Ta-dah! You've made it one folder down. Now to go back up, we use the '..' syntax to check the parent folder. With any luck, here's the link back up to the links page. The reason it's "with luck" is because I wrote that from working it out; while the tutorial has code examples, and encourages you to type things out by hand to make sure you have the tactile memory of it, I hadn't read the example yet. I like that it explained WHY the rule is what it is, before showing how it works. That way I could learn it and then "experiment" by making the link myself, instead of copying it out. The only thing I got wrong was I forgot the closing quotation tag, which I caught that by reading it and the example code next to each other. This means I know that I actually understood the rule of "two periods means parent folder" AND got to see that I need to put some more effort into remembering closing quote tags for links.
Using the UTF-8 character set means this isn't as vital as I thought! It's still important, and I'm preserving my initial reaction, but my stess is mostly unfounded! Check out my useful characters page for details on what to do.
Only now do you bring up how to write a proper set of quotation marks. Fuck you. I'm gonna put this front and fucking center, once I'm done contemplating how much I need to go fucking fix. This was the link I was provided to named characters.
This is why I'm writing down my reactions. Because people prioritize what they find important, and opinions often differ.
On the other hand, after calming down from my intense feelings, I now have the A-HAH moment of figuring out (roughly) how Scrivener does its cool export-text-looking-a-different-way thing. But that's about general html stuff, not reserved characters in particular. I probably just needed a bit of time thinking and integrating how this all works. So actually, back to 100% fuck this. Using all the tools available to you to communicate isn't an extra, its the entire point.
...oh. UTF-8 prevents this kind of bullshit. Well kids, today we've all learned an important lesson about what information to share first, and why you need to explain things in context. My deep gratitude to all those who've fought for UTF-8.