Absolute vs relative URLs

Question

I would like to know the differences between these two types of URLs: relative URLs (for pictures, CSS files, JS files, etc.) and absolute URLs.

In addition, which o

Answer 1

In most instances relative URLs are the way to go, they are portable by nature, which means if you wanted to lift your site and put it someone where else it would work instantly, reducing possibly hours of debugging.

There is a pretty decent article on absolute vs relative URLs, check it out.