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John Gu
John Gu
302 Points

The code in my Workspace doesn't look right. What should I do?

I'm following along on the build my own website course. I can't figure out what in my code is broken. All I see is,

Index of/ and Css/ Images/

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>John Gu|Future Technologist</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize-3.css"> <style> footer { Color: green; } </style> </head> <body> <header> <a href="index.html"> <h1>John Gu</h1> <h2>Future Technologist</h2> </a> <nav> <ul> <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li> </ul> </nav> </header> <section> <ul> <li> <a href="Images/numbers-01.jpg"></a> <img src="Images/numbers-01.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with Color and texture</p> </li> <li> <a href="Images/numbers-02.jpg"></a> <img src="Images/numbers-02.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with Color and texture</p> </li> <li> <a href="Images/numbers-06.jpg"></a> <img src="Images/numbers-06.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with Color and texture</p> </li> <li> <a href="Images/numbers-09.jpg"></a> <img src="Images/numbers-09.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with Color and texture</p> </li> <li> <a href="Images/numbers-12.jpg"></a> <img src="Images/numbers-12.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with Color and texture</p> </li> </ul> </section> <footer> <a href="http://twitter.com/John_Guuu"> <img src="Images/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo"></a> <a href="http://facebook.com/JohnGu"> <img src="Images/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo"></a> <p>Ā© 2015 John Gu.</p> </footer> </body> </html>

rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points

If you share your current workspace using snapshots, we should be able to help figure out what's wrong.

You can share your workspace with us using the snapshot button that looks like a camera in the upper right of your workspace. If you post the resulting link here on the forums, we'll be able to see a current version of your code and file structure.

2 Answers

That usually means that your index.html is not in the top folder. You probably mistakenly placed it in a subfolder. Check that and if you still have problems send a link with the photo icon in the upper right corner of the workspace.

I've also seen this occur if index.html is not lower-cased. For example, Index.html will cause this problem.

John Gu
John Gu
302 Points

http://port-80-g3b6lo9eua.treehouse-app.com/

Here is my latest snapshot of my workspace.

That is not a shapshot. Go to workspaces and click the camera icon in the upper right. Then follow the steps and copy the URL from that to post here.