1. Go to your netfiles page at UIUC (everybody has one): https://netfiles.uiuc.edu
2. Click the upload button and find your mixed and finished file and upload it to your netfiles account.
3. Once you file is uploaded, you will need to indicate that the file can be shared by other people, this action will create a unique address that will allow you to post that file on your blog.
4. Click in the box next to your file so that a check mark appears, then click on the share button in the top menu.
a. You don’t need to worry about specific users, you want it to be shared with anyone, so click next through the first screen
b. Select the circle that says public/view, then click finish
c. Once you have changed the share status of your file, it should say “everyone” in the “shared to” category in the menu.
d. Select the file again and select manage/summary in the top menu.
e. The unique link address to your file is found next to “Full URL”
5. Once you have your unique link address, you will use this html tag to post a link to your file on your blog:
<a href="http://www.address.com">link</a>
(If I were you I would get very familiar with this line of code. It comes in VERY handy in lots of situations.)
6. Your link address replaces the http://www.address.com in the line of code (make sure to keep the quotation marks!) and where the word link is, you can write what word or phrase you would like the link on your page to appear as, likely the title of your audio project.
7. On your blog, and after you have written up your post, click on the “Edit HTML” tab. You will see the same text from your post. Take your competed line of code and insert it where you would like the download link to appear.
8. That’s it! You can always go in and change your post after your link is active. I like to click back over to the "compose" tab to do my editing, but you don’t have to.
9. You can follow this same procedure to link to any file in your netfiles—.doc, .pdf, .mp3—whatever!
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