Joshua pets Scout , before nodding to Toxi . Go . <| sep |> There are three styles of link . Relative links are of this form . ... imagespicture . jpg . The problem with this is that you can ' t move things , and everything will have a different path . Trying to link to that image from c o n t e n t productstoyscarshotwheels . html will work fine , but linking from c o n t e n t p r o ductstoysbarbiedreamhouse . html won ' t , because the path is wrong , it has too many . . Managing that stuff is a pain in the ass , not to mention if you move anything you break every link . Absolute paths are another option . If you link to it will work no matter where you are linking from . Solution ! This is how WordPress resolves the problem . Of course . that assumes you ' re on example . com , not working locally , or from a staging server at staging . example . com or you moved servers or . whatever . This can also cause confusion . ie , you change an image and for some reason it doesn ' t update . because you haven ' t uploaded it . The third option is a compromise of these two server root relative . This means your urls are in the form imagespicture . jpg . The leading slash forces it to the base of the domain , and then the path takes on from there . This will work from everywhere , regardless of the path , and because the directories are relative , they can work on any environment without any need to hardcode the actual domain . Is this what you were asking ?