Use relative filenames whenever possible

This option is useful for those authors who mirror a web site on their hard drive for development. For example, my site lives at:

http://members.home.net/robstef/

I have a copy of the web site on hard drive in the directory:

c:\HTML Edit\Sites\Latest\

All directories and filenames above the initial start directory are exactly the same on my hard drive and the web server.

If the file I am working on is c:\HTML Edit\Sites\Latest\feedback.html and I want to insert an image tag the SRC attribute being c:\HTML Edit\Sites\Latest\images\wrench.gif then the image tag would appear as:

<IMG src="images/wrench.gif">

The relative path option takes the source html file path and the image path from which it returns a relative path that will function on both my local drive and the web server. This method also allows the author to move the site from one server to another painlessly without having to change file references.