Previous posts

<?php posts_nav_link(' — ', __('&laquo; Previous Page'), __('Next Page &raquo;')); ?> should do what you want.
You can see here here for customisation.

As you predicted, there is a template tag which does this for you.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Next_and_Previous_Links

Looks like it should help, but I use a different ones:

<div class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; previous Entries') ?></div>
<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Next Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
</div>

now where would I place the code for this? *LOL*

Thank you again for the help!

I stuck it in the footer; you all rock!!!!

Thank you very much for helping out an absentminded pregnant chick!! *LOL*

Where you want the next/previous links to appear on your page, in your template’s PHP files.