Your DBL quotes are weird around the
<span class="greenboldtext">
Paste my version in there.

Heres some pic's..
http://mbrtest.coffeecup.com/ts1.PNG
http://mbrtest.coffeecup.com/css1.PNG

Wow it's actually working now thanks Eric, I will proceed with the lessons

When you use a separate css style sheet you don't have the style code at the top or bottom. That's only for styling placed at the head of the page. So for the separate sheet remove this.


Your style sheet will only have this.

Ok cool, i'm starting to get this Eric, I'm having another problem though, the actual margins, and padding part of the code I am testing and changing around, however they are having no effect on my page, I've uploaded the new code you've shown me, perhaps i'm doing something wrong again ... lol.. i'm trying ot change the margin to like 30px, and the padding to 10px, top left bottom right and all that but it's not letting me.. and one more thing, what about the "#container" code? when will that become of use, because when I <div = "container > </div> it doesn't do anything special even with the #container css written up.. I dont know just a few questions..

This
<div = "container > </div>
should be
<div id="container"></div>

Got it Eric It did work!! But now i've moved on to borders and max heigh / width and all that, can you take a quick look and see what went wrong with my CSS coding? My HTML went back to being text without my box again, borders and max height / width coding is a pain :]