The Hybridizer's Pal is nothing more than a web page that you view in your browser. While my example is on my web server, you can construct your own and store it on your hard drive by following the steps outlined below. These instructions are for Windows users - sorry but I don't speak 'Mac' :-)

1. Decide which folder on your hard drive you want to use for your Hybridizer's Pal. I like to keep my Pal files in the same folder as my image files but you can create a new folder if you like.

2. If you can un-zip files, use the following link to download the file hypal.zip. Un-zip the 4 files contained into the folder you selected in step 1. Then skip down to step # 7. Otherwise, continue with the next step.

3. Click on the first link (hypal.html) listed below. A separate browser window will open and display the page.

4. In Internet Explorer: click 'View' and then 'Source' from the drop down window. Windows Notepad will then display the HTML source for the page. In Notepad, click 'File' and then 'Save as' from the drop down window. Save the file in the directory you decided on above (use the file name given below for the link you selected).

5. In Netscape (this is a little more difficult): click 'View' and then 'Page source' from the drop down window. Netscape will then display the HTML source for the page. Place your cursor at the very beginning of the text and holding your left mouse button, drag the cursor to the bottom of the text so that all text is highlighted. Then press the 'Ctrl' key and hold while pressing 'c'. Then open Windows Notepad and click 'Edit' and then 'Paste' from the drop down window. The text from Netscape should now be displayed in Notepad. Then click 'File' and then 'Save as' from the drop down window. Save the file in the directory you decided on above (use the file name given below for the link you selected).

6. Follow the same procedure for each of the links so that all 4 files have been saved.
   hypal.html
   hypal_top.html
   hypal_left.html
   hypal_right.html

7. Use Windows Notepad to open the file hypal_left.html. After the first 5 lines, you should see groups of 8 lines (the first line in the group starts with 'Table' and the last line starts with '/TD'). Each group of 8 lines will display a single picture.

8. In the first group, replace (your image file.jpg) with the actual name of your image file. Make sure you leave the quotes (") around the name of the file. Replace (Your cultivar name) with the name of the cultivar matching the image, and replace (your comments) with your own comments (as many as you like). Save the file (click 'file' and then 'save' from the drop down window).

9. Follow the same procedure using file hypal_right.html.

10. Make sure that the image files you entered in both the left and right hypal files is located in the same folder as your hypal files. You can either copy the files into the folder or do as I do and put the 4 hypal files in the same folder as all your images.

11. In Windows Explorer, double click the file 'hypal.html' (make sure you saved files hypal_left.html and hypa_right.html). This should display the Hybridizer's Pal in your browser hopefully with your own images.

    NOTE: If the pictures are too big, you can change the display size by changing the number 400 in the lines IMG src="your image file.jpg" width=400 to a lower number. You can change to any number but either 325 or 250 work well depending on how your display is configured. You can also make the images larger if you like by changing to a larger number.

12. Once you are happy with the image size you can add the rest of the images to each file (hypal_left.html and hypal_right.html). Just copy the 8 line group into the files as many times as you like, changing the cultivar each time.

TIP: If the images will be the same on both sides, add everything into the 'hypal_left.html' file, save it, and then make a copy of it. Change the name of the copy to 'hypal_right.html' and both sides will be the same. (You'll have to delete 'hypal_right.html' prior to changing the name of the copy).