I'm not quite sure how to phrase what I am asking here which has made searching for the answer myself really hard. Basically within my public_html folder I have created folder for a separate set of pages. Linking TO this folder is easy, I simply point it to "example-folder/page.html" - but I want to also link from these pages outside to the original files that are not contained in this sub-folder (in the first most public_html). There's seemingly no folder to direct it to - because if I try to link to "index.html" or whatever it will add the sub-folder to the address making it "example-folder/index.html" and obviously that's not where I want to be directing it to. I'm trapped inside this sub-folder.

I'm sure this is a basic question but I don't know the terminology for what I am trying to do. Any help is appreciated.

OK say you had a tree like:

Index.html
|
Folder1 ----- Somefile.html

if you wanted to link to index.html from the somefile.html inside the folder1.

I would do.
<a href="../index.html">Link</a>

The .. means go back / up one.

IE:
go back one folder in the tree.

http://www.communitymx.com/content/a....cfm?cid=230ad

Well that's easy. Thank you very much.

edit: Thank you also, chrishirst.