diff --git a/pylons_app/templates/base/base.html b/pylons_app/templates/base/base.html
--- a/pylons_app/templates/base/base.html
+++ b/pylons_app/templates/base/base.html
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
-    <link rel="icon" href="${c.staticurl}hgicon.png" type="image/png" />
+    <link rel="icon" href="/images/hgicon.png" type="image/png" />
     <meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow"/>
     <title>${next.title()}</title>
     ${self.css()}
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     <div id="powered-by">
         <p>
         <a href="http://mercurial.selenic.com/" title="Mercurial">
-            <img src="${c.staticurl}hglogo.png" width="75" height="90" alt="mercurial"/></a>
+            <img src="/images/hglogo.png" width="75" height="90" alt="mercurial"/></a>
         </p>
     </div>
 
