Attaching images to my web-page

[eluser]2mato[/eluser]
Hello there I am trying to attaching images to my first CodeIgniter web-page :-), I am using this :

1- In config.php I configer the base url as shown ===>
$config['base_url'] = "http://localhost/ci/";

2- when adding an image to a view file i do like this ===>
<img src='&lt;?php echo base_url(); ?&gt;images/login_icon.gif'/>

What I am asking do i have to echo the base_url every time i want to add image or is there a better way to do that, Thanks.