Serving files

I have different types of files for which I just want to put up links and somehow force the browsers to do a download. The standard html would be to use an href. I was hoping to be able to do this via a "resource" since I could then use the resource upload capability to load a file from a browser. I can't seem to be able to do this. I can use a resource to embed an image file for example but that is about it. What about if one justs wants to serve that gif i.e. as a download? I tried unselecting the "embed" option in the resource creation screen but that did not work either. Clicking on the link just puts me back to the resource creation screen. What am I doing wrong? Essentially, I want to provide downloads from the wiki for a variety of files i.e. .pdf, .mid, .zip etc. BTW, I am using VW Smallwiki 1 although resources have been around for quite a while. thanks in advance, -- Charles A. Monteiro