"Blogging help required - how do I provide stuff to download." Topic

Hi people,

Some of you will know and hopefully have visited Yarkshire Gamer which has been running nicely for 18 months, this week I appear to have hit a gap in my computing knowledge.

I want to put a set of my rules (Naval) playsheets, ship cards etc on the blog providing them as free downloads from a link on the relevant page. I just don't know how, where are the files stored, do I need any virus protection with people downloading stuff, I just haven't got a clue. Files will be word docs with one or two pics not big by modern standards.

Any help gratefully accepted, thanks in advance.

Regards, Ken
yarkshiregamer.blogspot.co.uk

Ken, I do similar and opened a Dropbox account. My files are stored in dropbox and for each file you can create a link that will allow you to share THAT file with others.

So, a person goes to your blog, sees the link and then gets the file downloaded.

Dropbox always invites the downloader to join, but you can close down that screen and then just hit the download button. i.e. you do not need a Dropbox account to download files …. only to upload.

A suggestion would be to convert your files to PDF, including text documents that contain pictures and then upload the PDF's to Dropbox. Separate Photo's can just be JPEGS and again uploaded.

Every single file you upload will have an option to share it, Dropbox just generates a random link name for you to paste into your blog.

Just by way of example, look at this page and try one of the downloads, perhaps the game markers would be the best example.

LINK – link

Not sure if this is current, but: link

"In the create link area from within the WYSIWYG block, there is an option to upload a file (like a PDF)"

No need for you to worry about virus protection when people are just downloading your files (unless you want to scrub the files to protect _them_!).