I have just signed up for Hawkhost and spent time on cpanel building my site and everything is done...except I still need to put in hyperlinks to show the goods I'm trying to sell.
Any tips for where to put the photos? I have a few hundred that I want to upload but should I host the photos somewhere else?
The cpanel solution is a little confusing.
So should I muddle my way through it or is there a better solution?

What are you trying to use the photos for ?
From what i have grasped you really have two options:
1. Host the images maybe in an "images" folder in your public_html folder and access them via some url like:
http://yourwebsite.com/images/image.jpg
--> Maybe use this in an image tag in html?
<img src="images/image.jpg" alt="image of my car" />This would obviously be the path to your image from within the piblic_html of from wherever the html file resides in your area.
2. You host the image on some third party host such as photobucket.com
you would use the same sort of method except your image tag may look something like this:
<img src="http://www.photobucket.com/image.jpg" alt="image of my car" />Theres a lot of variation in this as I am not ensure precicely what you are trying to do with these photos or whether you are just asking how to upload them ? post more info and I can maybe help you more...
GL with this,
Dan

here's the application: I'm writing a discription for the item a few words like "pic" will be a hyperlink to the photo.
example 1 and 2 are exactly what I what ( in that order)
as a newbie to all of this I'm not sure where the photo will sit (on my computer?, upload into an internal photo section on my site?, upload them to another site - like you did in example 2?)
just not sure how or where to do this

Ahh ha! I understand what you are doing now.
Well there are really two options as i posted above, except the above html commands will display the image to the user on the webpage. If you wish to provide the user with a hyperlink to the image directly, then you would use something like this:
<a href="images/image.jpg">Link to image</a>
--> obviously "Link to image" would be the text to make into a hyperlink...
As for the location to place these images:
1. Users can not access files located on your computer easily as it requires setting messing on your router...etc This is highly not advised for secuirty purposes. Also, many ISPs will shut you off for using your computer as a server because of bandwidth problems. That leaves the following two options...
2. Uploading the images to a remote host such as photobucket. This option is only advised when you do not have enough space on your own hosting plan / as a last resort if the pictures are to be used from another source...etc
3. Probably the most advised as it causes the least loading times usually! images are usually stored in a folder named "images" in your public_html folder as standard practice as not a compulsary measure, in the cpanel environment. Best uploading option would be via some sort of FTP program like smartFTP (http://www.smartftp.com/).
Hope that provides you with the info you need...
Dan

You can also use the File Manager in cPanel to create a folder and upload images as well. But I agree with Dan that getting a good FTP program and learning how to use it would be your best bet.

I looked at smartFTP but is there anything anywhere that explains what it is? does?
I'm thinking to use the file manager in cPanel for the time being but if this(smartFTP) is a better solution ( and if I can figure out how to use it) I guess I will download it and go at.
again pardon such a newbie question.