I would like to offer a means by which my clients could retrieve their mp3's from my website after I have produced them. I currently email the files to them individually, however, file size is an issue on occasion.

I would like to have a page where the client may log in and it would take them to their available audio files (only theirs) and make it easy for them to download.

At times, a script is also available and if I could combine the two in a single download this would be great.

I have CC FTP to upload the files to my host server and I have the website access manager and assume that this would work for requiring a log in, but was not sure of the best way to post the files for download.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hiya Michael,

Actually you have the best tools in your possession for this job. What you need to do is just create a login and a website page for each person that you are working with.

The page doesn't have to be much and you can very easily create a template that you can copy to make each page with so you don't have a whole lot of coding to do then. All the coding that would be needed then would be to put the links to the programs/files you want the person to download onto the page and that would be it. You could further customize each page for your customer with their names to give it a personal touch as well as giving yourself more feedback as to who belongs to what page etc.

Then just create the account in the Website Access Manager for the person that goes with that page and set it up with a login and password for them and email it to them and tell them what to do to get their files.

Some sites that do this offer to host the file for a certain amount of time, and you could actually work in a paid subscription setup for hosting the files for X amount of time for them or you can give them X amount of time to download their files before the page is removed, or whatever situation works for you.

Hope that helps and ask away if you need more info

Thanks Jo Ann! I visited your sites and they are quite nice...I may have some questions on your menus as I've had a difficult time getting my menus to play nice. More on that late...

For now, thanks for the reply!

Michael

You're quite welcome Michael,

I use an external program for my menus other than the shop menu which of course is built within the shopping cart creator itself. I just use the other program then to match them up. I'll be doing a CSS menu soon for my site external pages and the program I use for that also has that capability just recently added so I must play with it a while and see how that works. I haven't worked much with CSS menus at all so this should be interesting

I've not worked with the CSS either although I'm sure I'll migrate in that direction. Thanks for the info on the menus...I'm a huge CC fan and use many of their products (I own over half of them). However, I would like to have more flexibility with the flash menu. I don't have the knowledge base to do the programming from scratch, but I'm still learning!

Cheers and have a great day!!

If your clients are able to use it (believe me I have some who would not) then FTP would be a good solution as well. just put a client file in a given folder and set up their ftp login to access only that folder. and you don't even have to make a webpage. I don't know of coffeecup ftp is free that you can suggest it to clients, but filezilla is the program I use for ftp.