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Email Marketing Information Create Your Own Transfer
Links
by:
Mark Meshulam
Copyright 2005 Poingo.com
One of the great features of working with the web is the ability to transfer
a file by clicking on a link. As most earthlings know, a link is most often visible as blue underlined text displayed on a website, or on an Hypertext mark-up language email. Links can besides be bestowed as hot spots on an image, or a button which can be clicked.
Sometimes once
we click on links, we are as if by magic
transported to a new web page. Behind the scenes, we are really receiving new files from a web server, and our browser software system is "rendering" the files on our screen according to manual contained in the files.
These new files could be served up by the same web server which served up the previous page, or with equal ease we could be receiving files from a wholly some location, possibly from halfway about the world! Such are the wondrous route of the web.
Other times once
we click on links, we get a some experience. Our browser offers to transfer
a file and with patience
awaits our answer. Once
we accept and possibly tell our browser wherever
to file the download, the web server sends the file to our computer and a transfer
takes place.
The utility of this practicality
is obvious. We don't always want to see the information painted on our screen, sometimes we simply want to use it. Consider a program file as an example.
If I want to share my program with you, I can easily send it to you as an email attachment, but what happens if the file is too large? Chances are, your file attachment could hit a bottleneck somewhere in your, or your recipient's email system and may ne'er
deliver.
However, if I send the file as a download, email system bottlenecks are bypassed and the pipe is wide open. Here's how it works:
1. First, I transfer
my large file to a web server somewhere.
2. Then, I place a transfer
link to that file in my email to my pal.
3. Once
he receives the email, he either clicks on the link or pastes it into the address bar of his browser.
4. He easily downloads the file.
5. He is improbably impressed.
To do this, here is what you wish need:
1. Rights to a web server to host your file - galore web hosting companies offer this.
2. Software system for uploading your file - for starters you can really use Windows Explorer.
3. Cognition of the correct "path", or URL which wish allow your recipient to access the file. This should be accessible from your web hosting company.
The format of the URL wish look like this: http://www.domain.com/downloads/myspreadsheet.xls
Where "domain" is the domain you have registered for your use, which is targeted at a folder on a web server, which has a subfolder named, for example, "downloads". Your example filename, in this case, "myspreadsheet.xls" should match the actual filename exactly. Filenames should not have spaces or odd punctuations.
In case the above steps seem too daunting or labor intensive, there is a software/webhosting package accessible called Personal FTP (www.poingo.com).
The software system uploads your large files to your private webspace on the Personal FTP server, opens a new email, and places a transfer
link onto the email, all in a few clicks. In addition, you get your own subdomain, which not only adds your identity to the link, but besides enhances the dependability of the download.
Just about the author:
Mark Meshulam offers Poingo Productivity Suite, unique & cheap software system which speeds your activity and does it much fun. Includes:
Email reminder system. Create JPGs and PDFs. Edit pictures in Outlook. Do thing
with Hotkeys. http://www.poingo.com
SeeMark's blog, educational ruminations on folk and technology in the work at http://www.poingology.com
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