Images in a WordPress theme or child theme - several methods

gistfile1.html

<!-- in case of problems with displaying the images chmod 777 and chown daemon:daemon -->

<!-- link to media files -->
<p>
 <img src="http://localhost/test/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/cropped-download-1.jpg" width="200" height="*">
<p>
<!-- image in the template folder -->
<p>
 <img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory');?>/images/car.jpg"/ >
</p>

<!-- via CSS -->
<div id="anImage"></div>

<!-- the stylesheet -->
<style>
  #anImage {
    background-image: url(images/car.jpg);
  }
</style>