Completely new to this, please help! (Building a web page)?

Question

Below is my file as it appears in notepad. However, when opening it in explorer, the only thing that seems to have worked is the title "HTML Makes the Web Go Round" which is showing on the tab. Everything else is just a blank screen. What have I done wrong? Please don't laugh at me. Like I say I'm completely new.


"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtm11/DTD/xhtm11-transitional.dtd">







style="color: white;
background-color; teal;
font-size: 1.2;
font-family: sans-serif">

Hello World!

We sincerely believe that basic HTML knowledge is essential to designing, building, and maintaining readable and workable Web pages. Our goal in this book is to explain what HTML, XHTML, and CSS are and how they work, and then to show you exactly how to use them to best advantage.

Along the way, we will examine the principles and best practices that govern Web page design and construction, and help you understand how to make your content accessible to the broadest possible audience.

By the time you work your way through this book's contents, you should feel comfortable with creating and managing your own Web site. You should also understand what it takes to identify your audience, communicate with that audience, and keep your content fresh and interesting to keep them coming back for more.

Sincerely,

Jeff Noble and Ed Tittel, your humble authors

Answer 1

Ok just to let you know I myself finished a set of html tutorials from thenewBoston and he helped me learn it very easily... basically your problem is you put you style in the body parameters......but you should use CSS and put it under the head as style tags...again all learned from thenewBoston tutorials...and another thing, html ignores your white space. I don't know if you want your sincerely, Jeff.. to be on separate line but if you do you will want to add two
tags or break. Also you have some careless errors but so do I so its ok...for example when you put the background-color; teal; it has to be background-color : not ;...

Here is a rewritten code....but may I ask why you are making a webpage for html and css?




"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtm11/DTD/xhtm1…

Hello World!

We sincerely believe that basic HTML knowledge is essential to designing, building, and maintaining readable and workable Web pages. Our goal in this book is to explain what HTML, XHTML, and CSS are and how they work, and then to show you exactly how to use them to best advantage.

Along the way, we will examine the principles and best practices that govern Web page design and construction, and help you understand how to make your content accessible to the broadest possible audience.

By the time you work your way through this book's contents, you should feel comfortable with creating and managing your own Web site. You should also understand what it takes to identify your audience, communicate with that audience, and keep your content fresh and interesting to keep them coming back for more.

Sincerely,







Jeff Noble and Ed Tittel, your humble authors

Answer 2

The error here is a ; where a : should be after background-color. Specifically change




style="color: white;

background-color; teal;

font-size: 1.2;

font-family: sans-serif">



to




style="color: white;

background-color: teal;

font-size: 1.2;

font-family: sans-serif">

Answer 3

Chris has the correct answer, also, you could simplify the tag because this is only a "Hello World" webpage. (To keep your font and style this is correct)







But what you have is fine, just change the ";" (semicolon after background-color) to a ":" (colon).



Then it works fine.

Answer 4

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