Links when uploading

oHi i'm new to web design and am just wondering i have my site made and my links go as following

<li id="active"><a href="Index.html">Home</a></li> 

<li><a href="Lakes.html">Where to Fish</a></li>

<li><a href="specimenfish.html">Specimen Fish</a></li>

<li><a href="gallery.html开发者_开发技巧">Gallery</a></li>

<li><a href="Prebait.html">Pre Bait</a></li>

do i need to change them to site name .com when uploading to hosting site example below

<li><a href="www.sitename.com/Lakes.html">Where to Fish</a></li>

Specimen Fish

Thanks all

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you don't need to change them as long as they are in the same folder

same folder
<li><a href="Lakes.html">Where to Fish</a></li>

next folder
<li><a href="folder_name/Lakes.html">Where to Fish</a></li>

one folder up
<li><a href="../Lakes.html">Where to Fish</a></li>

inside folder which is in one folder up
<li><a href="../folder_name/Lakes.html">Where to Fish</a></li>

direct URL (if you want link to a file from certain folder on your server and it's too complex to do it with the previous examples - or if you want to link to file from another server)

<li><a href="http://www.servername.com/folder/Lakes.html">Where to Fish</a></li>

hope it helps you

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As long as your links (gallery.html, prebait.html, etc.) are in the same directory as the file containing those links, you're fine. It's called a relative URL - you don't need to specify the entire URL; you're navigating based on a shared parent directory.

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use http:// at first of href, it means :

<li><a href="www.sitename.com/Lakes.html">Where to Fish</a></li>

must change to :

<li><a href="http://www.sitename.com/Lakes.html">Where to Fish</a></li>