Thank you for the quick reply. I made the three corrections in the CSS but the index.html does not reflect the code. In fact it seems to ignore it completely, because the text is black and the background is white. I am including both the CSS and the index.html for your comments. TIA.<!--DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"--><html><head><--!My Stylesheet--><style type="text/css">body {background-image: pictures/blackmarble3.gif;font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color: #FFFFCC;link: #33CCFF VLINK: #FF6666;margin: 0em 2em 0em 2em;}h1,h2,h3, h4,{text-align: center;font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;}</style></head></html>*****************************************************************<!--DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"--><html><head><link href="mystyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><title>Welcome to The Coalminers' Site</title></head><h1>Welcome to the The Coalminers' Site</h1><hr><p>On this site you will find information about the Collier family, their roots, history, coat of arms, family trees, photos, and more.</p><p>The site is divided into topics which can be accessed directly from the links at the bottom of each page.</p><p>The pages containing the <b><i>Coat of Arms</i></b> and <b><i>Enlarged Photos</i></b> do not have a footer with the menu links.<br><br>You return to the previous page by clicking the <img src="pictures/backbutton.gif" alt=black> button in the top left corner of the browser window.</p><p align=center>The pages of the site are:<br><a href="index.html">Welcome</a><br><a href="history.html">History</a><br><a href="goodenoughs.html">Goodenoughs</a><br><a href="colliers.html">Colliers</a><br><a href="photos.html">Photos</a><br><a href="familytrees.html">Family Trees</a><br><a href="recipes.html">Recipes</a><br><a href="ceilidh.html">Ceilidh</a><br><a href="fathersday.html">Fathers' Day</a><br><a href="christmas.html">Christmas</a><br><a href="jokes.html">Jokes</a><br><a href="inmemory.html">In Memory</a></p></body></html>
edit: fixed omitted closing code tag and made it codebox due to length of post - skemcin