diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a76c0a5..c201b17 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Most of the variables found here are used in the .html files found in `_includes
 
 #### Owner/Author Information
 
-Change your name, and avatar photo (200x200 pixels or larger), email, and social networking urls. If you want to link to an external image on Gravatar or something similiar you'll need to edit the path in `head.html` since it assumes it is located in `\images`.
+Change your name, and avatar photo (200x200 pixels or larger), email, and social networking urls. If you want to link to an external image on Gravatar or something similiar you'll need to edit the path in `head.html` since it assumes it is located in `/images`.
 
 Including a link to your Google+ profile has the added benefit of displaying [Google Authorship](https://plus.google.com/authorship) in Google search results if you've went ahead and applied for it.
 
diff --git a/theme-setup.md b/theme-setup.md
index b64f55a..e883707 100644
--- a/theme-setup.md
+++ b/theme-setup.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Most of the variables found here are used in the .html files found in `_includes
 
 #### Owner/Author Information
 
-Change your name, and avatar photo (200x200 pixels or larger), email, and social networking urls. If you want to link to an external image on Gravatar or something similiar you'll need to edit the path in `head.html` since it assumes it is located in `\images`.
+Change your name, and avatar photo (200x200 pixels or larger), email, and social networking urls. If you want to link to an external image on Gravatar or something similiar you'll need to edit the path in `head.html` since it assumes it is located in `/images`.
 
 Including a link to your Google+ profile has the added benefit of displaying [Google Authorship](https://plus.google.com/authorship) in Google search results if you've went ahead and applied for it.
 
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ To make things easier I use LESS to build So Simple Theme's stylesheets. If you
 // --------------------------------------------------
 @body-color         : #ebebeb;
 @text-color         : #333;
-@base-color       : #343434;    
-@comp-color       : spin(@base-color, 180); 
+@base-color         : #343434;    
+@comp-color         : spin(@base-color, 180); 
 @border-color       : @base-color;
 @white              : #fff;
 @black              : #000;
@@ -164,4 +164,4 @@ This theme is free and open source software, distributed under the [GNU General
 
 If you'd like to give me credit somewhere on your blog or tweet a shout out to [@mmistakes](https://twitter.com/mmistakes), that would be pretty sweet.
 
-[^1]: Used to generate absolute urls in *sitemap.xml*, *feed.xml*, and for canonical urls in *head.html*. Don't include a trailing `\` in your base url ie: http://mademistakes.com. When developing locally remove or comment out this line so local css, js, and images are used.
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+[^1]: Used to generate absolute urls in *sitemap.xml*, *feed.xml*, and for canonical urls in *head.html*. Don't include a trailing `/` in your base url ie: http://mademistakes.com. When developing locally remove or comment out this line so local CSS, JS, and image assets are used.
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