Nivo Slider not working on Laravel-5 - laravel-5

Question

I followed this guide and loaded everything. Everything so far works, but the background url doesn't seem to work on any css file. I am adding my source code. I've researched about 50 posts, but neither one discuss about how to get this right.
My code. I've tried both (../images and (/images and they don't work.
.theme-default .nivoSlider {
position:relative;
background:#fff url(../images/loading.gif) no-repeat 50% 50%;
margin-bottom:10px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 5px 0px #4a4a4a;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 1px 5px 0px #4a4a4a;
box-shadow: 0px 1px 5px 0px #4a4a4a;
Files are in /images/loading.gif

Answer 1

Add these links into page head
{!! HTML::style('css/default.css') !!}
Copy these files to /css/js and link them to your page:
{!! HTML::script('css/js/jquery.nivo.slider.js') !!}
{!! HTML::script('css/js/jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js') !!}
Then copy this into index page or view :
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="slider-wrapper theme-default">
<div id="slider" class="nivoSlider">
<img src="../images/toystory.jpg" data-thumb="../images/toystory.jpg" alt="" />
<img src="../images/up.jpg" data-thumb="../images/up.jpg" alt="" title="This is an example of a caption" />
<img src="../images/walle.jpg" data-thumb="../images/walle.jpg" alt="" data-transition="slideInLeft" />
<img src="../images/nemo.jpg" data-thumb="../images/nemo.jpg" alt="" title="#htmlcaption" />
</div>
<div id="htmlcaption" class="nivo-html-caption">
<strong>This</strong> is an example of a <em>HTML</em> caption with
a link. </div>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(window).load(function() {
$('#slider').nivoSlider();
});
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-36251023-1']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'jqueryscript.net']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>