can anyone help me? i uploaded my webpage with angelfire and i tried using the .htaccess thing... i uploaded it to my website directory but it still doesn't work can somebody tell me exactly where i should put it?

it's possible- and probable- that angelfire does not support .htaccess. most free hosts do not. if they don't you're out of luck unless you want to switch hosts and attempt to find one that does.

am i supposed to upload it to the exact location that i uploaded my HTML document to?

you would just upload it to whatever directory you want it to affect- so if you have all your image files in your main directory / and you used the code to prevent direct linking, you would put it there, and it will affect that directory and all subdirectories of it.

so usually, yes- it would go in the same folder.

I don't think that Angelfire supports .htaccess

HTH