Adding a PDF to the website

Owned by Elliott
Last updated: Feb 22, 2023
2 min read

You can add PDFs to your website that can then be viewed and downloaded directly from your website itself.

Step 1 - Uploading the PDF to your VIA software

The first step is to upload the PDF to you VIA software. By uploading a document to VIA, it will generate a RL from which you can access the document

  • Login to VIA

  • Go to Website > Links

  • Click Add

  • Fill in the various fields

    • Name - give your link a unique name. We recommend giving your link a name to make it easier to find in future, for example, “pdf-documents”

    • Visible - tick the box to make your link available online

    • You don’t need to fill out any of the other fields

  • Finally, upload your PDF documents to the media section. Once uploaded, click the box underneath the PDF icon to name your document. We recommend labelling your documents to make them easier to find in future

  • Once they are uploaded, click the magnifying glass icon. This will open the PDF in a new browser tab. Copy the URL link. This is the unique URL to your PDF document.

You can follow the steps above to create a new link for each document you want to, or you can simply add multiple PDF documents to the Media section of one link. We’d recommend the later as it’s more efficient to simply create one Link called “PDF-documents” and upload all your documents and simply name each PDF appropriately.

 

Step 2 - Linking your website to your PDF

Once you have the URL link to your PDF document, there are multiple ways you can link to it on your website by simply using the URL you have just generated.

VIA allows you to add URL links in multiple ways, be that through a simple link contained within your page, or by adding it to your main menu or footer. It’s important to have a good grasp of the basics of VIA to help you add the PDF to your website in exactly the way you want to.

To add it your main menu

If you want to make the PDF available in your website menu, the following guide will help you to understand how to edit your website menu and link through to your document

Creating/editing your website menu using the Links tab

To add it to your footer

If you want to make the PDF available in your website footer, the following guide will help you to understand how to edit your website footer and link through to your document

Creating/editing your website footer

To add it your page

If you want to make the PDF available on your web page, there are multiple ways you can do this. It’s important to understand how the page you want to edit is constructed in order to ensure you can add your PDF to the correct place.

The following guides will help you understand how to best add your PDF. Unfortunately, we can’t provide instructions for each unique way someone might want to add a PDF as each website is built differently. However, by understanding what pages and items are and how they can be used to build your website page, you’ll soon understand how best to link through to your PDF on your website.

Pages, items & links; what they are and how you can use them to build/edit your website

Creating a new website page (simple)

Creating a new website page (advanced)