diff --git a/Backends.md b/Backends.md
index bb7ef03..d3fd261 100644
--- a/Backends.md
+++ b/Backends.md
@@ -106,6 +106,14 @@ Change your `backend.http` configuration to also include the widgets that you wa
 backend.http:
     port: 8008
     websocket_port: 8009
+
+    # resource_dirs allows you to expose the content of some absolute directories on your
+    # filesystem as static elements through the webserver under the <BASE_URL>/resources URL.
+    # In the example below, the files under ~/Dropbox/Photos/carousel will be accessible through
+    # http://localhost:8008/resources/carousel
+    resource_dirs:
+        carousel: ~/Dropbox/Photos/carousel
+
     dashboard:                  # Your dashboard configuration
         background_image: https://some/background.png  # Background image
         widgets:                # Widgets configuration
@@ -117,9 +125,10 @@ backend.http:
                 columns: 3      # 3 columns on the first row
             image-carousel:     # Photo carousel
                 columns: 6      # 6 columns on the second row
-                images_path: /static/resources/Dropbox/Photos/carousel  # Path to scan for pictures, relative to
-                                                                        # the backend/http path
-                refresh_seconds: 15                                     # Time between two pictures
+                images_path: ~/Dropbox/Photos/carousel  # Path to scan for carousel pictures.
+                                                        # It must be a subdirectory of at least
+                                                        # one item of resource_dirs.
+                refresh_seconds: 15                     # Time between two pictures
             rss-news:           # News from your RSS feeds
                 # Requires backend.http.poll to be enabled with some
                 # RSS sources, and configured to write items to sqlite db