maybe i am carrying coal to newcastle with this posting, but probably only few know that there is a close relationship between the preferences of a site and the antville macros in skins...

when editing a skin you can refer to most of the preferences as set-up on the preferences page by using a macro of the form

<% site.preference_name %>

Embedding uploaded files is done with the file-macro, which can look like this:

<% file name="myFirstFile" %>

Unlike the image handling of antville the way a file is displayed is determined by a skin (a file's "main" skin per default) that you can modify as you wish (just because you can add a "description" text to your files which can be displayed if you want to).

There is one special thing: antville counts the number of requests for a file. In default configuration antville displays the click-counter just in the list of the file-pool, but you can embed this counter also in the "main" skin (so that all visitors of your weblog can see how "popular" a file is).

As with images antville also let's you embed a file that was uploaded in another weblog. To do so, simply use the alias of the other weblog followed by a slash before the name of the file, i.e.:

<% file name="project/ifeelgood" %>

Please mind that the display of a foreign file is determined by the "main" skin of the other weblog, not the one that you defined for your weblog.