At 10:49 PM 2/21/2010, Richard & Pat wrote: >I'm learning CSS and converting my website accordingly. I'm at my >wits end trying to figure out why my webpage won't reflect the CSS. >For trouble shooting purposes, I removed the Ancestry code and >external style sheet so only MY external style sheet is listed. >When I check it on the server, the bare html appears with none of my >CSS formating--and the Ancestry banner shows up at the bottom of the >page. >http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mings/2010/index.html =============== Pat, I believe from an earlier post that you are using Dreamweaver to develop your site. While I do not use the program, I do believe that if you have created an actual website on your hard drive that when you publish the site to the server it will be published with all the supporting files to the place on the server you indicate. As others have said, the RW banners are loaded from the server to your page when it is called by someone visiting your site. The banner code should not be on the pages on your hard drive unless you have saved them from the server. I cannot imagine that DW did not insert the basic tags you need for a page so you may have deleted some of them. doctype statement <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> </body> <html> The link to your style sheet must include the correct path and the style sheet needs to be uploaded with the pages. File names - inlcuding those of images - should NOT have spaces. I recommend using a hyphen rather than underscore. Why? prettyredflower.jpg is seen as all one word. pretty-red-flower.jpg is seen as three words. If the file name uses an underscore and is a link, it is difficult to see the underscore. http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pasher/basichtml.htm Also for html and css http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp I would also change what you have in the <title>index.html</title>. Use something meanful for the page. Pat ---------- Pat Geary, Microsoft MVP - Expression Web We discuss FrontPage and Expression Web http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/frontpage/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/expression-web/ http://www.expression-web-tutorials.com/ Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web EBook Revised to include EW 3.0 http://frontpage-to-expression.com/