Some Notations - Slash "/"
Forward Slash "/" or Back Slash "\"?
Folklore has it that Bill Gates introduced the backslash "\" when he wrote the first version of DOS so he would not be sued by the Unix folks. This has been the bane of programmers and users ever since.
Unix and Linux uses the forward slash "/" and 80% of web servers in the world are using Apache which runs on Linux. It's been a long battle, but you can safely use the forward slash whenever you are working with web based materials such as web pages or web programming. Only when you are working in the DOS command window do you need to worry about using the backslash "\".
And if you happen to throw a backslash in there once in awhile, most browsers are very forgiving and will automatically correct things for you.
The slashes tells the system to go into a subdirectory located inside the current directory.
For example, if a web page or file is located in webExplorations (marked here with a green dot) you could access a file in the graphic folder like this:
graphic/myFile.jpg
If you wanted to access a file in the amazon folder from WebExplorations you would use an additional slash to go one level deeper:
graphic/amazon/testing.txt
