I see that you are a Beekeeper? I have a good friend here in Oklahoma that has Bees and Ostriches. He's a great person. I learn a lot from him everytime I get to go out to his place.
John

Thanks everyone for all the help. I have to leave the office for now and I'll be out of town for a couple of days but I think I can conquer this if I stay on it. For some reason I always have a time of it with new programs... I must not be as smart as I think I am! LOL!
I can't get The HTML Editor to down load for some reason .....so I'm going home and put my feet up!
Again, thanks for everyone's input. You guys are the greatest!

John

Yes, we have about 120 beehives keeping us 'buzzy' during the warm season. No ostriches, though

I opened your site and took a look at the source code, and from what I see, it must be a 'drag-and-drop- programme you are using. Am I right?

But if you look at that source code yourself, you can see a lot of 'inline styles', like in this paragraph:



You see that there are oodles of font tags which probably come from you having changed your mind about the font size a couple of times. If you take those font tags out from this paragraph and put them into its own css file, what remains would be:



... and the rest of it could be stored in the 'styles.css' like this:



The styles.css is linked to the html document by this line in the header section of the html document:



And the styles.css has to be saved at the same location as the html document, of course.

A good excercise for you, once you have studied these code bits, would be to do the same as I did with the remaining paragraphs where you see all those redundant font tags.

John, I too had this problem when I was starting out with css. I don't yet have a great understanding of CSS but what helped me and I'll use several analogies like "CSS is like the salad dressing on s salad" or some such notion.
Now I think of CSS as a tool to enhance different parts of the web page, in some ways it might be looked on as a set of commands called rules to change my statement I am the worlds best potter tp
I am The Worlds best [Potter
If I were to use CSS I could make those words a color, a font of any kind, wrapped in a dotted border in a box with a color and placed anywhere on the page.
A div tag named Wyndham (The salad) has a corresponding CSS rule called #Wyndham (The salad dressing) that tells it what to look like and where to put it

Another food image, we all (mostly) use forks,knives, spoons to eat with but a formal dinner, those untinsels have a formal rule (CSS) to tell the person setting the table where to put each item and when.

Please forgive my overly simple explanations but it has helped me to understand part of CSS.
Wyndham

That's a great way to think about it


I like food analogies. Well, I like anything to do with food

I have found this book to be very handy:
Sams Teach Yourself CSS ...in 10 Minutes by Russ Weakley

http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Teach-Yourse … 0672327457

It's small enough to easily pack in my laptop bag or leave in between coffee cups on my desk so I have it close by as I fumble around in the HTML Editor. Wyndham - I think your table setting analogy is a great way to explain CSS.