How do I put pdf files on my site

Question

I am making a site for my husband and there are several things (newsletters mostly) that exist as pdf files.  I want to put them on it by having a link to click.  Do I have to make them their own pages and then link to them from the "news" page?  I wouldn't want them in the main site menu.
Or do I need to be looking for more advanced website development software?

Answer 1

All you have to do is make the files hyperlinks in exactly the same way that you would do with normal hyperlinks.
So type in the text that you want and then highlight the text and then go to hyperlink and select hyperlink to a file and then select the file that you want to hyperlink to and it will be set.
The only thing is that you cannot test this link because it will not work until and unless it is published to your host/server - it will not work if you publish to your desktop - it does need to be published to your server.
The other way to link to a pdf document is to upload either a downloads or a documents folder with all your downloads in directly to your server.  If you upload this directly to your server, then you type in your text in the same way and then highlight it, but rather than creating your hyperlink to a file, you would create an external link to your own site and following the file path to your server, so if you uploaded a folder called Documents and then the pdf was called Test.pdf, the the link you create would be http://www.domain.com/Documents/Test.pdf and then this would work in the same way as hyperlinking to a file instead.  You can also test it and it would work even when the site has not been uploaded to your server because the files are already on your server and not waiting to be uploaded.