Creating Links inside of Wordpress properly?

Question

I'm trying to create wordpress links using direct links inside of the same wordpress site, say for example...

I would have a <a href="/catagory" >Catagory</a>

I noticed that sometimes, the links might stack on top of eachother on the urlbar when I click on the links from a different page?

say for example it would click on another link then it would turn out to be something like

"www.myWordpressSite.com/catagory/catagory"

Whats the proper way of doing this? Would it be something like <a href=" get home url / link ? "></a>

Answer 1

The first /category is what's called a "category base". You can edit it in Settings, Permalinks page.

The second /category is your cateogry

There are plugin to completely get rid of the category base, search WordPress plugins for "no category base" (that's how the plugin is called, nice, huh?)

EDIT:

Um... now I'm not sure I understand the question now after an edit, but if URLs "stack" then you should make sure that they wither start with a / or with a http:// (or https://)