We should not be using relative paths here. Since the footer is on all pages, if you're on my.jobs/accounts for example, clicking this link will take you to my.jobs/accounts/about. It's better practice to use a reversible url here to provide flexibility. In myjobs/urls.py, define the name argument for the about url. Then, instead of hardcoding the link in the href, you can do "{% url '[whatever you defined in the name arg]' %}". This way, it handles all the relative paths gracefully and we will only have to change the path in urls.py instead of the individual templates.