base_url() in css and js

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A beginning slash means start looking from the web root folder.

/assets = example.com/assets
/subfolder/assets = example.com/subfolder/assets

Should tell you why that didn't work.

There's nothing wrong with having the full URL in links to assets. However it could cause conflicts if you want to implement SSL, which will have a different URL. Depends on how you intend to use the site.