+++ Files
Under the 'Structure' section of Beacon you will see an 'Edit files' option if you have permission. As standard you can upload the following file types to your installation of Beacon:

* JPG: Joint Photographic Experts Group
A standardized image compression mechanism designed for compressing either full-colour or grayscale photographic images, often for use on the Web. JPG is "lossy," meaning that the decompressed image is not quite of the same quality as the original image. 

* GIF: Graphics Interchange Format
Format is a commonly used graphics file format for image files on the Internet. We recommend that you use PNG format which has superseded GIF.

* PNG: Portable Network Graphics bitmap
Designed to be a patent-free successor to the GIF format. Though not designed specifically for the Web, PNG offers particular benefits in this environment such as improved image compression ( 10 to 30 percent smaller than GIFs), two dimensional interlacing, storage of text with the an image making it possible for search engines to gather information and offer subject searching for images in a standard way. 

* TXT: ASCII text file 
File extension that is associated with digital documents created as "text only". Text only documents have no formatting saved with them (ie, no tabs, centring, etc.), but preserve all ASCII-based characters. 

* PDF: Portable Document Format
A file format that has captured all the elements of a printed document as an electronic image that you can view, navigate, print, or forward to someone else. PDFs can be read by any computer without platform conflicts. 

You can change or add standard file types. See the 'customise' section of this guide for more information.

++++ Adding a file
You must observe this installation of Beacons policy on file upload before proceeding.

Press the 'Edit files' button in the administration menu. You will see a list of files and an 'upload file' area. Press the 'Browse' button and navigate to and select the file you wish to upload.  Press the upload button to add the file.

++++ Editing a file 
Press the 'Edit files button in the Structure menu. You will see a list of files. Click the thumbnail image of the file you wish to update. To update the file press the 'Browse' button and navigate to and select the file you wish to upload.  Press the upload button to update the file. To delete the file press the 'delete' button.

Note: any file that you have used in a page will appear as a broken link (no file) after you delete it. Check that you are not using the file first by searching on the file name.

