The option "Output directory for HTML files" along with "Output file name" determine the location of the output HTML file (containing the menu) being generated. Please note that if you choose the command "Menu / Generate Menu / Copy & Paste Code" from program's menu, these settings will be ignored since it will be up to you to copy and paste the output menu code into one of more web pages. Please also note that if you are inserting the menu into a frameset configuration (see question "How can I create a menu which will work across frames?"), the output location determined by these two settings will point to the web page into which the top-level menu bar will be inserted (this is not the location of the frameset page but only of a specific frame).

No matter how you integrate the menu with your web pages, you will need to set two options which will determine where DHTML Menu Studio will save images and JavaScript files as well as how these files will be accessed in HTML code. The option "Output directory for menu files (images and scripts)" can be any directory on disk. The option "Menu files directory" should be set to an HTTP path such as "http://www.mydomain.com/menufiles" or simply "/menufiles" but it is important that the images and scripts generated by the program can be actually accessed from this location (directory) on the web server. Please note that when generating for local / CD-ROM targets, you can also set this to a relative path such as "menufiles" or "../menufiles" but you should realize that relative paths are dangerous since you will only be able to insert menus (in relative directories configuration) residing in a single directory on disk.