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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Style the Portfolio

Posted by Robbin Kalaamalho
Robbin Kalaamalho
911 Points

CSS file not loading

I'll start by sending my code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Robbin Kalaamalho | Designer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="CSS/normalize.css">
    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One:400,400i|Open+Sans:400,400i,700,700i,800" rel="stylesheet">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="CSS/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Robbin Kalaamalho</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
        </a>
        <nav>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="index.html" class="Selected">Portfolio</a></li>
            <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
            <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
          </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
        <ul>
          <li>
            <a href="Img/numbers-01.jpg">
              <img src="Img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Playing with blending modes on Photoshop</p>
              </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="Img/numbers-02.jpg">
              <img src="Img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Trying to create an 80s style of glow</p>
              </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="Img/numbers-06.jpg">
              <img src="Img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Tips created using Photoshop brushes</p>
              </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="Img/numbers-09.jpg">
              <img src="Img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p>
              </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="Img/numbers-12.jpg">
              <img src="Img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Creating shapes using repition</p>
              </a>
          </li>        
        </ul>
      </section>
      <footer>
        <a href="https://www.twitter.com/"><img src="Img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter logo"></a>
        <a href="https://www.facebook.com/"><img src="Img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="facebook logo"></a>
        <p>&copy; 2017 Robbin Kalaamalho.</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

/********************
GENERAL
********************/
body {
  font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
}
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}
#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0 5%;
}
/********************
HEADING
********************/
#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;  
}
h1 {
  font-family: 'Changa One' , 'Sans-Serif';
  margin: 15px, 0;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 0.8em;
}
h2 {
  font-size: 0.76em;
  margin: -5px, 0 0;
  font-weight: normal;
}
/********************
NAVIGATION
********************/
nav {
  text-align: center;
  padding: 10px 0;
  margin: 20px 0 0;
}

/********************
FOOTER
********************/
Footer {
  font-size: 0.74em;
  text-align: center;
  padding-top: 50px;
  color: #ccc
/********************
COLOURS
********************/
body {
  background-color: #fff;
  color: #999;
}
header{
  background: #6ab47b;
  border-color: #599a68
}
h1, h2 {
  color: #f1ffff
}
a {
  color: #6ab47b
}
nav {
  background: #599a68
}
nav a, nav a:visited {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a.selected, nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}
footer a:hover {
  color: #fff
}

What it is supposed to look like: http://imgur.com/xzIBa2v

What it looks like: http://imgur.com/KgI6OvS

It was all fine until I got to the part where I add notes to the CSS file and it all just went to trash. Can't figure out what I did wrong?

1 Answer

Robbin Kalaamalho
Robbin Kalaamalho
911 Points

I figured it out! Thanks anyways :D