I have an index.html page that is my homepage, and some other pages that it links to, as a website on my computer's C drive. I am doing this website for a business that has an existing webpage at its domain. I want to keep up the existing site, while using the same domain to test my new pages/site before it becomes the main site for the domain.

Can I set up a subdomain and use it for testing, or how would I do this. I am basically testing links, to make sure they work, and of course images. Also, I need to test on Apple's and various browsers. Thanks for the help.

Setting up a subdomain will be a relativly good test as long as no urls need to be absolute. To do this you need some kind of access to add a subdomain to your web hosting.

where are your files ? are they on a shared server? do u have a control panel? do you have direct access to the web server ?

Cant help you much without a bit more detail ;)

1-- Rename your current index.html to indexBACKUP.html on server and then upload new one and test.. After testing if you want back your old index.html.. Delete new index.html or you can also rename it so indexBACKUP2.html..

and rechange indexBACKUP.html to index.html

I hope you understand.

or simply create a new directory/folder in the main directory and call it TEST... then stick all the new files in the there, then simply visit www.domainname.com/test/index.html (http://www.domainname.com/test/index.html) or whatever... you might also want to password protect the folder just on the off chance it somehow gets indexed by a search engine!!!

depends on how you have done your html really ;) different methods have different limitations