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Linking to a document on your web server

When you publish a page that contains a linked document, for example, a page that links to a Microsoft document, Contribute copies the document from your desktop to your website. You can easily create links from other pages in your website to the document you copied to your website.

For information about inserting an image that is already in your website, see Using the Insert menu or Image button to add images to a page.

To link to a file in your website:

  1. In your draft, do one of the following to indicate where the link will appear:
  2. Do one of the following to open the Insert Link dialog box:
  3. Under Web address (URL), click the Browse button.
  4. Contribute opens the website home page in the Browse to Link dialog box.


    Browse to Link dialog box

  5. Click the Choose File on Website button.
  6. In the Choose File on Website dialog box, navigate to the file you want to link to.
  7. Tip: Contribute automatically saves a copy of documents you link to, in a folder named Documents on your website.

  8. Click the document to select it, and then click OK.
  9. In the File Download dialog box, click Open to open the page in the browser.
  10. In the Browse to Link dialog box, click OK.
  11. In the Insert Link dialog box, click OK.

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