" to
/home/<your account>/public_html. This is Very important.
Drag all files in my_public_html into
public_html (left to right). You will be dragging the new file that
was created by microsoft as well.
In Filezills's remote site, double click
on public_html to be sure that is the folder being displayed. See the
new page and new folder right under public_html.
Click on the link to your project. You may be asked to press
enter to view the page. That is okay. Your document or presentation may
be formatted in a weird way. That is okay also.
Call someone else to look at it (to be sure you don't get any
red x's)