Link to files in iWeb

Newbie to iWeb! I have created a site in iWeb, and want to create links to pages (.htm) generated by another program (Reunion). When I try to create the links I can't get iWeb to bring up the "linked" page. I've tried using link to file (clearly wrong) and link to external page, without success. If this should be possible in iweb, how to do it please? Where should my "external" pages be located?
Thanks.

Where should my "external" pages be located?
Welcome to the discussions. They should be published to a server. "External page" is the option to use. ...Does the URL you're trying to enter into iWeb's Link inspector work if you enter it into a browser's address bar? ...If not, it's not going to work in iWeb either.
Did you check the "Make hyperlinks active" box? If you do that, you should be able to click on the hyperlinked element and go to that page. If you haven't checked that box, the hyperlinked element won't become active until you've published the page and clicked on the element in a browser.

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I tried some of iWeb yesterday, I don't have a .mac, so I publish to a folder, but it seems it can only inter-connect pages created in itself only.
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I tried to publish to a folder first, then put the pdf file in the folder just created by iWeb, then make a link to the pdf file in iWeb. But if publish again, iWeb will remove anything not created by iWeb from the folder, so the pdf file I just put in disappears.
Does anybody how to solve this problem?
and btw, how do I myself manage the folder structure when publishing, I don't like iWeb put everything in one folder.
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How can you put PDF files into iWeb so people can download and print them. (I am a teacher and want my students to be able to download my notes.)
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In general, you can hyperlink a file by setting it up in iWeb Inspector's Link tab as "Link To: A File. The following video tutorial shows an example of a PDF document being linked for downloading, but it can alternatively be an MP3 or other file:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/web/iweb08.html#tutorial=nav
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A PDF hyperlinked in iWeb as "A File" will open in the current browser window/tab. At the bottom of this test page (not mine) there are a couple of text links to PDFs — click on them and see what happens...
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I'm new to mac and this discussion board has been very helpful. I hope Apple includes a way to embed windows file. There are too many PCs out there to ignore.
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I choose to ignore Windows use until I need to fire up my PC. I don't create files for WMP format, either.
You are leaving out some import "steps" when you say "drop in the html code" because this requires post-publishing edits with a plain text editor.
And the code shown is now out of date as Microsoft "change the rules" (again) for ActiveX content.
This page code would generate an ActiveX alert dialog asking the viewer what to do. Many viewers just click "No" and move on.

Adding files to iWeb site using .mac

Hi
Apologies if this has been answered before but I would like to achieve the following:
I have an iWeb site published to a .mac account. I would like to add links to other files such as m3u or qtl playlists and host the mp3/mov files somewhere else in my .mac account. I have read a little about using the idisk feature to achieve this. What's the best way of proceeding?

which means you have to put any file or folder linked to in this way inside iDisk>Web>Sites??
That's correct.
Presumably that means when you publish any updates out of iWeb it leaves these files/folders alone and only updates what it needs to?
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I tried dragging the icon from the online iDisk window onto the iWeb page, and an anonymous white square did appear but it doesn't seem to be a link to anything, although I suppose to be absolutely sure of that I'd have to upload the site again and test it. I did open the Inspector>Link in iWeb while the little white square was selected, and it did not have the link box checked. If I check the link box in the Inspector, of course I get the dialog asking me to locate what it is we want to link to.
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