[georgiadevildog]

Not really sure what you mean by "test out on local hard drive." I'm not much of a programmer; I just went to a site that I know has pop-up links (Nealz Nuze at boortz.com) and read the code for them.

What type of web design software are you using, or are you just writing all the code manually?

If you're using Front Page, I think you can check the links by holding CTRL and clicking them. Don't take that as gospel, though. As I said, I'm not much of a programmer. Probably not even good enough to be called an "amateur."

[Aliska]

Well, I got the answer on another forum but don't completely understand it. You arrange your folders hierarchically and code in the name of the photo and put it in the same folder with the code it goes with, then you can test it on your local drive. They referred to them as something else but are what I would describe as dynamic links; how they get changed to the proper url after you ftp them is beyond me tonight. What am I using? Promise you won't laugh? Netscape Composer. Don't have Front Page, took a few clicks through MS Publisher and didn't like it, so I do the skeleton stuff in Composer, then rename the .html to .txt and make whatever changes I want in WordPad. Then I'm on my own because Composer sometimes can't handle the changes.

Needless to say, that is not the way to go; I got so many suggestions for downloading this and that and I can learn html in a few hours, yeah right, all trying to be helpful. I also got my 3+ inch book I bought years ago now, and it is packed with info, but I never did find the part where you test on your hard drive. Oh they talked a lot about it, just didn't tell you how to set it up that I could find; I got fed up plowing through that mess.

I don't design and code very many websites, don't care to do it once the novelty wore off, keep the flowchart in my head because I used to be a programmer, and now I need to test it with IE, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, and Safari (think this is for Mac which I don't have access to, maybe someone would help me on that if need be), so I'm advised. I do test every link and use both Netscape and IE6. If it works in IE6, it works in Netscape, never had any problem with those two.

I do appreciate all the suggestions and have some good links and ideas. Not all the web pages I've done involve extensive graphics, some are text documents; I'm sure they look amateurish because I really keep them simple. HTML is a pain; I can do quite a bit of normal stuff with it, thanks in part to here, but since I don't use it on a regular basis, I forget the syntax and end up having to go look it up anyway.

And in a few years there will be some new marvel to deal with. Thanks for the help. I got some good tips here and copied and saved the code for tables so pictures don't have to go down the left side of the page with nothing but wasted space to the right. Setting up tables in Composer is pretty straightforward, but you have to use borders, but I never minded. Just loaded the centered table and went on with it.