PDF won't link

[homestead]

Morning

I'm having problems linking a PDF file.
http://www.moomba.co.uk/CheckThis_Offers.html

Seems to want to find file Newsletter%20Summer.pdf even tho it seems to give it a totally different name when i link it (should be Newsletter Summer.pdf) don't understand why it does this.

I linked a pdf map on the find us button and that worked fine, no probs.

Does anyone have an idea why this happens?

cheers

[SoContagious]

Seems to want to find file Newsletter%20Summer.pdf

It’s very simple the “%20” is the html code for a space. So when u write
Newsletter Summer.pdf it automatically converts it to Newsletter%20Summer.pdf

To avoid these things u should just use a – or _ between names “Newsletter_Summer.pdf”.

[admedia]

Any luck?

The pdf doesn't seem to be linked. Link it up (even if it doesn't work) so we can see what is happening. SoContagious is right about the %20 thing, but it should still load the PDF even with a space in the name.

Not sure what stage of design you are in or how your process works... but

As far as the rest of your site goes, the design is ok, but it is not optimized well. You have an 80kb graphic for your homepage. You need to use the 'slice' tool in photshop to slice these graphics down and optimize them appropriately. You realize too that putting all of your text in graphics like this will effectively hide your text from search engine spiders.

I would optimize this site, redo the text in html.... or redo the site in Flash.

My 2 cents.

[homestead]

i've relinked the PDF and works fine.
The site is already live and approved by the client so sceptical about changing things. Thanks all the same anyway. I did consider using HTML text but its so ugly and dull, the client thought the same as well. I realise that the text won't be picked up by spiders but the client was dead set against this.

[admedia]

Yup it works now.

It doesn't have to be HTML text. Flash is one alternative that would keep your font styles and a slimmer file. Also better optimization of the images I think is definitely in order.

Good job though getting the job done.

[homestead]

I think i'll opt for the optimising option seems simpler and less time consuming than having to totally reconstruct, when you say 'slicing' how do I do this in Photoshop. Cheers for the imput.

[admedia]

The Slice Tool allows you to define areas of your graphic and optimize it indepentently. For example areas where you just have text could optimized as 4 or 8 color gif instead of incorporating it into one big high res jpeg.

When you save for web... your slices are saved as individual graphics as defined by your slices. It also creates the html table (if html and graphics option selected when saving) with your slices where they should be.

good luck.